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Internecine Islamist Struggle in Turkey
July 11, 2014
The struggle between Turkey's competing Islamist factions – the government's Justice and Development Party and the international Gulenist network – are producing continuing chaos in the country's political and social institutions, given wholesale purges of the police, judiciary, and media in Turkey.
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Boko Haram's Islamist Terror in Nigeria Creating Cycles of Refugees and Human Trafficking
July 11, 2014
Boko Haram's campaign to use violence to bring about a sharia state in Nigeria has morphed from a homegrown terror movement into a regional problem creating refugee flows, human trafficking of women, and girls kidnapped by the Islamist terror group.
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OIC Brokering Saudi-Iran Rapprochement
July 11, 2014
The leadership of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (“OIC”) is moving actively to position the global Islamic organization as a forum for rapprochement between Sunni powerhouse Saudi Arabia and Shiite leader Iran.
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Iraq Fragmenting Under Assaults by Islamic Militants and Jihadis
July 11, 2014
Iraq continues its slide into territorial disintegration and social anarchy, as Sunni militants led by the jihadi group Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant seized control from Baghdad over the Iraq's strategic area of Mosul and the Nineveh Province.
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Pakistan's Taliban Reflects Adaptability of Globalized Islamist Extremism
July 11, 2014
The Pakistani Taliban's audacious weekend assault on the country's Karachi airport is a warning of the adaptability and dynamism of globalized Islamist extremist networks fanning outward from core hubs in Southwest and Central Asia.
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