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On April 3, 2017, the day Vladimir Putin was due to visit the city, a suicide bombing was carried out in the St. Petersburg metro, killing 15 people and injuring 64. An al-Qaeda affiliate, Imam Shamil Battalion, claimed responsibility.
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Nearly a year ago, the Counter Extremism Project launched with a mission to combat radicalism online and in the real world. Now, they’re holding a high-profile event tied to the U.N. General Assembly — with the State Department, the White House...
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Egypt’s Dar al-Iftaa will present its experience in promoting dialogue of civilizations and countering extremism, at the Global Youth Summit Against Violent Extremism Monday, Adviser of Grand Mufti Ibrahim Negm stated. Some of Dar al-Iftaa’s efforts...
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Yousef Bartho Assidiq was on the path toward terrorism, part of a group whose members discussed beheadings and mass attacks. Now he tries to stop other youths from getting radicalized in his native Norway. Assidiq’s story of conversion to Islam and...
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National security hawks pressing social media companies to help the U.S. government's online fight against the Islamic State are adopting a new strategy: single out Twitter as the most uncooperative. That message will be on display next week in New...
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On September 16, the Counter Extremism Project (CEP) announced it will co-host the “One95: Global Youth Summit Against Violent Extremism,” an event supported by the U.S Department of State and driven by the power and ideas of young people in the...
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“All rise,” said the bailiff as Judge Claude M. Hilton entered his courtroom in Alexandria, Virginia on a late August morning. Seventeen-year-old Ali Shukri Amin was being sentenced for providing material support to a terror organization. Everyone...
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It appears coalition airstrikes may have caught up to a French foreign fighter who was peddling advanced bomb-making skills for an al-Qaida cell in Syria. A U.S. official speaking on the condition of anonymity told VOA the Khorasan Group’s David...
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In the spring of 1995, 20-year-old Brandeis University student Alisa Flatow, who was studying at a women’s seminary in Israel, boarded a bus bound for the beach. She never reached her destination. A suicide bomber from Iranian-sponsored Palestinian...
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A 21-year-old British hacker who was a member of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) was killed in a U.S. military airstrike earlier this week, the Pentagon confirmed Friday. "We can confirm that Junaid Hussain, an ISIS operative was killed in...
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The almost singular focus by the United States and some of its coalition partners on defeating the group known as the Islamic State appears to be giving new life to the group's chief rival. U.S. intelligence officials say despite hitting a low point...
Extremists: Their Words. Their Actions.
Fact:
On April 3, 2017, the day Vladimir Putin was due to visit the city, a suicide bombing was carried out in the St. Petersburg metro, killing 15 people and injuring 64. An al-Qaeda affiliate, Imam Shamil Battalion, claimed responsibility.
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