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  • Ethnic Conflict in Sri Lanka: The Easter Bombings and Beyond0

    by Christopher Smith July 26, 2019 Jamestown Foundation The series of tragic bombings across Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday has placed the island-nation at the forefront of concern regarding a possible new Islamic State (IS) operation in South Asia. The exact nature and direction of this dynamic is not yet clear and may still be

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  • Al-Qaeda’s Ayman al-Zawahiri Invokes Kashmir Again, Calls for ‘One’ Jihad0

    by Animesh Roul July 26, 2019 Jamestown Foundation On July 9, al-Qaeda’s Emir Ayman al- Zawahiri incited violence against India and Pakistan by vehemently criticizing these neighboring countries for the plight of Muslims in Kashmir. Zawahiri’s video message titled “Don’t Forget Kashmir” was released by al-Qaeda’s propaganda arm, As-Sahab media foundation, on the online messaging platform Telegram.

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  • Jamestown Analyst Predicted Wider UAE Involvement in Yemeni Island of Socotra0

    Yesterday, Reuters reported hundreds of troops backed by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) landed on the strategic Yemeni island of Socotra. The troops are reportedly South Yemeni separatists dressed in civilian clothing, transported to the island by UAE naval vessels from Aden. The Interior Minister of the internationally recognized Yemeni government, led by President Abdrabbuh

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  • The Shifting Narrative of Women’s Role in Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh’s Islamic Jihad0

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    • November 18, 2018

    By: Animesh Roul November 17, 2018  (source: thedailystar.net) Bangladesh’s most lethal home-grown militant organization, Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB)—which has multiple ideological and operational factions, including the Islamic State (IS)-inspired neo-JMB and al-Qaeda linked core Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen (JM)—has gained notoriety over the last few years for recruiting and nurturing a network of women militants. Despite robust counter-terrorism operations following

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  • Xinjiang’s Re-Education and Securitization Campaign: Evidence from Domestic Security Budgets0

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    • November 18, 2018

    By: Adrian Zenz  November 5, 2018  A recent PRC state TV broadcast showing Uighur students undergoing supposed “vocational training” In August 2018, the U.N. Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination expressed its concern at reports the PRC had detained as many as a million members of Muslim ethnic minorities in extrajudicial re-education camps in the Xinjiang

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  • The Taliban Takes on Islamic State: Insurgents Vie for Control of Northern Afghanistan0

    Publication: Terrorism Monitor Volume: 16 Issue: 16 By: Waliullah Rahmani August 10, 2018 Fierce fighting between the Taliban and Islamic State-Khorasan (IS-K), the Afghan chapter of IS, have seen hundreds of militants killed in Jowzjan and Faryab provinces, two provinces in northern Afghanistan considered to be IS-K strongholds. About 300 militants were killed in two weeks

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  • What the Battle for Hodeidah Means for Yemen and the Region0

    by Michael Horton*    10 August 2018 On June 13, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, in conjunction with their Yemeni allies, launched “Operation Golden Victory.” The grandiosely named offensive is aimed at seizing the Yemeni Red Sea port of Hodeidah, which has been occupied by Yemen’s Houthi rebels since

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  • The Lessons China Taught Itself: Why the Shanghai Cooperation Organization Matters0

    Publication: China Brief Volume: 18 Issue: 11 By: Abigail Grace June 19, 2018  CCP General Secretary Xi Jinping chairs the 18th Meeting of the Council of Heads of Member States of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization in Qingdao China’s changing political landscape and the recent accession of India to the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) marks the

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  • Islamic State Emboldened in Afghanistan0

    Publication: Terrorism Monitor Volume: 16 Issue: 12 By: Farhan Zahid June 14, 2018  IS-K forces (Source: Newbranch.com) From its establishment in September 2014, Islamic State’s arm in Afghanistan, its Khorasan province entity (IS-K), found itself the target of attacks by Afghan Taliban forces and strikes by the U.S. military in conjunction with the Afghan security

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  • New Evidence for China’s Political Re-Education Campaign in Xinjiang0

    By: Adrian Zenz May 15, 2018  This article is condensed from a longer paper, available for download here. Since summer of 2017, troubling reports in Western media outlets about large-scale detentions of ethnic Muslim minorities (including Uyghurs, Kazakhs and Kyrgyz) in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) have multiplied (RFA, May 4). These reports include substantial anecdotal

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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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