Combating Terrorism Center

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The Combating Terrorism Center at West Point educates, advises, and conducts research to equip present and future leaders with the intellectual tools necessary to understand the challenges of terrorism and counterterrorism.

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United States, New York, Hampton Bays

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2003

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Nov 20, 2025	Why The Trump Administration’s Comparison Of Antifa To Hamas, ISIS, And MS-13 Makes No Sense	When Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem compared antifa to the transnational criminal group MS-13, Hamas and the Islamic State group in October 2025, she equated a nonhierarchical, loosely organized movement of antifascist activists wi...
Aug 1, 2024	Iran strives to become a pan-sectarian Islamic power	The success of Iran’s Islamic Revolution in 1979 marked the first time in modern history that a secular regime in the Middle East was toppled in favor of a theocratic, Islamist order. Over the following decades, the Islamic Republic of Iran...
Jan 12, 2024	What to know about Yemen's Houthi rebels and the Red Sea conflict	The U.S. and U.K. carried out airstrikes against the Iran-backed Houthi rebels on Thursday in response to dozens of attacks by the militant group on merchant and commercial vessels in the Red Sea. Why it matters: The escalation in the Red S...
Apr 14, 2023	Salafi-Jihadi Movement Weekly Update, April 12, 2023	AFGHANISTAN, April 14 - Salafi-Jihadi Movement Weekly Update, April 12, 2023 Authors: Brian Carter, Liam Karr, Kathryn Tyson, and Peter Mills To receive the Salafi-Jihadi Movement Weekly Update via email, please subscribe here. Follow CTP o...
Mar 31, 2023	Salafi-Jihadi Movement Weekly Update, March 29, 2023	AFGHANISTAN, March 30 - Salafi-Jihadi Movement Weekly Update, March 29, 2023 Authors: Brian Carter, Liam Karr, Kathryn Tyson, and Peter Mills To receive the Salafi-Jihadi Movement Weekly Update via email, please subscribe here. Follow CTP o...
Mar 24, 2023	Salafi-Jihadi Movement Weekly Update, March 22, 2023	AFGHANISTAN, March 24 - Authors: Brian Carter, Liam Karr, and Kathryn Tyson Data Cutoff: March 22, 2023, at 10 a.m. Key Takeaways: Iraq and Syria. ISIS increased attacks targeting a pro-regime tribe north of Deir ez Zor city, Syria, to driv...
Mar 17, 2023	Salafi-Jihadi Movement Weekly Update, March 16, 2023	AFGHANISTAN, March 17 - Salafi-Jihadi Movement Weekly Update, March 16, 2023 Authors: Brian Carter, Liam Karr, Peter Mills, and Kathryn Tyson To receive the Salafi-Jihadi Movement Weekly Update via email, please subscribe here. Follow CTP o...
Mar 10, 2023	Salafi-Jihadi Movement Weekly Update, March 8, 2023	AFGHANISTAN, March 10 - Authors: Liam Karr, Peter Mills, Brian Carter, Kathryn Tyson To receive the Salafi-Jihadi Movement Weekly Update via email, please subscribe here. Follow CTP on Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook. Data Cutoff: March 8, ...
Mar 8, 2023	Containing Transnational Jihadists in Syria’s North West	What’s new? A three-year ceasefire in rebel-held Idlib has saved countless lives and allowed the main insurgent group, Hei’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), to redirect its efforts from fighting the regime to dismantling ISIS and other jihadist cell...
Feb 28, 2023	A Tale of Two Insurrections: Lessons for Disinformation Research From the Jan. 6 and 8 Attacks	This year’s Jan. 8 attack on Brazilian democracy drew quick comparisons to the storming of the U.S. Capitol almost exactly two years prior. Both riots sought to overturn the election results of the preceding presidential election, in the U....
Feb 25, 2023	Salafi-Jihadi Movement Weekly Update, February 22, 2023	AFGHANISTAN, February 24 - Authors: Liam Karr, Peter Mills, Brian Carter, Kathryn Tyson To receive the Salafi-Jihadi Movement Weekly Update via email, please subscribe here. Follow CTP on Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook. Data Cutoff: Februa...
Jan 27, 2023	Nonstate armed actors in 2023: Persistence amid geopolitical shuffles	Four factors will critically shape the landscape of nonstate armed actors and illicit economies in 2023 and beyond: the new geopolitics; persisting structural weaknesses of government responses to nonstate armed actors, amplified by the las...
