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'The Rise of Political Islam in Turkey: Urban Poverty, Grassroots Activism and Islamic Fundamentalism' by Kayhan Deliba? (I.B. Tauris, 344 pages, £68)

Egypt is forcing Libyan airliners flying between Turkey and Jordan and the capital Tripoli to stop in eastern Libya to allow the country's internationally recognized government to screen out potential Islamist fighters, officials said.
   

The Greek foreign ministry condemned on Monday the coldblooded execution of 21 Egyptian Christians in Libya by Islamic State militants.

Niger's parliament has unanimously approved the deployment of troops to northern Nigeria as part of a regional offensive against Islamist militant group Boko Haram, which has launched several cross-border attacks in recent days.
   

Nigeria's military fought Boko Haram militants in the restive northeastern city of Maiduguri on Jan. 25, as US Secretary of State John Kerry jetted in to discuss fears about election-related violence.
      

Around 100 Syrian soldiers and 80 Islamist fighters were killed during a two-day battle in which insurgents took the Wadi al-Deif military base, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said on Dec. 16.
   

Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) has shut all schools in areas it controls in eastern Syria pending a religious revision of the curriculum, residents and a monitoring group said on Nov. 7.
   

Tunisia's main secular party Nidaa Tounes won 85 seats in the new 217-member parliament in Sunday's election, while the Islamist party Ennahda secured 69 seats, according to results released by electoral authorities on Oct. 30.
   

A shooter who allegedly helped kill three off-duty soldiers in Hakkari’s Yüksekova district on Oct. 25 is among three suspects who was detained in a late-night operation, the Hakkari Governor’s Office said in a statement Oct. 27.

Boko Haram has used kidnapped young women and girls on the front lines of its insurgency, according to a new report published on Oct. 27, after a fresh abduction in Nigeria's far northeast.
      
Human Rights Watch made the claim as it outlined testimony from dozens of former hostages who documented physical and psychological abuse at the hands of the militants.