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Syria's Sectarian Violence and Massive Refugee Crisis Destabilize Middle East
August 20, 2014
The estimated nine million refugees and internally displaced people created by sectarian violence driven by Islamist extremist groups fighting in Syria (and Iraq) is creating a crisis of state stability and a humanitarian catastrophe throughout the Middle East.
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U.S. Courts Try to Unravel Linkages Between Global Finance and Religious Terrorism
August 20, 2014
As the first civil trial against a bank under the U.S. Anti-Terrorism Act gets underway in a federal district court trial in Brooklyn, international finance experts are concerned that a finding of liability in a case dealing with global Islamist terrorism could exert a chilling effect on banks doing business in religious-conflict zones.
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Qatar's Support for Militant Islamist Groups Raising Questions in Washington
August 20, 2014
Mounting evidence of material, financial, and political support from the government of Qatar to militant Islamist groups in the Mideast and Africa, including several on the U.S. State Department's Foreign Terrorist Watch List, has provoked growing calls by U.S. government officials for an investigation into Qatar as a possible state sponsor of terrorism.
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Radical Islamists Carry out More Child Abductions in Nigeria
August 20, 2014
The Islamist extremist group Boko Haram, which aims to make Nigeria a sharia state, has staged a mass abduction of young men in a northeast Nigerian village, four months after the group's mass kidnapping of 200-plus Nigerian schoolgirls.
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Turkey Proposes Action Plan for OIC Engagement on Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
August 20, 2014
Turkey's Foreign Minister presented a comprehensive action plan at an emergency meeting of Foreign Ministers of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (“OIC”), urging the OIC to take the lead in a global initiative that includes diplomatic, political, and humanitarian platforms for resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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