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AQ Affiliate Al-Shabaab Attacks Somalia's Parliament
April 19, 2022
Somalia's al-Qaeda (AQ) affiliate Al-Shabaab continued the jihadist campaign for control of the geopolitically crucial Horn of Africa region, with a mortar attack on the country's parliament, in an effort to disrupt newly elected officials' efforts to sustain the election process for a new president and prime minister in the war torn country destabilized by Islamist militancy.
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Turkey's Islamist Regime Moves to Criminalize Inter-Religious Dialogue
April 13, 2022
Turkey's Islamist regime is moving to criminalize inter-religous dialogue by linking Christians and Jews to the Gulenist movement that has been designated a terrorist organization by the government in Ankara, with Istanbul prosecutors charging that the country's religious minorities are fifth-columnists and enemies of the state who are complicit with the Islamic Gulenists, former allies of Turkey's ruling Islamist government.
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Islamist Extremist Threat Intensifies in Nuclear Pakistan
April 11, 2022
The threat of Islamists in Pakistan is intensifying due to IS-led attacks on civil society, corroding the public confidence in the state’s ability to protect its citizens, sowing sectarian divisions resulting from the Sunni IS’ targeting of Pakistan’s large Shiite minority community, as well as the IS project of capturing control of the nuclear-armed Pakistani state.
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Islamic State Deepens Regional Presence in Central and East Africa
April 11, 2022
The Islamic State’s transnational presence in Central and East Africa (Islamic State Central Africa Province—ISCAP) continues to intensify, evidenced in a recent video in which the leader of the IS branch in the Democratic Republic of the Congo pledged allegiance to the new global leader of IS.
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Taliban-IS Internecine Battles Illustrate Expanding Presence of Islamist extremism in Asia
April 11, 2022
The Islamist extremist Taliban regime in control of Afghanistan since the U.S. withdrawal in August 2021 is waging a steady war against its main ideological rival, IS-K (Islamic State in Khorasan Province) at the porous borders between Afghanistan and Pakistan, revealing the expanding presence of a complex network of competing jihadist groups spreading across China, Central Asia, and South Asia.
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