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Eye on Extremism: September 9, 2026
Iran spent decades building up armed groups on Israel’s frontiers that suffered major losses in the wars following Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack out of Gaza. Israel battered the Palestinian militants as well as Lebanon’s Hezbollah, which had been Iran...
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Eye on Extremism: September 8, 2026
A quarter of a century after the Al-Qaeda attacks on the United States, jihadist groups still pose a major threat to security in Europe, but a new menace has surfaced that is driven mostly by young people online and the authorities are worried...
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Eye on Extremism: September 4, 2026
In a recent social-media video, the top far-right leader in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt rode a powder-blue moped down a sunny country lane. It was the sort of optimistic, genial clip that has helped that leader, Ulrich Siegmund, appeal to...
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Eye on Extremism: September 3, 2026
Iran has warned the United States that it would respond forcefully to an Israeli offensive on a mountainous ridge in southern Lebanon where Iranian military personnel are holed up alongside Hezbollah fighters, three officials briefed on the message...
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Eye on Extremism: September 2, 2026
Iran targeted Gulf allies of the United States on Wednesday, firing drones at Kuwait and Bahrain after a night of U.S. aerial bombardment of Iran. Iranian officials said one of the U.S. strikes on the country overnight struck a wedding party, leaving...
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Eye on Extremism: September 1, 2026
The airstrike was an opening shot in the American effort to disrupt the unlikely alliance between two implacable U.S. foes: al-Shabaab militants who have been fighting in Somalia for two decades, and the Houthi rebels, longtime beneficiaries of...
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Eye on Extremism: August 31, 2026
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said on Monday that it launched an attack on the King Hussein and Al Azraq U.S. bases in Jordan with ballistic missiles in response to the U.S. attack on Larak Island, Iranian media reported. Reuters: Iran’s IRGC...
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Eye on Extremism: August 28, 2026
Brad Cooper, commander of U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM), announced that no oil has been exported from Iranian shores since the resumption of the U.S. naval blockade against the Islamic Republic. He further stated that no vessels have entered or...
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Eye on Extremism: August 27, 2026
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the accused mastermind of the Sept. 11 terror attacks, and three alleged co-conspirators will stand trial in 2028, a military judge ruled Wednesday. Lt. Col. Michael Schrama set the trial for June 5, 2028, rejecting...
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Eye on Extremism: August 26, 2026
Germany’s military mission to Iraq formally ended on Wednesday, in the first major departure from the Kurdistan Region as part of the US-led, anti-ISIS coalition’s broader withdrawal from the country by September 30, Iraqi authorities announced. The...
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