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Extremism News Roundup

April 7, 2025

Eye on Extremism: April 7, 2025

Plans for a new national police body to lead the fight against terrorism and serious organised crime are being drawn up, as UK police chiefs consider the biggest overhaul of policing since the 1960s. Under the proposals, counter-terrorism policing...

Extremism News Roundup

April 4, 2025

Eye on Extremism: April 4, 2025

In a rare and perilous public show of anger against Hamas, hundreds of Palestinians marched through Beit Lahia in northern Gaza this week, demanding that the militant group relinquish control of the territory and end the war with Israel, according to...

Extremism News Roundup

April 3, 2025

Eye on Extremism: April 3, 2025

Hamas decided not to respond or engage with Israel's counter-proposal for a ceasefire in Gaza, an official told Reuters on Wednesday, affirming it is committed to the mediators' plan instead.Israel said on March 29 it conveyed to the mediators a...

Extremism News Roundup

April 2, 2025

Eye on Extremism: April 2, 2025

New research shows that Hamas has quietly dropped thousands of deaths from its Gaza war casualty figures. Salo Aizenberg, from the US-based non-profit organisation Honest Reporting, said that Hamas’s March 2025 casualty update had removed thousands...

Extremism News Roundup

April 1, 2025

Eye on Extremism: April 1, 2025

The Civil Guard arrested three people on Tuesday in an international anti-terrorism operation carried out in Barcelona, ​​which also resulted in arrests in the United Kingdom and France. Officers raided the home on Valencia Street in the Sagrada...

Extremism News Roundup

March 31, 2025

Eye on Extremism: March 31, 2025

The Hamas militant group said Saturday it has accepted a new Gaza ceasefire proposal from mediators Egypt and Qatar, but Israel said it has made a counter-proposal in “full coordination” with the third mediator, the United States. Egypt early in the...

Extremism News Roundup

March 28, 2025

Eye on Extremism: March 28, 2025

A knife-wielding assailant seriously wounded five people in a stabbing attack on a busy shopping street in Amsterdam before he was taken into custody, police in the city have said. The man who carried out the attack in the Dutch capital was injured...

Extremism News Roundup

March 27, 2025

Eye on Extremism: March 27, 2025

Palestinians in Gaza protested against the war for a second straight day on Wednesday and chanted slogans against Hamas, frustrated and angry over the collapse of a cease-fire with Israel that many had hoped would become permanent. The protests were...

Extremism News Roundup

March 26, 2025

Eye on Extremism: March 26, 2025

US-backed forces declared in 2019 that the Islamic State (IS) group had been destroyed. But as the past few years have shown, that only marked the end of its quasi-state that controlled territory in Iraq and Syria -- not the threat it continues to...

Extremism News Roundup

March 25, 2025

Eye on Extremism: March 25, 2025

The United States has lifted multimillion-dollar bounties on three senior Taliban officials, according to Afghan authorities and a senior American official. The move is a significant shift by the Trump administration toward militants who were behind...

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Extremists: Their Words. Their Actions.

Fact:

On April 3, 2017, the day Vladimir Putin was due to visit the city, a suicide bombing was carried out in the St. Petersburg metro, killing 15 people and injuring 64. An al-Qaeda affiliate, Imam Shamil Battalion, claimed responsibility. 

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