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Extremism News Roundup

February 10, 2026

Eye on Extremism: February 10, 2026

Four months into a ceasefire with Hamas, the Israeli military is drawing up plans for a renewed offensive in the Gaza Strip to disarm the terror group by force, The Times of Israel has learned. Times of Israel: IDF readying new Gaza offensive to...

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February 9, 2026

Eye on Extremism: February 9, 2026

A senior Hamas leader said Sunday that the Palestinian Islamist terror group would neither surrender its weapons nor accept foreign intervention in Gaza, pushing back against US and Israeli demands. “Criminalizing the resistance, its weapons, and...

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February 6, 2026

Eye on Extremism: February 6, 2026

Al-Qaeda issued a statement last Tuesday urging “jihad” against U.S. and Israeli forces, specifically targeting American aircraft carriers deployed to the Middle East in recent weeks. The group described the U.S. military presence as “part of a...

Extremism News Roundup

February 5, 2026

Eye on Extremism: February 5, 2026

U.S. Central Command recently launched fresh strikes against Islamic State targets in Syria, continuing its retaliatory campaign after the December killings of two American soldiers and a civilian interpreter in an ambush. Between Jan. 27 and Feb. 2...

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February 4, 2026

Eye on Extremism: February 4, 2026

Armed extremists killed at least 162 people during attacks on two villages in western Nigeria, a lawmaker said Wednesday, in one of the deadliest assaults in recent months. The attacks targeted the villages of Woro and Nuku in the state of Kwara on...

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February 3, 2026

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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February 2, 2026

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...

Extremism News Roundup

January 30, 2026

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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January 29, 2026

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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January 28, 2026

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...