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U.S. Charges Returnee with Terrorism After Fighting with Islamists in Syria
April 17, 2015
A U.S. federal grand jury indicted a young Somali-American with material support to terrorism, as he confessed that he returned from fighting in Syria with the violent Islamist group al-Nusra Front in order to carry out attacks on U.S. soil.
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UN Investigates Isamist Extremists' Use of Sexual Violence as Terror Tactic
April 17, 2015
The UN Special Representative on Sexual Violence will be traveling to the Mideast to investigate the "catastrophic new trend" whereby armed Islamist extremist groups are using systematic rape and other forms of sexual violence as an ideological terror tactic to support their broader strategic goals, a phenomenon also growing in African countries where violent Islamists are active.
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Radical Islamists Target Women in Europe for Recruitment into ISIS
April 15, 2015
International security experts and human rights organizations are warning about the growing success of Islamic State ("IS") in targeting women in European countries for radicalization and recruitment to the jihadi movement in Syria and Iraq, with an estimated 550 women, usually accompanied by their children, already having migrated from Europe to the IS front in the Mideast.
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OIC Initiatives in Philippines Conflict Resolution Reflects Active Agenda in Southeast Asia
April 15, 2015
The current visit of the Secretary General of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation ("OIC") to Malaysia aims to secure Kuala Lumpur's support for advancing the OIC peace initiative related to Islamist secessionist violence in the Philippines, as well as to broaden the OIC's agenda for broader economic, political, and educational activism in Southeast Asia.
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Jihadist Competition Presents Serious Longterm Threat to Global Peace and Security
April 15, 2015
The competition for hegemony between the world's two major jihadist franchises, al-Qaeda and The Islamic State ("IS"), is producing the kinds of organizational adaptations, operational innovations, and media strategies which, overall, are strengthening both movements and raising the longterm threat to global peace and security from Islamist ideology spread through jihadi violence.
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