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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... |
| May 15, 2025 | South Africa: U.S. Anti-Terrorism Cases Against MTN Group Put Multinationals in Peril | In April 2025, legal scholars raised concerns about the ongoing Iran-related terrorism cases against the MTN Group in the US court system. Professor Jeffrey Breinholt of George Washington University even went so far as to express his belief... |
| May 28, 2023 | Jan. 6 and Beyond: Why the U.S. Should Pass Domestic Terrorism Legislation | Editor’s Note: The storming of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, was one of the most searing acts of political violence in U.S. history. Often labeled as terrorism, it raises the question of whether the United States, like most other democr... |
| Mar 27, 2023 | The Week That Will Be | Monday, March 27, 2023 at 9:00 a.m. ET: The Brookings Institution hosted a forum to evaluate human capital challenges facing the U.S. national security community. The event featured opening remarks by Michael E. O’Hanlon, director of resear... |
| Mar 24, 2023 | Salafi-Jihadi Movement Weekly Update, March 22, 2023 | AFGHANISTAN, March 24 - Authors: Brian Carter, Liam Karr, and Kathryn Tyson
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Iraq and Syria. ISIS increased attacks targeting a pro-regime tribe north of Deir ez Zor city, Syria, to driv... |
| Mar 10, 2023 | The D.C. District Court Upholds the Government’s Geofence Warrant Used to Identify Jan. 6 Rioters | On Jan. 25, Judge Rudolph Contreras of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia handed down an opinion in the case of United States v. Rhine denying Jan. 6 rioter David Harles Rhine’s motion to suppress evidence obtained from a ... |
| Mar 10, 2023 | Salafi-Jihadi Movement Weekly Update, March 8, 2023 | AFGHANISTAN, March 10 -
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| Feb 22, 2023 | Physical attacks on power grid rose by 71% last year, compared to 2021 | Physical attacks on the U.S. power grid rose last year by 71%, compared to 2021 and surpassed 2020 figures by 20%. The industry's preeminent clearinghouse predicts the number of serious incidents will continue to rise this year.
CBS News ha... |
| Feb 17, 2023 | DHS "very concerned" about white nationalist attacks on power grid | On the heels of a string of high-profile attempted attacks at power substations, the top intelligence official at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) remains "very concerned" about copycat attacks on the U.S. energy grid, dr... |
| Jan 28, 2023 | The risk of election violence in the United States in 2024 | Despite fears that the 2022 U.S. midterm elections would see a reprise of January 6-like political violence, the elections occurred with no mobs storming state capitals or other attacks. Improved law enforcement deserves much of the credit:... |
| Jan 14, 2023 | Salafi-Jihadi Movement Weekly Update, January 12, 2023 | AFGHANISTAN, January 13 -
Authors: Brian Carter, Kathryn Tyson, Liam Karr, and Peter Mills
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Syria. Deteriorating relationships between the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and local commun... |
| Jan 4, 2023 | With Electrical Grids Under Assault, U.S. And Ukraine Seek Scarce Transmission Gear | An autotransformer completely destroyed after a Russian Attack.Getty Images |
| Dec 19, 2022 | The D.C. Circuit Holds the Power to Upend Hundreds of Prosecutions of Jan. 6 Rioters | It’s the morning of Dec. 12, and Courtroom 31 in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit is sparsely populated—a surprise given that the court is about to hear an appeal with the power to topple hundreds of prosecutio... |
| 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 8, 2022 | A Crucial Appeal for Capitol Riot Prosecutions: D.C. Circuit to Hear Arguments Challenging the Felony Charge Used in 290 Cases | On Dec. 12, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit will hear arguments in a case that holds the potential to upend literally hundreds of felony prosecutions stemming from the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection.
