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Iraqi Election Results Suggest Pushback Against Domestic Islamist Extremists and External Patrons
October 27, 2021
Iraq's just-completed parliamentary elections suggest popular pushback against Islamist sectarianism, with election results likely to produce a coalition comprised of moderate Sunni and Shiite groups, secularists, Kurds from the Tishreen (October) youth-dominated protest movement, as counterweight to the still-powerful Shiite sectarian Sadrist movement.
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German IS Woman Convicted for Crimes against Humanity for Enslaving Yazidi Child
October 27, 2021
A Munich court has sentenced a German woman who supports the Islamic State in Syria to ten years in prison for participating in the purchase, enslavement, and death of a Yazidi woman and child captured by jihadist group in its caliphate operations in Iraq and Syria.
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Pentagon Official: IS Could Attack U.S. in Six Months
October 27, 2021
In remarks to Congress, Colin Kahl, Undersecretary of Defense for Policy, testified that Islamic State in Afghanistan intends to attack the United States and, in six months, will have the capacity to do so.
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FATF Grey-Lists Turkey for Islamist Terror Financing and Money Laundering
October 27, 2021
The Paris-based Financial Action Task Force (FATF) has placed Turkey on the Grey List that monitors violations of international financial protections against corruption, citing the Islamist government for its failures to take adequate measures to clamp down on financing of Islamist terror groups and related money-laundering operations.
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Islamist Regimes Compete for Geopolitical Influence by Deploying Alternative Forms of Religious Soft Power
October 20, 2021
Islamist regimes across Eurasia are deploying religion as a soft power tool to build their geopolitical influence and to sustain the Islamist bases of their political power, with Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Indonesia increasingly positioned against Turkey and Iran.
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