The “mastermind” of the November 13 Paris attacks, Abdelhamid Abaaoud, was radicalized in a Belgian prison while serving time for theft . Charlie Hebdo and kosher supermarket shooters Amedy Coulibaly and Cherif Kouachi also spent time in jail...
In response to the growing imperative across Europe to counter violent extremism and prevent radicalisation , the European Union (EU) has launched an initiative designed to improve its ability to fight online recruitment and radicalisation by...
On December 6, 2015, President Obama addressed the American public in the aftermath of the San Bernardino terrorist attack carried out by Tashfeen Malik and her husband Syed Rizwan Farook that killed 14 and wounded 21. The President had much to say...
President Obama’s 13-minute speech from the Oval Office Dec. 6 was intended to allay the concerns of the public over the mounting danger of jihadist terrorism following the horrific attack in San Bernadino, California. Yet his remarks may have the...
On November 19 , a Palestinian man in the West Bank Israeli settlement of Gush Etzion fired a submachine gun into a crowd and then rammed his car into another. The attacker killed five people, including 18-year-old Ezra Schwartz of Sharon...
Call it l’année de la terreur . The coordinated ISIS assault on Paris November 13 marks a grisly continuation of the terror campaign that the French republic has endured this year. This campaign began in earnest in January with joint attacks on the...
Extremists: Their Words. Their Actions.
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On May 8, 2019, Taliban insurgents detonated an explosive-laden vehicle and then broke into American NGO Counterpart International’s offices in Kabul. At least seven people were killed and 24 were injured.
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