The matter i... |
| Nov 17, 2022 | Disrupting Violent Extremists’ ‘Free Spaces,’ Online and Off | Editor’s Note: Domestic extremism today involves the mixing of many elements, making counterterrorism far more difficult. National Defense University’s R. Kim Cragin uses the case of the so-called New Mexico Civil Guard to explain how white... |
| Oct 24, 2022 | The Lawfare Podcast: The Violent Extremist Threat to Critical Infrastructure in the United States | Last month, the George Washington University Program on Extremism published a report called, “Mayhem, Murder, and Misdirection: Violent Extremist Attack Plots Against Critical Infrastructure in the United States.” To talk through that repor... |
| Oct 21, 2022 | The Week That Was | Paul Rosenzweig argued that the Biden administration’s executive order on U.S.-European Union (EU) signals intelligence offers a relatively new U.S. approach to signals intelligence collection, resolving key points of tension between the Un... |
| 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... |
| Oct 18, 2022 | Extremist Groups Abuse Tax Exemptions. Here’s What We Can Do About It. | On a hand-painted helipad deep in the Sonoran Desert, a small consumer drone whirs to life. This aircraft is part of a citizen-run program to identify and monitor migrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border. The initiative, known as SEIDARM, w... |
| Oct 16, 2022 | What Is a Terrorist Movement? | Definitions are the bane of terrorism analysis, and most are plagued with gaps, ambiguities, and inconsistencies. Even close allies do not agree on definitions of terrorism and which groups should be labeled as dangerous. Often there is an ... |
| Oct 9, 2022 | Women and Children to the Front | Editor’s Note: In recent years, men have had the dubious distinction of dominating the ranks of terrorists, but that may be changing. Farah Pandith and Jacob Ware of the Council on Foreign Relations argue that women and children, who are ty... |
| Sep 16, 2022 | What It Really Means to “Hold Big Tech Accountable” | Across the globe, lawmakers are belatedly moving to regulate the companies that manage the internet. These efforts vary widely, in terms of both intent and mechanism. Antitrust efforts aim to limit the power of gargantuan companies and impr... |
| Sep 11, 2022 | Bangsamoro Peace and the U.S.-Philippines Alliance | Editor’s Note: The United States has long worked with the Philippines on both counterterrorism and regional security issues such as the rising threat of China, but these issues often followed different tracks. Brian Harding and Haroro Ingra... |
| Jul 20, 2022 | In Defense of the Justice Department | Editor’s Note: The following article should be read in conversation with “Is the Justice Department Meeting the Moment?” by Quinta Jurecic and Natalie Orpett. Together, the articles articulate two sides of a debate over criticisms of the ... |
| Jul 20, 2022 | Is the Justice Department Meeting the Moment? | Editor’s Note: The following article should be read in conversation with “In Defense of the Justice Department” by Benjamin Wittes. Together, the articles articulate two sides of a debate over criticisms of the Justice Department’s approach... |
| Jul 16, 2022 | Inside an international network of teenage neo-Nazi extremists | This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? Log in.
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| Jul 7, 2022 | On Guns, Insurrections, and Magnetometers: A Sidelight From Cassidy Hutchinson’s Testimony | The most shocking testimony that Cassidy Hutchinson gave last week before the House select committee on the Jan. 6 attack—indeed, the most shocking that any witness has given at any of the six hearings to date—revolved around the magnetomet... |
| Jun 17, 2022 | The Jan. 6th Committee on Why Oaths Matter | Rep. Bennie Thompson opened his committee’s hearings on the Jan. 6 insurrection by discussing not just the recent memory of the Capitol riot, but something that happened over 150 years earlier: the Civil War. He was born, he said, in “a tow... |
| May 29, 2022 | Expanding U.S. Counterterrorism in Somalia Is Necessary but Insufficient | Editor’s Note: Al-Shabaab, the al-Qaeda-aligned militant group in Somalia, has a strong presence throughout the country and, in recent years, has increased its efforts to target the United States. Tricia Bacon of American University assesse... |
| Apr 11, 2022 | Google is suing a person it says ran a puppy-breeder website scam that ripped off hopeful pet owners | Google is suing a person named Nche Noel Ntse alleging they run fraudulent websites.
In its lawsuit, the tech giant said the websites scammed people looking to buy basset hounds.
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| Mar 30, 2022 | The Military Is Making Progress in Its Counter-Extremism Efforts, but Gaps Remain | The Department of Defense released its Report on Countering Extremist Activity Within the Department of Defense in December 2021. The report is the product of a months-long effort by the Countering Extremist Activity Working Group (CEAWG), ... |
| Feb 28, 2022 | The First Trial of a Capitol Riot Defendant: A Shock-and-Awe Campaign of Video, Audio, and Other Digital Evidence | “The revolution will not be televised,” Gil Scott Heron said. Well, maybe not. But the Jan. 6 insurrection sure was.
