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Extremism News Roundup
Eye on Extremism: October 30, 2026
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps says two oil tankers have been halted after encountering unspecified “incidents” while attempting to transit what Tehran considers an unauthorized route in the Strait of Hormuz. AFP: Iran’s IRGC says two...
Extremism News Roundup
Eye on Extremism: October 29, 2026
Iran has harnessed a military-financial complex of 5,000 agencies to bring in components, explosives and heavy-duty trucks critical to its drone and missile programs. Even during the war, deliveries reached Iran by land, sea and air. Reuters: Iran’s...
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Eye on Extremism: October 28, 2026
Yemen’s Houthis attacked Aden airport on Wednesday, government officials said, after the Iran-aligned group warned people to evacuate the facility as fighting escalated in the impoverished country caught in the wider Middle East conflict. Reuters...
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Eye on Extremism: October 27, 2026
Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis said on Tuesday they had hit Saudi Arabia's Ras Tanura oil refinery, the biggest in the kingdom, with a ballistic missile. The Houthis also said they had attacked Saudi military aircraft and repelled an advance by Saudi...
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Eye on Extremism: October 26, 2026
Top officials from Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan met Iranian officials in Tehran on Monday in a bid to de-escalate the Middle East conflict, as Yemen’s Houthis launched new attacks on Saudi Arabia and Egypt approved defence support for the Gulf...
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Eye on Extremism: October 23, 2026
A gunman killed one person and wounded four more on Friday in what authorities suspect was a terrorist attack targeting an ethnically diverse area outside the French capital. French officials said the gunman was in a car and used an automatic firearm...
Extremism News Roundup
Eye on Extremism: October 22, 2026
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy said on Thursday that four vessels involved in illegal oil transfers in the northern Persian Gulf were simultaneously hit and caught fire after being tracked by its forces on Wednesday. Reuters: Iran's...
Extremism News Roundup
Eye on Extremism: October 21, 2026
Europe’s far-right leaders have jumped on the violence that rocked numerous cities last weekend, framing it as the inevitable consequence of failed liberal governance and open-border policies and insisting only they can restore law and order. The...
Extremism News Roundup
Eye on Extremism: October 20, 2026
Hossein Mohebi, spokesman for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), highlighted the communication cables beneath the Strait of Hormuz, declaring them among the IRGC’s “new targets.” He also warned that any renewed US military action, even on...
Extremism News Roundup
Eye on Extremism: October 19, 2026
President Donald Trump is calling out open border policies as looting and protests leave nearly 1,000 French police officers injured and about 2,400 people arrested. “The migrants have taken over France,” Trump wrote Monday in a Truth Social post....
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