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Reflecting on Two Months of War Against Hamas
December 7 marks exactly two months since Hamas ’s vicious surprise assault on Israel, when it massacred at least 1,200 and took more than 240 hostage into Gaza. While Hamas released around 100 hostages during a weeklong ceasefire in November, the...

ISIS Redux: The Central Syria Insurgency in November 2023
Following is the November 2023 installment of “ISIS Redux: The Central Syria Insurgency,” a monthly chronicle of attacks by the terrorist group ISIS in central Syria. A review of developments throughout 2022 and 2021 can be found here and here . The...

Violence-Oriented Right-Wing Extremist Actors in Russia: Rusich - Part 1
During the past decade and a half, extremist non-state actors in Russia have become a central element of the violent transnational right-wing extremist milieu. The Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2014 and particularly its re-invasion of the country in...

CEP – KAS: Sahel Monitoring October 2023
The eleventh monthly report monitoring the activities of al-Qaeda and Islamic State branches throughout the Sahel will focus on the propaganda output of these groups in October 2023.

ISIS Redux: The Central Syria Insurgency in October 2023
Following is the October 2023 installment of “ISIS Redux: The Central Syria Insurgency,” a monthly chronicle of attacks by the terrorist group ISIS in central Syria. ISIS carried out at least 19 confirmed attacks in October in the Homs, Hama, Raqqa...

Violence-Oriented Right-Wing Extremist Actors in Russia: Night Wolves - Part 2
During the past decade and a half, extremist non-state actors in Russia have become a central element of the violent transnational right-wing extremist milieu. The Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2014 and particularly its re-invasion of the country in...
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Extremists: Their Words. Their Actions.
Fact:
On October 27, 2018, domestic terrorist Robert D. Bowers carried out an anti-Semitic attack at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh. He fired on congregants as they gathered for worship, killing 11 people and wounding six others.
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