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Al-Shabaab Attacks Destabilize Somalia and Remind of Al-Qaeda’s Resilience
February 18, 2022
The Islamist militant group al-Shabaab recently perpetrated a series of multi-casualty attacks in Somalia’s capital city of Mogadishu, in a strategy designed to disrupt and destabilize parliamentary and presidential elections in the geopolitically important Horn of Africa country underscoring the continuing resilience and global security threat presented by al- Qaeda, the parent jihadi group to which al-Shabaab professes loyalty.
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AP: Pakistan’s Islamic Blasphemy Laws Sustain Climate of Impunity in Latest Mob Murder
February 18, 2022
Pakistan’s draconian Islamic blasphemy laws continue to sustain a climate of impunity enabling vigilante actions, evident in the mob stoning and lynching of a mentally unstable man accused of burning a Quran, with this latest episode of violence coming after a recent mob lynching of a Sri Lankan factory manager accused of blasphemy.
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IS Resilience Threat Complicated by Indefinite Detention in Camps
February 18, 2022
International security and human rights experts are warning that the threat of a resilient IS in the extremist groups core caliphate territories is being exacerbated by the indefinite detention in northeast Syria camps of thousands of fighters, women, and minors whose affiliation with the jihadist entity remains to be determined, via repatriation, prosecution, or reintegration, processes that have been indefinitely delayed by the international community.
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Iran's Islamist Revolutionary Activities Penetrate the Iraqi Military
February 18, 2022
Iran's Islamist revolutionary activities continue to disrupt governance and destabilize the security environment at the Iraq-Syria border regions, as Kataib Hezbollah (KH) brigades that are formally part of Iraq's military but are linked to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), have stepped up fundraising and recruiting for violence against key Sunni-majority theocracies such as Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
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Al-Monitor: Military & Intel Evidence Point to Turkey’s Support for IS
February 16, 2022
Military and intelligence information related to recent US and Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) activities against IS leadership and militants in northern Syria, along with testimony from captured Turkey-based IS leadership, reveal the extent of the active and passive support within NATO-member Turkey’s state apparatus and society.
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