On Monday, when Capitol riot defendant Guy Reffitt, of Wylie, Texas, goes to trial before a federal jury in Washington, D.C... |
| Jan 21, 2022 | What Does the Seditious Conspiracy Indictment Mean For the Oath Keepers? | The Oath Keepers, one of the premier anti-government movements in the United States that boasts a purported membership in the thousands, is facing an existential threat. The group is already under pressure from the arrests of dozens of its ... |
| Jan 11, 2022 | UNO counterterrorism experts find surprises in Capitol riot arrest data | The Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol has caused a “sea change” in how the federal government views the threat of domestic extremists, say researchers affiliated with the University of Nebraska at Omaha’s counterterrorism center.
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| Jan 6, 2022 | Assessing Domestic Violent Extremism One Year After the Capitol Siege | The year after the siege of the United States Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 has been an understandably momentous one for domestic extremism and counterterrorism in the United States. Just days after the Capitol siege, the Department of Justice an... |
| Jan 3, 2022 | The D.C. District Court and the Jan. 6 Cases | As the first anniversary of the Jan. 6 siege of the Capitol approaches, the work of the congressional committee investigating the attack continues to dominate the headlines. The congressional inquiry is important for the American people to ... |
| Nov 10, 2021 | Counterterrorism Successes Against Foreign Fighters | As I wrote in my book “Road Warriors” and in a recent spinoff article in Political Science Quarterly, jihadists who travel abroad to fight and train—foreign fighters—can become highly lethal terrorists. This danger has received renewed atte... |
| Nov 4, 2021 | What Do—and Will—the Criminal Prosecutions of the Jan. 6 Capitol Rioters Tell Us? | Chief Judge Beryl Howell of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia blasted the government on Oct. 28 for its “schizophrenic,” “baffling,” and “muddled” policies in offering lenient plea deals to Jan. 6 Capitol riot defendants ... |
| Oct 31, 2021 | The Taliban Haven’t Changed, But U.S. Policy Must | Editor’s Note: With the United States defeated in Afghanistan and the Taliban in power, it is tempting to minimize the impact of the disaster by contending that, this time around, the Taliban will no longer be the terrorist-supporting, huma... |
| Oct 27, 2021 | Afghanistan and American Jihadists: More Inspiration, Less Destination | The day after the United States completed the withdrawal of its military presence from Afghanistan, we received a handwritten letter at our Program on Extremism office from an American in federal prison serving a decades-long sentence for s... |
| Oct 11, 2021 | Are the Jan. 6 Plea Deals Too Lenient? | On Sept. 28, Dawn Bancroft pleaded guilty to illegally parading, demonstrating or picketing in the Capitol on Jan. 6. Bancroft was arrested after a concerned friend sent the FBI a selfie-style video of Bancroft and another woman as they wer... |
| Sep 13, 2021 | NEW: Brian Fitzpatrick Gives Legal Advice and Writes Legislation to Aid Top Donor Who Bused Hundreds to January 6th | This morning, Rolling Stone released an in-depth report on Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick's close relationship with Jim Worthington, a donor and close confidant who organized a January 6th bus trip and this summer hosted a major fundraiser for Fitz... |
| Aug 31, 2021 | Capitol riot lawyer John Pierce goes missing with Covid excuse and 17 pending cases, prosecutors say | John Pierce — a lawyer representing 17 criminal defendants in Jan. 6 Capitol riot cases — has gone missing from court appearances amid excuses that include a claim he is hospitalized with Covid-19.
Pierce’s clients include members of far-ri... |
| Jun 2, 2021 | Justice Department secures 2nd guilty plea stemming from Capitol riot | Sign up for our daily briefingMake your busy days simpler with Axios AM/PM. Catch up on what's new and why it matters in just 5 minutes.
