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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...
CounterPoint Blog
Reintegration of Foreign Terrorist Fighters in the European Union: Challenges and Ways Forward
This blog entry is the third in a three-part series focusing on foreign fighters from Italy fighting for Russia in the war against Ukraine. The first entry describes a network of neo-Nazi and neo-fascist extremists in Italy who fought on the side of...
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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...
Extremism News Roundup
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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Extremist Content Online: White Supremacist Active Clubs Spread Propaganda on Meta-Owned Instagram
Extremist Content Online: White Supremacist Active Clubs Spread Propaganda on Meta-Owned Instagram The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) reports on the methods used by extremists and terrorist groups on the Internet to spread propaganda and incite...
Extremism News Roundup
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...
Extremism News Roundup
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...
CounterPoint Blog
The Divine Problem of Hamas's Weapons
U.S. President Donald Trump considers himself a masterful negotiator who can cut a deal with anybody. In his first term, he successfully negotiated the Abraham Accords, forging a long-missing peace between Israel and multiple Arab countries in the...
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