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Gaza War a Microcosm of Islamist Role in New Mideast Reconfiguration
August 04, 2014
There is growing consensus among Mideast experts that the Hamas-Israel war in Gaza reflects the contours of a regional balance-of-power struggle, pitting Israel and status-quo Islamic monarchies and secular authoritarian regimes (e.g. Saudi Arabia and Egypt) against hardline Islamist groups and their state patrons (e.g. Hamas, ISIS, Qatar, and Turkey).
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Islamist Militants Consolidating Control in Libya
August 04, 2014
Western diplomatic missions are being closed in Libya, as Islamist forces connected to the murder of U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens are consolidating their control over the city of Benghazi in the wake of last week's collapse of the capital city of Tripoli to radical Islamist militias.
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New Islamic Caliphate a Threat to US Homeland Security
August 04, 2014
Senior US defense and intelligence officials publicly expressed agreement at the recent Aspen Security Forum that the newly established Islamic State, the caliphate established by the Islamist terror group ISIS that now controls large swaths of Iraqi and Syrian territory, constitutes a threat to both U.S. strategic interests and the American homeland.
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EU Issues Sobering Report on Globalization of Salafist-Wahhabist Terror Funding
August 04, 2014
The destabilizing geopolitical effects caused by the globalization of violent-extremist Islamist groups, whose operational capacity is related to steady funding streams from Wahhabi-Salafi regimes in the Arabian Gulf region, is the subject of a sobering report issued by the Directorate-General for External Policies of the European Union.
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Kashmir Leader Calls on OIC to Increase Pressure on India for Conflict Resolution
August 04, 2014
A leading figure in Kashmir's Muslim community has called on the Organisation for Islamic Cooperation ("OIC") to exert greater pressure on the Indian government and international organizations to resolve the protracted India-Pakistan conflict over Kashmir.
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