Sentence examples for moderate Islamist groups from inspiring English sources
Most of Somalia is controlled by various Islamist militias, although some of the moderate Islamist groups support the government.
"The removal of Isis necessitates the removal of Assad and a positive long-term engagement with moderate rebel groups including moderate Islamist groups.
One of the insurgent groups, a faction of the Union of Islamic Courts, considered one of the more moderate Islamist groups in Somalia, said it had lost six men in the day's fighting and had killed 15 government soldiers.
Days later another base was surroundedMore than a prodElsewhere in the region a range of relatively moderate Islamist groups, including the Muslim Brotherhood, have joined with IS in seeing the coalition as the spearhead of a new Western crusade.
The three moderate Islamist groups which signed the statement – Liwa al-Tawhid, Liwa al-Islam and Suqur al-Sham – had represented the bulk of the SNC's presence on the ground in Syria, loosely organised under the umbrella of the Supreme Military Council, according to Charles Lister, an analyst with IHS Jane's Terrorism and Insurgency Centre.
Over the weekend, in two towns, a moderate Islamist group routed the Shabab, one of the nation's most fearsome and radical Islamist militias.
And the government recognized the first new political party formed since the revolution, a moderate Islamist group that has sought recognition for 15 years.
The protest was led by a moderate Islamist group of Sufi clerics who have driven the Shabab out of several towns in central Somalia.
The cables also show that Mr. Suleiman equated the Muslim Brotherhood, the moderate Islamist group that now dominates the Egyptian Parliament, with dangerous radicalism.
The rebels have controlled most of Mogadishu for several years after emerging from the ashes of a moderate Islamist group that was destroyed by the invading Ethiopian army in late 2006.
A moderate Islamist group, the Justice and Development Party, won the most seats, but protest leaders there had urged a boycott, saying the new Constitution only reinforces the king's ultimate authority.