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| May 24, 2021 | An Assessment of the U.S. Government’s Domestic Terrorism Assessment | Late in the afternoon on Friday, May 14, the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security released one of the more consequential national security reports you likely never heard of. The document, put out in consultation with the director of ... |
| May 20, 2021 | Adding Domestic Extremists to the No-Fly List | Introduction
Recent reports have indicated that the Biden administration is contemplating adding domestic extremists—including some of the Jan. 6 riot participants—to the terrorism No Fly List. These stories come in the aftermath of the att... |
| May 16, 2021 | The Islamic State Is in Congo. What Now? | Editor’s Note: The Islamic State has suffered numerous body blows since it declared its caliphate in 2014. The group has lost its territory in Iraq and Syria, and the United States and its allies have killed or captured many of its leaders.... |
| May 6, 2021 | The Justice Department Shouldn’t Open the Pandora’s Box of Seditious Conspiracy | The Justice Department’s pursuit of criminal charges against the perpetrators of the Jan. 6 mob invasion of the Capitol is gathering steam, and in late March, the former leading federal prosecutor in the complex investigation made a surpris... |
| Apr 14, 2021 | With The Capitol Riot In The Rearview, Companies Should Prioritize Domestic Threat Vigilance | New York Times best-selling author, former special agent and security expert who helms the Ontic Center for Protective Intelligence. |
| Mar 16, 2021 | Lawfare Live: The Aftermath of the Jan. 6 Capitol Siege | This Friday, March 19, at 10 a.m. EST, Seamus Hughes, the deputy director of the Program on Extremism at George Washington University, will join Benjamin Wittes, Lawfare editor-in-chief, and Alan Rozenshtein, Lawfare contributing editor, to... |
| Feb 16, 2021 | How the Federal Government Investigates and Prosecutes Domestic Terrorism | In the aftermath of the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, many politicians, including President Biden, and public commentators called for renewed efforts by the federal government to combat domestic terrorism. That reaction followed a patter... |
| Feb 8, 2021 | In court documents about the pro-Trump riots at the Capitol, Facebook is cited far more than any other social network | Court documents related to the Capitol riots on January 6 mention Facebook more than any other social-media site.
A George Washington University group is cataloging court documents about those arrested in connection with the riots.
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| Feb 2, 2021 | The Capitol riot revealed a political chasm among American Jews, who are split over Trumpism and the far-right | Riots at the US Capitol Building. Michael Nigro/Pacific Press:LightRocket/Getty
Jewish Americans have been politically divided over support for Trump.
The pro-Trump Capitol riot on January 6 that featured at least one Holocaust reference sh... |
| Jan 21, 2021 | Kicking people off social media isn’t about free speech | Within days of the January 6 Capitol insurrection, outgoing President Donald Trump’s internet presence was in upheaval. Trump’s social media accounts were suspended across Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, Snapchat, Twitch, and TikTok.... |
| Jan 20, 2021 | The FBI Wants to Know Why This Arrested Proud Boy Was Wearing a Walkie-Talkie Inside the Capitol | “Fuck Around and Find Out” is a popular adage among the Proud Boys. They’ve printed it on T-shirts, and even released a music video with its acronym “F.A.F.O.”
Now they may be learning the true meaning of their own mantra. A prominent organ... |
| Jan 19, 2021 | Facebook Confirms It’s Preserving Account Data Related To Capitol Hill Riot Investigations | Facebook is making sure that profiles related to the Capitol Hill riots are preserved for police to ... [+] review before they're deleted. The social network should be able to provide a valuable trove of information on those who attended th... |
| Sep 6, 2020 | To Prevent Extremist Violence in the United States, Think Beyond the Homeland Security Box | Editor’s Note: The Department of Homeland Security has long taken the lead in U.S. programs to counter violent extremism (CVE). This has contributed to concerns about the over-securitization of CVE programs. Eric Rosand, a Brookings nonresi... |
| Aug 31, 2020 | How the Coronavirus Is Affecting American Jihadist Travelers | The coronavirus pandemic has slowed global travel across the board. Countries around the world have cut down on air traffic, enforced quarantine measures for arriving travelers and blacklisted other countries from inbound travel. With all t... |
| Aug 26, 2020 | Cryptocurrency and the Dismantling of Terrorism Financing Campaigns | The Department of Justice announced on Aug. 13 that U.S. counterterrorism authorities dismantled a series of sophisticated online fundraising campaigns run by three separate U.S.-designated terrorist organizations. The takedown of these net... |
| Jul 27, 2020 | Rethinking Domestic Terrorism Law After Boogaloo Movement Attacks | On May 29, two contracted Federal Protective Service officers were shot outside the Ronald V. Dellums Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse in Oakland, California. Several days later, the alleged perpetrator, Steven Carrillo reportedly shot ... |
| Jul 13, 2020 | White Supremacist Prosecutions Roundup | The United States faces a growing terrorism problem from the far right and white supremacists.
Since 9/11, national counterterrorism strategies have focused largely on foreign terrorist groups—like the Islamic State and al-Qaeda—and federal... |
| Mar 24, 2020 | What Is Happening With the Foreign Women and Children in SDF Custody in Syria? | British-born Shamina Begum is a U.K. citizen no more. In February 2019, the British government stripped citizenship from Begum, who fled for Syria at age 15 to join the Islamic State.
