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Extremism News Roundup
Eye on Extremism: August 19, 2025
Islamic State-backed rebels armed with machetes and hoes have killed at least 52 civilians in the Beni and Lubero areas of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo in recent days, UN and local officials said. The Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) rebels...
Extremism News Roundup
Eye on Extremism: August 18, 2025
The life-threatening knife attack on a caregiver in a Paderborn youth psychiatric clinic happened during the brief absence of a guard. The attack by the 13-year-old teenager was carried out as a guard was leaving the kitchen, the Paderborn public...
Extremism News Roundup
Eye on Extremism: August 15, 2025
Hezbollah raised the spectre of civil war on Friday with a warning there would be "no life" in Lebanon if the government sought to confront or eliminate the Iran-backed group. The government wants to control arms in line with a U.S.-backed plan...
Extremism News Roundup
Eye on Extremism: August 14, 2025
The Yemeni National Resistance, the main military faction fighting against the Houthis, seized 750 tons of weapons smuggled to the terror group by Iran, including chemical weapons, Sky News Arabia reported on Monday. The operation revealed that both...
Extremism News Roundup
Eye on Extremism: August 13, 2025
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is set to name Hamas on the UN's blacklist in his annual report on conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV), an advanced draft copy of the report, as it was distributed to members of the Security Council and seen...
Extremism News Roundup
Eye on Extremism: August 12, 2025
Al-Qaeda’s notorious offshoot in Syria, Hurras al-Din, announced its formal dissolution in January after the fall of the Bashar al-Assad regime. But nearly two years after US airstrikes killed al-Qaeda’s veteran top leader, Ayman al-Zawahiri, in...
Extremism News Roundup
Eye on Extremism: August 11, 2025
While there have been vague proclamations by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s military has yet to complete the tactical battle plan. There has been no public confirmation of how long any occupation of the city will last — or when it will...
Extremism News Roundup
Eye on Extremism: August 8, 2025
After years spent quietly gaining strength, Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM) is now the most well-armed militant force in West Africa and among the most powerful in the world, according to regional and Western officials, with as many as 6...
Extremism News Roundup
Eye on Extremism: August 7, 2025
It remains unclear how Hamas has managed to continue funding salary payments given the destruction of much of its administrative and financial infrastructure. One senior Hamas employee, who served in high positions and is familiar with Hamas's...
Extremism News Roundup
Eye on Extremism: August 6, 2025
The Israeli military claims that United Nations agencies operating in Gaza have enabled Hamas to hijack humanitarian aid and distort global perception, alleging that the aid system has become both operationally dysfunctional and politically...
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