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Pakistan Continues High Profile for OIC, Hosting Foreign Ministers Summit
March 08, 2022
The Islamic Republic of Pakistan, the world's fifth most populous state, is sustaining its high profile as a key actor in the global, multilateral, 57-member-state Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), which defines itself as "the collective voice of the Muslim world," and Pakistan's capital city Islamabad will host the forthcoming summit meeting of the OIC's Foreign Ministers.
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Al Shabaab Continues to Destabilize Horn of Africa With Jihadist Violence
March 08, 2022
Somali jihadist, Al Qaeda-affiliated, Al Shabaab continues to demonstrate threats to stability and security in the geopolitically crucial Horn of Africa region, with the US carrying out drone strikes to reduce the transnational threat of the terrorist group, which increased its violence against the Somali government.
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IS Militants Join Turkey-Backed Syrian National Army Fighting Syria's Assad Regime
March 08, 2022
Former IS militants are joining the ranks of the Turkey-backed Syrian National Army (SNA) that continues to fight to overthrow the government of Bashar al-Assad in Syria, using the SNA umbrella to avoid capture by al-Qaeda-related competitor groups and to remain in the regional locales of family and tribal connections, yet underscoring the vitality of IS as a threat to security in the Eastern Mediterranean.
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Iran Inks 25-Year Strategic Cooperation Agreement With China
March 04, 2022
The 25-year strategic cooperation inked by Iran's Islamic theocratic regime with China's communist authoritarian regime is now coming onstream, generating a complex network of economic, military, and security arrangements that will reinforce the Islamic regime state coercive apparatus through access to China's digital technologies of surveillance, information control and distortion, and espionage.
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Turkey's President Calls on Muslims in Europe to Mobilize Through Institutions
March 04, 2022
Turkey's Islamist President Recep Tayyip Erdogan met in Ankara with a delegation from his party's transnational political organization, the Union of International Democrats (UID), calling on them to mobilize Muslim communities across Europe to support Turkey's political Islamism at home and in Europe, with the UID serving as part of a larger institutional network of Ankara-funded entities for Turkey's influence-building in European politics, economics, and society.