The U.K. Special Immigration Appeals Commission (SIAC) d... |
| Feb 21, 2020 | Prosecutions of International Terrorist Supporters Continue: Winter 2019 Update | A recent U.N. report warned about both the continued threat posed by Islamic State fighters and the challenges related to the effective prosecution of returned fighters and those who are financing terrorism.
Meanwhile, the U.S. Department o... |
| Feb 2, 2020 | Terrorists and Technological Innovation | Often when terrorists use new technology, they bungle it—the new bomb design does not detonate or the new video technology fails to upload. Yet terrorists often quickly master new technologies and use them in unanticipated ways. Daveed Gart... |
| Dec 1, 2019 | America’s Anti-Islamic State Volunteers | Editor’s Note: The issue of foreign fighters for the Islamic State has received tremendous attention, but numerous foreigners have also gone to Iraq and Syria to fight against the terrorist group. Shashi Jayakumar of the S. Rajaratnam Schoo... |
| Nov 17, 2019 | Trinidad’s Islamic State Problem | Editor’s Note: One of the least known, but most alarming, aspects of the Islamic State is its ability to draw recruits and sympathizers from around the world, including from many countries not known as hotbeds of radicalism. On a per-capita... |
| Nov 15, 2019 | Canadian Islamic State Suspect Extradited to the United States | Abdullahi Ahmed Abdullahi, a Canadian national and former San Diego resident, appeared in U.S. federal court on Oct. 25, following his extradition from Canada to the United States on terror charges. Abdullahi lived in Minneapolis and San Di... |
| Nov 10, 2019 | The Fractured Terrorism Threat to America | Editor’s Note: The terrorism threat to the United States is evolving constantly, shaped both by the rise and decline of terrorist groups at home and abroad and by changes in U.S. counterterrorism policy. Seamus Hughes and Devorah Margolin o... |
| Oct 28, 2019 | Terrorism Prosecution Updates: Spring to Late Summer, 2019 | The U.S. withdrawal from northern Syria and the subsequent Turkish invasion of the region has brought new urgency to the question of how to handle the foreign fighters who are now detained in Syria and Iraq. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper ... |
| Oct 23, 2019 | Islamic State Affiliate Seeks to Expand in Afghanistan | Afghan intelligence officials reportedly captured a deputy leader of the Islamic State-Khorasan (the Islamic State’s affiliate in Afghanistan, also referred to as ISK) near the city of Herat in September. Herat is more than 1,000 kilometers... |
| Oct 18, 2019 | Addressing the National Security Threat of White Supremacist Terrorism | In 2018, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) tracked 50 extremist-related murders, 49 of which were committed by far-right extremists and the majority specifically perpetrated by white supremacists. In the past decade, far-right extremists wer... |
| Aug 4, 2019 | Revisiting Marawi: Women and the Struggle Against the Islamic State in the Philippines | Editor’s Note: The Islamic State’s crimes against women are well known, but it has also managed to appeal to women to join the fight directly or otherwise support the group. Too often, however, governments fail to recognize this risk. Kiril... |
| Jun 30, 2019 | How Content Removal Might Help Terrorists | In recent years, counterterrorism policy has focused on making social media platforms hostile environments for terrorists and their sympathizers. From the German NetzDG law to the U.K.’s Online Harms White Paper, governments are making it c... |
| Jun 6, 2019 | De-platforming and the Online Extremist’s Dilemma | During the past several years, platforms like Twitter,YouTube and Facebook have used a combination of automated detection and human review to identify and remove extremist accounts and content from their sites—in effect “de-platforming” ext... |
| Mar 21, 2019 | International Terrorism Prosecutions During Winter 2019 | Introduction
Although the Washington Post reports the FBI has arrested more domestic terrorism suspects than international terror suspects over the past two years, recent months have seen foreign fighters who joined the Islamic State return... |
| Mar 10, 2019 | Trump’s Domestic Countering Violent Extremism Policies Look a Lot Like Obama’s | Editor’s Note: Programs to counter violent extremism seemed under siege in the early days of the Trump administration, with officials questioning their focus and very purpose. Seamus Hughes and Haroro J. Ingram, of the Program on Extremism ... |
