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Extremism News Roundup

July 11, 2025

Eye on Extremism: July 11, 2025

United Nations sanctions monitors have seen no "active ties" this year between Al Qaeda and the Islamist group leading Syria's interim government, an unpublished U.N. report said, a finding that could strengthen an expected U.S. push for removing U.N...

Extremism News Roundup

July 10, 2025

Eye on Extremism: July 10, 2025

A new report by United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI) is urging the U.S. government to impose sanctions on senior Iranian clerics and regime-controlled institutions that have issued or promoted Islamic legal rulings — known as fatwas — calling for the...

Extremism News Roundup

July 9, 2025

Eye on Extremism: July 9, 2025

Google co-founder Sergey Brin called the United Nations “transparently antisemitic” on Saturday in an internal forum for employees, according to screenshots reviewed by The Washington Post and verified with a current member of the forum. His comments...

Extremism News Roundup

July 8, 2025

Eye on Extremism: July 8, 2025

Al-Qaeda affiliate Jama'at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM) is the main group behind a surge in militant jihadist attacks sweeping across several West African nations, especially Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger. On 1 July, the group said it had...

Extremism News Roundup

July 7, 2025

Eye on Extremism: July 7, 2025

The July 7 2005 attacks were a watershed moment for the now-head of the Metropolitan Police’s counter-terrorism squad, who drove to London to help in the aftermath of the atrocities and remained in the capital for the next two decades. In 2005...

Extremism News Roundup

July 3, 2025

Eye on Extremism: July 3, 2025

The Buchenwald Concentration Camp Memorial attracts hundreds of thousands of visitors every year - for most, it is a place of silent remembrance. But right-wing extremists are increasingly disrupting the commemoration with provocative performances...

Extremism News Roundup

July 2, 2025

Eye on Extremism: July 2, 2025

Word from U.S. President Donald Trump that Israel has agreed to the conditions needed to finalise a 60-day ceasefire in Gaza raised hopes on Wednesday in the enclave, where health officials said at least 20 people had been killed in Israeli attacks...

Extremism News Roundup

July 1, 2025

Eye on Extremism: July 1, 2025

Israel's Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer, a confidant of Netanyahu, is in Washington this week to meet with officials at the White House, Trump's spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt told reporters at a press briefing on Monday. Dermer would be...

Extremism News Roundup

June 30, 2025

Eye on Extremism: June 30, 2025

Short of commanders, deprived of much of its tunnel network and unsure of support from its ally Iran, Hamas is battling to survive in Gaza in the face of rebellious local clans and relentless Israeli military pressure. Hamas fighters are operating...

Extremism News Roundup

June 27, 2025

Eye on Extremism: June 27, 2025

The Trump administration has discussed possibly helping Iran access as much as $30 billion to build a civilian-energy-producing nuclear program, easing sanctions, and freeing up billions of dollars in restricted Iranian funds – all part of an...