Dec 11, 2022	Oath Keepers Leaders Were Found Guilty, but the Threat of Antigovernment Extremism Remains	Editor’s Note: With Oath Keepers leader Stewart Rhodes convicted of seditious conspiracy, the group he founded is at a crossroads. The University at Albany’s Sam Jackson, author of a recent book on the group, explains how the conviction is ...
Dec 4, 2022	Did al-Qaeda Die With Ayman al-Zawahiri?	Editor’s Note: The killing of al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri in July raised the obvious question of who would succeed him—and many months later, we still don’t know the answer. Raffaello Pantucci of the International Center for Political...
Dec 1, 2022	The Chatter Podcast: Pandemics and Political Violence with Brian Michael Jenkins	Plagues periodically exact a heavy toll on human life--and much more. They devastate economies, exacerbate social disorder, shock governance systems, provide fodder for political violence, and interact in surprising ways with terrorism. In ...
Oct 24, 2022	Let’s Not Kid Ourselves: Afghanistan’s Taliban Regime Will Not Become More Inclusive	Ever since the August 2021 Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, there has been widespread, almost universal, rhetoric in international diplomatic circles—ranging from the United Nations to the European Union and the United States to Russia—that...
Oct 23, 2022	Win, Lose, or Draw, the Wagner Group Benefits From the War in Ukraine	Editor’s Note: Russia has long used private military companies like the Wagner Group to fight its wars, and Wagner is playing an important role in the conflict in Ukraine. Christopher Faulkner and Marcel Plichta assess the Wagner Group’s re...
Oct 20, 2022	The Evolution of Critical Infrastructure Targeting by Violent Extremists	As the United States grapples with a fractured violent extremist landscape and the rapidly approaching midterms this fall, threats to critical infrastructure by a range of actors have metastasized significantly and grown more palpable. Whil...
Jul 13, 2022	The Assassination of Shinzo Abe and the Threat Posed by DIY Weapons	An individual shot and killed former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe with an improvised firearm on July 8 while Abe was delivering a campaign speech in the city of Nara. The suspected assailant, identified as 41-year-old Tetsuya Yamagami...
Jun 12, 2022	The United Nations’ List of 'Not Listed' Terrorist Entities	Editor’s Note: The U.N. Analytical Support and Sanctions Monitoring Team regularly issues highly useful reports on al-Qaeda, the Islamic State, and related movements. The reports identify entities subject to global penalties because of thei...
Feb 8, 2022	Al-Qaeda After Al-Zawahiri	Ayman al-Zawahiri, who led al-Qaeda after Osama bin Laden’s death in 2011, is dead from a U.S. drone strike on a residential area in Kabul. Zawahiri’s death is the end of an era—he was an early member of al-Qaeda and an active jihadist for ...
Feb 6, 2022	Drone Strikes and Evidence-Based Counterterrorism	The debate over U.S. counterterrorism policy in the wake of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan has taken on greater urgency in light of a U.N. report released earlier this year concluding that “terrorist groups enjoy greater freedom in Af...
	Ayman al-Zawahiri assassination: The Taliban’s biggest crisis	The drone attack that killed al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri has plunged the Taliban into an internal crisis. The group has been humiliated by a unilateral US military action and its relentless claims that it has denied space to “terroris...

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When was Combating Terrorism Center founded?

Combating Terrorism Center was founded in 2003.

What has the press written about Combating Terrorism Center?

Parsers VC has collected 24 articles mentioning Combating Terrorism Center, among them “Why The Trump Administration’s Comparison Of Antifa To Hamas, ISIS, And MS-13 Makes No Sense” (Nov 20, 2025) and “Iran strives to become a pan-sectarian Islamic power” (Aug 1, 2024).

Is Combating Terrorism Center still active?

Yes, Combating Terrorism Center is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Dec 2, 2025.