| Jan 9, 2019 | Sixteen-Year-Old American Islamic State Fighter Reportedly Captured in Syria | On Jan. 9, the People’s Defense Units (YPG) announced the capture of eight individuals, ostensibly foreign fighters for the Islamic State, in a series of operations conducted by the group near the town of Deir-ez-Zor in eastern Syria. Repor... |
| Jan 8, 2019 | International Terrorism Prosecutions: 2018 Wrap-Up | In the past few months, prosecutors have tried, juries have convicted, and judges have sentenced defendants from the height of the Islamic State’s power in 2014–15. Meanwhile, American law enforcement continues to prosecute individuals invo... |
| Aug 1, 2018 | Prosecuting the Islamic State Fighters Left Behind | The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces captured an American-Saudi dual citizen last September suspected to be a member of the Islamic State. Because of his citizenship, he was quickly transferred to Defense Department custody and is being... |
| May 6, 2018 | Gray Media Under the Black and White Banner | Editor’s Note: Although Internet comments have made great strides in trying to combat extremist content online, they have a long way to go. In particular, much of what jihadists use for propaganda is non-violent or otherwise doesn't neatly ... |
| Apr 27, 2018 | Whose Responsibility Is It to Confront Terrorism Online? | This week, Facebook and YouTube announced new data on removal of terrorist content on their platforms. Facebook also released its internal document clarifying what content stays online and what is deleted. YouTube, under Google’s broader ef... |
| Mar 7, 2018 | The Only Islamic State-Funded Plot in the U.S.: The Curious Case of Mohamed Elshinawy | Most terrorism cases in the United States follow a well-worn narrative. An individual, usually young and male, reaches out looking to join the Islamic State. He connects with a supporter who feeds his dreams of committing an attack in his o... |
| Feb 6, 2018 | Threat of ISIS fighters returning to the U.S. is “miniscule compared to other countries,” experts say | The threat of ISIS soldiers returning to the U.S. has not lived up to the expectation, according to a new study.
The report, by George Washington University's Program on Extremism, finds that far fewer Americans lured by the Islamic State’s... |
| Feb 4, 2018 | Is President Trump Enabling the Islamic State’s Power of Persuasion? | Editor’s Note: Terrorists' use of the Internet in all its forms remains an important source of their power and influence. Michael Smith, an analyst focusing on jihadist influence operations, calls for a much more aggressive set of governmen... |
| Jan 21, 2018 | Marginalizing Violent Extremism Online | Editor’s Note: The call to take down terrorist-linked content on the Internet is both sensible and limited in its effectiveness. Terrorists use many different aspects of the Internet for many different purposes, and taking down propaganda a... |
| Sep 4, 2017 | International Terrorism Prosecutions: Spring and Summer Wrap-Up | Since President Trump fired Jim Comey as FBI director, the FBI has received quite a bit of attention. More than 19.5 million people tuned in to watch former director Comey testify before the Senate Intelligence Committee, and shortly therea... |
| Aug 28, 2017 | Warrant Affidavit Shows How Easy It Is To Bilk The Government Out Of Excess Equipment | Seamus Hughes, the Deputy Director of George Washington University’s Program on Extremism, happened across an extraordinary story — told in warrant affidavit form — of a man who faked up a research lab and started scoring himself truckloads... |
| Aug 17, 2017 | In Search of Data on White Supremacist Violent Crime | A cursory Google search for statistics on international terrorism, including acts committed on U.S. soil by individuals linked to foreign terrorist organizations, yields a gold mine. You can sort by group, country, or year. Curious about ho... |
| Jul 2, 2017 | The Islamic State’s Married Ideology: Something Borrowed, Something New | Editor’s Note: The Islamic State and al-Qaeda are often, correctly, portrayed as bitter rivals: They compete for recruits and money, and in Syria their forces have repeatedly turned their guns on each other. Yet the line is blurrier when it... |
| Jun 18, 2017 | Why the United States Needs Foreign Law Enforcement to Succeed Against the Islamic State | Editor’s Note: American leaders have long recognized that police and other law-enforcement officials are on counterterrorism's front lines and that foreign governments play a vital role in disrupting terrorist organizations. Unfortunately, ... |
| 5 bombshells we hope drop at Tuesday's Jan. 6 committee hearing on extremist groups and the 'mob on the Mall' | An Oath Keeper from Idaho in Bozeman, Montana. William Campbell/Corbis via Getty Images
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