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Extremism News Roundup

May 23, 2025

Eye on Extremism: May 23, 2025

A Chicago-born man arrested as the lone suspect in the fatal shooting of two Israeli embassy employees in Washington was charged on Thursday in federal court with two counts of first-degree murder in a killing widely condemned as an act of...

Extremism News Roundup

May 22, 2025

Eye on Extremism: May 22, 2025

Two Israeli embassy staff were killed in a shooting outside an event at the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, DC, on Wednesday night, and a suspect is in custody, according to officials and media reports. man and a woman were shot and killed in...

Extremism News Roundup

May 21, 2025

Eye on Extremism: May 21, 2025

At least three children were among five people killed when a suicide bomber struck an army school bus in Pakistan's restive Balochistan province, the military said on Wednesday, in an attack Pakistan blamed on Indian proxies. Around 40 students were...

Extremism News Roundup

May 20, 2025

Eye on Extremism: May 20, 2025

People accused of helping the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) should face the “full weight of the law” under a planned crackdown, a government adviser has said. The Home Office will this week publish a report by Jonathan Hall, the Government...

Extremism News Roundup

May 19, 2025

Eye on Extremism: May 19, 2025

Top leaders of Palestinian Islamist group Hamas launched their Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel aiming to torpedo peace negotiations between Israel and Saudi Arabia, according to minutes of a high-level meeting in Gaza that Israel’s military said it...

Extremism News Roundup

May 16, 2025

Eye on Extremism: May 16, 2025

A West African al Qaeda affiliate said it killed 200 soldiers in an attack on an army base in Burkina Faso this week, sharply increasing its earlier death toll claim, according to a group that tracks the online activity of Islamist militants. Jama'a...

Extremism News Roundup

May 15, 2025

Eye on Extremism: May 15, 2025

Al Qaeda affiliate JNIM has claimed responsibility for an attack targeting a military post in Burkina Faso's northern Loroum province in which the group said 60 soldiers were killed, the SITE Intelligence Group said on Tuesday. The U.S.-based non...

Extremism News Roundup

May 14, 2025

Eye on Extremism: May 14, 2025

President Donald Trump told Gulf leaders on Wednesday he urgently wants “to make a deal” with Iran to wind down its nuclear program but Tehran must end its support of proxy groups throughout the region as part of any potential agreement. Iran “must...

Extremism News Roundup

May 13, 2025

Eye on Extremism: May 13, 2025

The Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militant group, which has been locked in bloody conflict with Turkey for more than four decades, has decided to disband and end its armed struggle, group members and Turkish leaders said on Monday. Since the PKK...

Extremism News Roundup

May 12, 2025

Eye on Extremism: May 12, 2025

Hamas will release Israeli-American hostage Edan Alexander from Gaza on Monday, the Palestinian militant group said, but Israel's prime minister said there would be no ceasefire and plans for an intensified military campaign would continue. Fighting...

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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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