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Indonesia Visit Reflects Saudi Islamist Strategy
March 08, 2017
Saudi Arabia's King Salman's visit to Indonesia reflects the Gulf kingdom's longstanding cultivation of an "Islamist ecosystem" in the world's most populous Muslim-majority country, part of a global strategy of Saudi investing in Islamist extremist educational institutions, political organizations, and infrastructure.
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IS Sites Urge Attacks on Western Jewish Targets
March 08, 2017
A widely known Islamic State (IS) internet chat room calls on the jihadi group's supporters to target Jewish sites in Western countries, providing detailed instructions for carrying out lone-wolf, high-casualty attacks against soft targets like synagogues, museums, businesses, and embassies.
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OIC Plans Conference on Stability in Afghanistan
March 01, 2017
The Secretary-General of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has announced that the 57-member-state body claiming to represent Muslims worldwide plans to sponsor an International Muslim Ulema Conference to explore corrective measures for competing interpretations of Islam that continue to make Afghanistan a failed state and conflict zone.
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Drone Capability Emerges as IS Threat
March 01, 2017
US counterterrorism experts warn that the Islamic State's (IS) use of commercial drone technology in the battle for Mosul indicates that the jihadi group is moving rapidly toward the use of "drone swarms" for increased lethality and heightened psychological impact against civilian targets in the West.
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Turkey's Islamic Nationalism Is Recreating the Ottoman Caliphate
February 28, 2017
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) has used 15 years of uninterrupted power to implement a domestic and foreign policy agenda that synthesizes Islamism and nationalism toward the goal of creating a new Ottoman Empire and reviving the caliphate in Turkey.
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