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Eye on Extremism: September 17, 2026
Australia’s Foreign Ministry says it is pursuing legal action with international partners, including Canada, Germany and the Netherlands, to hold the Taliban accountable for widespread violations of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of...
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Eye on Extremism: September 16, 2026
Saudi warplanes pounded Yemen and Houthi fighters launched drones and missiles at Saudi cities, the Iran-backed movement said on Wednesday, after a lightning advance that has extended Tehran's reach in the Middle East war. Reuters: Saudis pound Yemen...
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Eye on Extremism: September 15, 2026
Two deadlines are looming for Iraq at the end of the month: the end of a decades-long U.S. military presence and the disarmament of non-state armed groups. The U.S. withdrawal is underway, and officials say the hundreds of troops remaining in...
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Eye on Extremism: September 14, 2026
Taliban spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid on Sunday denied the presence of al-Qaeda in Afghanistan, rejecting a Washington Post report that cited Western security officials and a UN body as saying the group is active again in the country. Afghanistan...
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Eye on Extremism: September 11, 2026
Twenty-five years after the deadliest attack on U.S. soil, Americans paused on Friday to commemorate the nearly 3,000 people killed when hijacked planes slammed into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a field in Pennsylvania — and to wrestle...
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Eye on Extremism: September 10, 2026
Hours after the Islamic Republic’s Foreign Ministry spokesman denied Houthi dependency on Tehran, the “Yemeni National Resistance” claimed to have uncovered documents detailing the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ (IRGC) military strategy for the...
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Eye on Extremism: September 9, 2026
Iran spent decades building up armed groups on Israel’s frontiers that suffered major losses in the wars following Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack out of Gaza. Israel battered the Palestinian militants as well as Lebanon’s Hezbollah, which had been Iran...
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Eye on Extremism: September 8, 2026
A quarter of a century after the Al-Qaeda attacks on the United States, jihadist groups still pose a major threat to security in Europe, but a new menace has surfaced that is driven mostly by young people online and the authorities are worried...
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Eye on Extremism: September 4, 2026
In a recent social-media video, the top far-right leader in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt rode a powder-blue moped down a sunny country lane. It was the sort of optimistic, genial clip that has helped that leader, Ulrich Siegmund, appeal to...
Extremism News Roundup
Eye on Extremism: September 3, 2026
Iran has warned the United States that it would respond forcefully to an Israeli offensive on a mountainous ridge in southern Lebanon where Iranian military personnel are holed up alongside Hezbollah fighters, three officials briefed on the message...
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