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Taliban Sunnis Kill Shiites as Apostates from Islam
July 28, 2014
A group of Taliban fighters in Afghanistan killed Shiites hauled from a bus leaving the Afghan capital of Kabul, targeting Shiites for death as apostates from the Sunni version of Islam followed by the Taliban militants.
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U.K. Legal System Faces Challenges over Conformity with Sharia
July 28, 2014
Key government and non-governmental legal actors in the U.K. (the Solicitors' Regulation Authority, the Law Society, and the Lawyers' Secular Society) remain at loggerheads over proposals to provide formal guidance to attorneys in England and Wales about adjustments to specific U.K. legal practices to conform with Islamic legal regulations (sharia).
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Islamist Militants to Iraqi Christians: Convert, Pay, Die, or Flee
July 23, 2014
Jihadi fighters from The Islamic State (formerly, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant) have seized the fourth-century Mar Behnam Monastery near Mosul, offering monks there the same ultimatum being imposed by Islamist militants on Christians throughout the region: conversion to Islam, payment of a protection fee as second-class subjects, death, or flight from home.
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Islamic State Targets Syrian Regime to Expand Caliphate Footprint
July 23, 2014
The Islamic State, the political regime that declared a new caliphate headquartered in Iraq, is ratcheting up its military actions in Syria, towards the goal of overthrowing the al-Asad regime and consolidating an Islamic theocracy in what were once the states of Syria and Iraq.
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Saudi Arabia to Open Stock Market to Foreign Investors
July 23, 2014
Officials in Saudi Arabia announced that the country's stock market will be opened in 2015 to investment from foreign financial institutions, an effort aimed at bringing shareholder management and globalization expertise to the Kingdom's notoriously insular financial institutions.
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