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  • Chinese Projects in Pakistan Prove Tempting Targets for Terrorist Groups0

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    • February 18, 2018

    Publication: Terrorism Monitor Volume: 16 Issue: 3 By: Sudha Ramachandran February 8, 2018  Chinese workers in Pakistan On December 8, 2017, the Chinese embassy in Islamabad warned its nationals of possible terrorist attacks targeting “Chinese-invested organizations and Chinese citizens” in Pakistan (Dawn, December 8, 2017). It gave no details of how it had come by

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  • Islamic State Gains Ground in Afghanistan as Its Caliphate Crumbles Elsewhere0

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    • January 28, 2018

    Publication: Terrorism Monitor Volume: 16 Issue: 2     Jamestown Foundation By: Animesh Roul    January 26, 2018  Wilayat-e-Khorasan, the Islamic State (IS) affiliate in the borderlands of Afghanistan and Pakistan, is one of the terrorist group’s strongest franchises. Bolstered by defections from the Taliban and boosted further in recent months by an influx of foreign fighters fleeing

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  • Diverging Trajectories in Bangladesh: Islamic State vs al-Qaeda0

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    • December 25, 2017

      Publication: Terrorism Monitor Volume: 15 Issue: 23 By: Nathaniel Barr Bangladeshi Muslims attend the funeral of activist Xulhaz Mannan (Source: AP) Al-Qaeda and Islamic State have adopted divergent strategies in their competition for dominance in Bangladesh. Al-Qaeda has sought to build popular support by exploiting the grievances of the country’s political Islamists, and by

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  • Rohingya Crisis: Will China’s Mediation Succeed?0

    Publication: China Brief Volume: 17 Issue: 15, Jamestown Foundation By: Sudha Ramachandran November 22, 2017  During his visits to Dhaka, Bangladesh and Naypyitaw, Myanmar on November 18 and 19, China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi put forward a three-phase plan to resolve the Rohingya crisis. First, Wang called for a ceasefire in Myanmar’s devastated Rakhine state,

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  • Pakistan’s Tanzeem-e-Islami and Its Troublesome Extremist Links0

    By: Farhan Zahid November 10, 2017  A number of Pakistan’s Islamist organizations that agitate for the establishment of an Islamic caliphate but profess to be non-violent are finding renewed prominence, a concerning result of the surfacing of Islamic State’s (IS) local chapter, Wilayat-e-Khurasan. Islamist organizations such as Hizb ut Tahrir, Jamaat ul Momineena and Tanzeem-e-Islami

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  • Myanmar’s Tatmadaw and the Making of the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army0

    By: Zachary Abuza November 10, 2017  Since August 25, Myanmar’s security forces have conducted what the United Nations (UN) has described as “a textbook case of ethnic cleansing” against Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar’s Rakhine state. It has forced more than 589,000 Rohingya civilians to flee to Bangladesh, killing an estimated 3,000 people and burning 288

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