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Eye on Extremism: February 3, 2026
The UN Security Council is set to vote on extending the mandate of the monitoring team supporting the Afghanistan 1988 Sanctions Committee, a move that would keep Taliban-linked individuals and entities under UN sanctions. The monitoring team’s...
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Eye on Extremism: February 2, 2026
Pakistan’s chief minister of Balochistan said security forces killed 145 militants within 40 hours following coordinated attacks across the province. Sarfraz Bugti told a news conference in Quetta on Sunday that the bodies of those killed were in the...
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Eye on Extremism: January 30, 2026
The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces announced a new agreement Friday with the country’s central government intended to stabilize a ceasefire that ended weeks of fighting and to lay out the steps toward integration between the two sides. Under...
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Eye on Extremism: January 29, 2026
EU foreign ministers agreed Thursday to designate Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a "terrorist" group, the bloc's foreign policy chief, Kaja Kallas, said. "Any regime that kills thousands of its own people is working toward its own...
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Eye on Extremism: January 28, 2026
Ambassador Deborah Lipstadt, the former U.S. envoy to monitor and combat antisemitism, told Jewish Insider on Tuesday that she’s concerned by the increased pace of antisemitic rhetoric coming from Saudi Arabia, and warned that an extended change of...
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Eye on Extremism: January 27, 2026
Top Stories Associated Press: World pauses to commemorate International Holocaust Remembrance Day Holocaust survivors, politicians and regular people commemorated International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Tuesday, gathering at events held across...
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Eye on Extremism: January 26, 2026
Two Iranian-backed militias in the Mideast are signaling their willingness to launch new attacks, likely trying to back Iran on Monday as it worried about an approaching U.S. aircraft carrier after President Donald Trump threatened military action...
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Eye on Extremism: January 23, 2026
A U.S. appeals court on Friday reinstated a lawsuit claiming some of the world’s largest drug and medical‑device companies paid millions of dollars in cash and medical supplies that helped to fund terrorism that killed or injured hundreds of American...
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Eye on Extremism: January 22, 2026
Iraq's Supreme Judicial Council said on Thursday it would begin legal proceedings against Islamic State detainees transferred from Syria, after the rapid collapse of Kurdish-led forces in northeast Syria triggered concerns over prison security. More...
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Eye on Extremism: January 21, 2026
Questions have emerged over the fate of thousands of ISIS prisoners in northeast Syria after government forces seized swathes of territory long controlled by Kurdish forces who had been guarding the prisons. The territory was held by the mainly...
The Counter Extremism Project Presents
Enduring Music: Compositions from the Holocaust
Marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Counter Extremism Project's ARCHER at House 88 presents a landmark concert of music composed in ghettos and death camps, performed in defiance of resurgent antisemitism. Curated with world renowned composer, conductor, and musicologist Francesco Lotoro, the program restores classical, folk, and popular works, many written on scraps of paper or recalled from memory, to public consciousness. Featuring world and U.S. premieres from Lotoro's archive, this concert honors a repertoire that endured against unimaginable evil.