Новости за 25.04.2018

Ramadan, Eid al-Fitr, and Eid al-Adha for 2018 SWJED Wed, 04/25/2018 - 4:21pm

Ramadan is a time for fasting, prayers, charity, and self-reflection. Many Muslims make personal resolutions for the coming year to improve one or more aspects of their lives. Ramadan is a time of spiritual and personal transformation of the body, heart, mind, and soul. It is the best time to begin practicing good habits and giving up things that are haraam (prohibited), discouraged, or unhealthy, such as alcohol, profanity, or smoking. Читать дальше...

Surely not as a Chinese company has purchased Greece's major commercial port, Piraeus and the Italians think there is a fraud: ---Quote--- uropean Union and Italian authorities are investigating suspected wide-scale tax fraud by Chinese criminal gangs importing goods via Greece’s largest port...

A short overview article. A sample passage: ---Quote--- The attack exposed the lingering threat from homegrown militants in a country that has largely avoided the scourge of Islamist terrorism since the collapse of Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) in the late 2000s. In the years since, several...

---Quote--- By 2020, the country plans to give all its 1.4. billion citizens a personal score, based on how they behave, according to CBS News. The government started working on its so-called social credit system back in 2014, which ranks citizens on their trustworthiness, including whether they...

An ICG report update, their first since June 2007, on this little reported conflict. Link:https://www.crisisgroup.org/middle-east-north-africa/north-africa/western-sahara/youth-movement-sahrawi-refugee-camps

Service Leaders Rethinking Navy and Marine Corps Education

Service Leaders Rethinking Navy and Marine Corps Education by Ben Werner – USNI News

SOCNORTH 101 SWJED Wed, 04/25/2018 - 3:02am

As the youngest Theater Special Operations Command in the United States Special Operations Command, SOCNORTH fills a vital capability for our nation and the United States Government. Operating in a complex environment of authorities, resources and threats, SOCNORTH does more with less by cooperating on an enhanced basis with the interagency and law enforcement, as well as partner and allied nations.

Jihadi Generations: Strategies Used For Weaponizing Children (Part 2) SWJED Wed, 04/25/2018 - 12:15am

Violent extremist groups are using all methods possible to wage a successful long-term campaign using children. These groups infiltrate existing systems, threaten and radicalize important players, use extreme forms of violence to attack those they perceive as non-compliant. No foundation of society is off limits be it: hospitals, schools, religious organizations, legal institutions... Читать дальше...