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Belgian Security Arrest Islamists Planning Multi-Location Attack
March 29, 2023
Security authorities in Belgium made multiple arrests in Brussels and Antwerp of individuals identified as Islamists, on suspicion of planning a terrorists attack on multiple locations in the European country.
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Muslim Brotherhood Uses Globalized Western Position to Propagate Anti-Western Mission
March 29, 2023
The Muslim Brotherhood’s (MB) position as “the mothership of the Islamist movement” has been consolidated by an unwavering commitment to core mission and a globalizing strategy that uses embeddedness in European and Western Hemisphere countries, operating under the guise of autonomous, but interconnected networks of cultural and educational institutions and advocacy groups, to carry out violent operations that destabilize the West and to promote sustained activities that corrode the cohesion do Western societies from within.
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Jihadists Expand Operations Amongst Great Power Competition
March 29, 2023
The diverse Islamist extremist groups constituting the international jihadist ecosystem are taking advantage of the current moment of intensifying Great Power competition among the United States, Russia, China, and Europe to expand theatres of operations on regional and continental peripheries to the Great Powers, evidenced in jihadist groups’ intensified recruiting, financing, and violent activities in Africa and Central Asia.
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Independent Review of Britain’s Flagship Program to Prevent Extremism & Terrorism Shows Flaws in Approach to Countering Islamism
March 29, 2023
The recently released review report evaluating the British government’s flagship program, Prevent, whose mission is countering extremism and terrorism, revealed deep flaws in the program’s approach to understanding and responding to Islamist extremist ideas, organizations, and practices.
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IS Keeps Killing in Syria With Latest Attacks on Truffle Hunters
March 24, 2023
Islamic State (IS) militants slit the throats of 15 Syrian civilians hunting for truffles in the country’s truffle-rich desert, underscoring the durability of the IS threat in parts of its former caliphate terrorist, as this most recent violent episode is part of a series of continuing attacks in which the jihadists have killed and/or kidnapped economically ravaged Syrians hunting for truffles that bring high value in markets.
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