beyond counterterrorism: defeating the salafi-jihadi movement

Washington has fixated on spe­cific groups and individuals that appeared most threat­ening to American interests first with Qaeda core Afghanistan and Pakistan under Osama bin Laden, then Qaeda Iraq under Abu Musab Zarqawi, then Qaeda in Arabian Peninsula Yemen and Anwar Awlaki, and now Islamic State under..

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On Tuesday, the US designed Nujaba --- an Islamic movement whose crucial aid to the army resulted in the defeat of Daesh Iraq late 2017 --- terrorist group and imposed sanctions on it, . . ..

the cheapest blood

On one hand, Muslim thrones order to perpetuate their dynastic rule and to remain immune to any revolution against their despotism are massacring their co-religionists and on the other, the anti- Muslim islamophobes impressed by the writings of Samuel Huntington's clash of civilizations subjecting Muslims to..

russia: anti-gay purge in chechnya

victim of the purge telling his story in safe house in Russia April 2017. © 2017 Nataliya Vasilyeva for Human Rights Watch Police Chechnya rounded up, beat, and humiliated dozens of gay or in effort to purge them from Chechen society, today. ..

central african republic: siege on capital’s muslims

Muslims wait to be evacuated in PK12 neighborhood after they fled attacks by anti-balaka forces.  Muslim in Central African Republic is being targeted by Christian anti-balaka militias in relentless wave of coordinated violence that is forcing entire communities to leave the country. ..

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