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Eye on Extremism: February 9, 2026
A senior Hamas leader said Sunday that the Palestinian Islamist terror group would neither surrender its weapons nor accept foreign intervention in Gaza, pushing back against US and Israeli demands. “Criminalizing the resistance, its weapons, and...
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Eye on Extremism: February 6, 2026
Al-Qaeda issued a statement last Tuesday urging “jihad” against U.S. and Israeli forces, specifically targeting American aircraft carriers deployed to the Middle East in recent weeks. The group described the U.S. military presence as “part of a...
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Eye on Extremism: February 5, 2026
U.S. Central Command recently launched fresh strikes against Islamic State targets in Syria, continuing its retaliatory campaign after the December killings of two American soldiers and a civilian interpreter in an ambush. Between Jan. 27 and Feb. 2...
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Eye on Extremism: February 4, 2026
Armed extremists killed at least 162 people during attacks on two villages in western Nigeria, a lawmaker said Wednesday, in one of the deadliest assaults in recent months. The attacks targeted the villages of Woro and Nuku in the state of Kwara on...
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Eye on Extremism: February 3, 2026
The UN Security Council is set to vote on extending the mandate of the monitoring team supporting the Afghanistan 1988 Sanctions Committee, a move that would keep Taliban-linked individuals and entities under UN sanctions. The monitoring team’s...
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Eye on Extremism: February 2, 2026
Pakistan’s chief minister of Balochistan said security forces killed 145 militants within 40 hours following coordinated attacks across the province. Sarfraz Bugti told a news conference in Quetta on Sunday that the bodies of those killed were in the...
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Eye on Extremism: January 30, 2026
The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces announced a new agreement Friday with the country’s central government intended to stabilize a ceasefire that ended weeks of fighting and to lay out the steps toward integration between the two sides. Under...
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Eye on Extremism: January 29, 2026
EU foreign ministers agreed Thursday to designate Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a "terrorist" group, the bloc's foreign policy chief, Kaja Kallas, said. "Any regime that kills thousands of its own people is working toward its own...
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Eye on Extremism: January 28, 2026
Ambassador Deborah Lipstadt, the former U.S. envoy to monitor and combat antisemitism, told Jewish Insider on Tuesday that she’s concerned by the increased pace of antisemitic rhetoric coming from Saudi Arabia, and warned that an extended change of...
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Eye on Extremism: January 27, 2026
Top Stories Associated Press: World pauses to commemorate International Holocaust Remembrance Day Holocaust survivors, politicians and regular people commemorated International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Tuesday, gathering at events held across...
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