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Vandalism May Signal Islamist Violence in Latin America
July 11, 2016
Local human rights groups are concerned that the vandalism of a Jewish Maccabi Community Center and sports club in Argentina with an Islamic State marker, in addition to a series of related assaults, may signal the spread of Islamist extremism in Latin America.
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Former US National Guardsman Arrested for Plotting IS Attack
July 11, 2016
Authorities in Virginia have arrested an ex-US National Guardsman who had made contacts in the Islamic State and was planning a terrorist attack in the US to conclude Ramadan.
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Turkey's Support for Jihadis Produces Domestic Blowback
July 11, 2016
The Turkish government's support for jihadi recruiting, transit, and operations in Syria and Iraq has begun to produce significant domestic blowback in the form of growing indoctrination networks of Salafist Islamists and increasingly frequent, homegrown terrorist attacks.
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Islamism Gives Bangladesh Nationalism a Violent Edge
July 11, 2016
The lethal attack by Islamic State supporters at a Dhaka restaurant reveals the growth of Islamism as an ideological tool for redefining nationalism in Bangladesh along exclusively religious lines, thereby producing attacks against groups deemed unacceptable to the country's jihadis.
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IS Attack Pattern Indicates Global Traction of Islamist Ideology
July 06, 2016
The 2016 pattern of attacks by Islamic State loyalists functioning in "wolf packs" points to the internationalized ideological appeal of militant Islamism and the operational reach of a global caliphate, even as IS forces fight to retain control over their territorial core in the Mideast.
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