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Extremism News Roundup

October 31, 2025

Eye on Extremism: October 31, 2025

The FBI prevented a potential terrorist attack over Halloween weekend, Director Kash Patel posted on X early Friday. “This morning the FBI thwarted a potential terrorist attack and arrested multiple subjects in Michigan who were allegedly plotting a...

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October 30, 2025

Eye on Extremism: October 30, 2025

Al Qaeda militants are moving closer to seizing the capital of the West African nation of Mali, which, should the city fall, would become the first country in the world run by the U.S.-designated terrorist group. The rapid advance of the jihadists in...

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October 29, 2025

Eye on Extremism: October 29, 2025

Israel’s military said Wednesday that the ceasefire was back on in Gaza after it carried out heavy airstrikes overnight across the Palestinian territory that killed 104 people, including 46 children, according to local health officials. The strikes —...

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October 28, 2025

Eye on Extremism: October 28, 2025

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the country's military to launch "powerful" airstrikes on Gaza on Tuesday, imperiling the fragile U.S.-brokered ceasefire. "Following security consultations, Prime Minister Netanyahu instructed the...

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October 27, 2025

Eye on Extremism: October 27, 2025

A transnational terror network run by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps Quds Force is behind a string of recent attacks on Jewish sites in Western countries, the Mossad intelligence agency said on Sunday. According to Israel’s spy agency, senior...

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October 24, 2025

Eye on Extremism: October 24, 2025

A first-of-its-kind operation targeting terrorism financing and the illegal activity supporting it, has led to 83 arrests across six African countries and the identification of 160 persons of interest. Operation Catalyst (July – September 2025) aimed...

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October 23, 2025

Eye on Extremism: October 23, 2025

The U.S. and Israel are considering a plan that would divide Gaza into separate zones controlled by Israel and Hamas, with reconstruction only taking place on the Israeli side as a stopgap until the militant group can be disarmed and removed from...

Extremism News Roundup

October 22, 2025

Eye on Extremism: October 22, 2025

After years spent accumulating arms and influence in rural parts of this West African nation, al-Qaeda-aligned militants have shown their power now extends to the heart of the state — imposing a fuel blockade that has paralyzed the Malian capital and...

Extremism News Roundup

October 21, 2025

Eye on Extremism: October 21, 2025

The fragile cease-fire in Gaza that came into force last week rests on some key assumptions: that Hamas militants give up their weapons and that an international troop presence keep the peace as Israel withdraws its military from the enclave. But the...

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October 20, 2025

Eye on Extremism: October 20, 2025

The IDF announced the resumption of the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip on Sunday evening after a deadly attack on troops in the southern Gaza Strip in the morning, and a subsequent wave of retaliatory Israeli strikes had threatened to shatter the...