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Extremism News Roundup
Eye on Extremism: August 18, 2026
Taliban spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid told Afghanistan International that the explosion at a school in western Kabul may have been carried out by Islamic State or “groups affiliated with it.” He said an investigation was under way and Taliban...
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Eye on Extremism: August 17, 2026
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said on Monday that the force would respond to any threat with “maximum deterrence” and “powerful offensive operations.” Iran International: IRGC says it will crush threats with ‘powerful offensive operations’...
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Eye on Extremism: August 14, 2026
Syria and Iraq have agreed to form judicial committees to oversee the cases of ISIS prisoners who were transferred from Syrian detention facilities to Iraqi prisons this year. The National: Syria and Iraq agree to form judicial committees to review...
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Eye on Extremism: August 13, 2026
Israel won’t withdraw from southern Lebanon until Hezbollah is disarmed, the defence minister said on Thursday, qualifying remarks he made a day earlier that had suggested Israeli forces would occupy the territory indefinitely and drew U.S...
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Eye on Extremism: August 12, 2026
Andrei Grozin, head of the Central Asia department at the CIS Institute, said the risk of militant and international terrorist groups infiltrating from Afghanistan remains the main reason for annual military exercises in the region. According to the...
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Eye on Extremism: August 11, 2026
Three crew members were killed in a suspected attack by Iran-backed Houthis on a small cargo vessel in the Bab el-Mandeb strait on Tuesday while a container ship was hit by a missile off Pakistan in a suspected U.S. attack, sources said. Reuters...
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Eye on Extremism: August 10, 2026
Iran said it was nearing a final pact with Oman defining new shipping lanes between them through the Strait of Hormuz but repeated that the U.S. must meet other conditions, including compensation and an end to sanctions and military threats, before...
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Eye on Extremism: August 7, 2026
Attacks by the Iran-aligned Houthis on a military camp in Yemen and in Saudi Arabia have sparked concerns that the Middle East crisis will continue to spiral. Yemen is being increasingly drawn into the US-Israeli war with Iran, with the Houthi rebels...
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Eye on Extremism: August 6, 2026
Iran has warned Gulf states that any new U.S. attack on its territory would trigger retaliation against critical energy infrastructure across the region, according to five sources, as Tehran seeks to raise the cost of military action by threatening...
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Eye on Extremism: August 5, 2026
President Donald Trump said the Strait of Hormuz would be reopened “very soon” or Iran would be “hit very hard.” However, Iranian state media today reported that any potential agreement between Iran and Oman on the future of the critical waterway has...
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