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"In December 2015, Buhari was confident enough to declare Boko Haram "technically" defeated. But the truth of that statement has since been repeatedly questioned. Suicide bombings and hit-and-run raids persisted, while troops were unable to stop another mass abduction of more than...

"Mr Ashcroft was a young National Front (NF) member in the 1990s but left after an influential secret agent diverted him from the group. He warned that far-right and neo-Nazi organisations had become a resurgent force in the digital age, illustrated in November 2018 by the convictions of six...

CEP Senior Advisor and President of the Terrorism Analysis Center Jean-Charles Brisard ​discusses the wave of European terrorist attacks that began with the Charlie Hebdo murders four years ago, how the nature of attacks has changed, and the need for improved European-wide measures to combat...

"A former prison governor who led an official review into Islamist extremism in prisons has said jails in the UK have become “incubators” of radical behaviour, and repeated calls for the most subversive offenders to be separated from other inmates. Ian Acheson, who led the...

An article in the Portuguese weekly Sol discusses the rise of far-right political parties and describes recent attacks on the leader and offices of the far-right German party Alternative for Germany (AfD). "The director of the non-governmental organization CEP (Project Against Extremism),...

“Since 9/11, the federal government prosecuted about 400 jihadists. At least 61 individuals with terrorism-related convictions will be released from prison between 2018 and 2024, according to a December report, 'When Terrorists Come Home: The Need for Rehabilitating and Reintegrating...

“Airbrushing and Photoshop long ago opened photos to easy manipulation. Now, videos are becoming just as vulnerable to fakes that look deceptively real. Supercharged by powerful and widely available artificial-intelligence software developed by Google, these lifelike 'deepfake' videos...

After two Scandinavian women were killed while hiking in Morocco, an expert on Islamist movements has said it's hard to protect tourist-heavy regions from ISIS. The four men suspected of killing Louisa Jespersen, 24, of Denmark, and Maren Ueland, 28, of Norway, in Morocco's High Atlas...

Terrorism-related offenders, who by the very nature of their criminality were at violent odds with American society, face the complex process of reintegrating against the strong headwinds of extraordinarily high recidivism rates. While garden-variety federal prisoners have a 44.7% re-arrest rate...

90-year-old U.S. Army veteran says the U.S. government has been confusing him with a Chechen ISIS member known as "Akhmed the One-armed," for the past three years, creating frustrating travel delays and resulting in lost mail. Wondering why he would be considered "a denied party,...