Eye on Extremism: September 10, 2026
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IranWire: Yemeni Resistance Claims Captured Laptop Exposes IRGC Plan to Control Bab-el-Mandeb
Hours after the Islamic Republic’s Foreign Ministry spokesman denied Houthi dependency on Tehran, the “Yemeni National Resistance” claimed to have uncovered documents detailing the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ (IRGC) military strategy for the Houthi movement.
Jewish authors, agents, scouts, editors and other book professionals describe an ecosystem from big publishers to #BookTok that is suppressing Jewish and Israeli voices. Agents and scouts say it’s become impossible to sell foreign rights to works by Israeli writers. Established authors say their recent projects have been inexplicably turned down. Published writers with overtly Jewish books say their agents have dropped them from their roster; writers are being asked by editors to purge Jewish or Israeli elements from their books.
Analysis
The US faces growing challenges in countering international terrorism as resources are diverted to other threats, experienced security officials leave and “complacency” spreads, experts have warned.
JNS: Will Mahmoud Abbas postpone elections to the Palestinian Legislative Council?
P.A. leader Mahmoud Abbas appears concerned that elections could strengthen Hamas and Mohammed Dahlan and create a new balance of power in the Palestinian arena.
United States
Washington Post: After 9/11, the U.S. built an anti-terror apparatus. Trump is using it at home.
Twenty-five years after the 9/11 attacks, powerful agencies and vast legal authorities created to stop another terrorist catastrophe are being turned inward, with the Trump administration using many of those powers to round up immigrants, battle drug traffickers and target political dissent.
Twenty-five years later, Americans view the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, as a defining event — one that fundamentally changed the country and that needs to be remembered.
CBS News: FBI, terrorism officials recall how 9/11 shaped their careers
Twenty-five years the 9/11 attacks, ask almost anyone, and they can tell you where they were when everything changed. “I was going to college in Northern New Jersey at the time… I was actually able to see the towers from the top of the football stadium,” said Assistant Special Agent in Charge Marcus Perry, who is with the FBI counterterrorism and crisis response branch.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has deported more than 2,000 known or suspected terrorists from the U.S. since President Donald Trump took office in January 2025, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) tells Fox News Digital, as the nation prepares to mark 25 years since the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
A suspected drug-smuggling vessel was wiped out in a lethal U.S. military strike Wednesday in the Eastern Pacific, killing three alleged "narco-terrorists" aboard, according to the Department of War.
President Donald Trump on Wednesday accused Iran of trying to influence the midterm elections as the country’s leaders signaled increasing aggression and the latest violence pushed oil prices above $100 a barrel.
Major Jewish groups in New York City announced on Thursday a rally against antisemitism, to be held during the UN General Assembly in the city this month. The rally aims to “call on world leaders to act decisively to stop the growing tide of antisemitism.”
Times of Israel: Mamdani, NYPD vow tight security for synagogues during High Holidays
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch on Wednesday announced increased security for Jewish sites during the High Holidays, as the city continues to grapple with a high rate of antisemitic hate crimes.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg announced a hate crime indictment against 51-year-old Raul Morales on Tuesday, following an investigation into a pair of unprovoked daytime stabbings on the Upper West Side.
Ventura County Star: Swastikas, hate messages left at Ventura synagogue, church, park
Swastikas and antisemitic messages were spray-painted on Temple Beth Torah, neighboring Higher Vision church and nearby Juanamaria Park in east Ventura in recent days, authorities said.
The U.S. Department of Education plans to probe alleged Jew-hatred at the Etiwanda School District in Southern California in March 2025, it told the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law, Anti-Defamation League and StandWithUs, which filed the complaint, the groups said on Thursday.
JNS: Colorado school district settles with ADL, agrees to policy reforms to address Jew-hatred
The Anti-Defamation League said on Wednesday that it reached a settlement with the Boulder Valley School District, which educates about 28,000 students at 56 schools, in a federal civil rights complaint that it filed in June. After students bullied and harassed a Jewish student repeatedly, the school and district failed to respond appropriately, according to the complaint, which the ADL filed with the U.S. Department of Education and the Denver civil rights office.
Jerusalem Post: EndJewHatred hosts rally outside the DSA offices in NYC ahead of 9/11 anniversary
Demonstrators and community activists gathered outside the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) headquarters in downtown Manhattan for a rally organized by the EndJewHatred movement and the Lawfare Project on Tuesday.
Dallas Morning News: Texas Muslims are navigating a new surge in Islamophobia, 25 years after 9/11
Muhammad Abdullah watched Sept. 11 unfold from a high school classroom in Atlanta. A teacher wheeled in a television set, and the class of sophomores sat stunned, trying to make sense of what was happening. Taunts soon followed. Students joked that he and other Muslims were dropping bombs. In the hallway, a group of boys ripped off a girl’s hijab. Abdullah found his religion being dissected under a national microscope.
WBAL: FBI says Howard County man tried to join ISIS, targeted Jewish sites in Columbia
The FBI has detailed the arrest and conviction of Michael “Teekaye” Junior, a Howard County man who was apprehended in 2024 at Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport while attempting to board a flight out of the United States.
Canada
CBC: Ontario man found guilty of participating in terrorist group activities
An Ontario man was found guilty of participating in the activities of a terrorist group by an Ontario Superior Court judge Wednesday. Kristoffer Nippak, 33, was arrested and charged in December 2023 with knowingly participating in or contributing to an activity of a terrorist group following an 18-month investigation by the RCMP in central Quebec, eastern and northern Ontario and the Niagara Region. He was arrested alongside another co-accused, Matthew Althorpe, of Niagara Region.
JNS: Toronto mayor skips mayoral debate on Jew-hatred
Part of Olivia Chow’s job as mayor of Toronto is to be the mayor for everyone, Brad Bradford, who is running against the incumbent, said at a mayoral forum on Jew-hatred at Adath Israel Congregation in North York on Tuesday, where Chow was a no-show.
Germany
Bloomberg: Nagel Warns Rise of AfD May Deter Investors From Germany
Bundesbank President Joachim Nagel said he’s worried the recent victory of the far-right Alternative for Germany in a state election might deter foreign investment into Europe’s biggest economy. “I’m concerned,” he told reporters in Berlin on Thursday. “What does this make with our country, with our society, the values we are sharing? And some of these concepts are self-defeating in an economic sense.”
New York Times: With Messaging That Mirrors Putin’s, Germany’s Far-Right Party Gains Ground
As relations between Moscow and Berlin reached their lowest point since the Cold War, President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia stood before reporters last week and ripped into his German counterpart, Chancellor Friedrich Merz.
BBC: How the AfD is rewriting German history
For the first time since World War Two, a far-right party has made a significant win in Germany – taking almost 44% of the vote in Saxony-Anhalt. The Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, which has been labelled as “right-wing extremist” by domestic intelligence, is leading the national polls.
Deutsche Welle: Germany's connection to the September 11 attacks
“This day has changed the world,” German President Johannes Rau said. He had watched in shock as the burning Twin Towers of the World Trade Center collapsed in New York. Nearly 3,000 people were killed on September 11, 2001, when Islamist terrorists hijacked four passenger planes and turned them into deadly weapons.
Sweden
The Guardian: ‘They poison the population’: Swedish Muslims challenge far right ahead of election
For years, Sweden’s far right has peddled its own, distorted view of Islam, portraying it as being at odds with Swedish values. The Ask-a-Muslim – or Fråga en Muslim – campaign, conceived by Virk in 2017, was his way of fighting back.
Switzerland
The Swiss federal intelligence service on Thursday published a 200-page dossier on the notorious Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele, the German doctor known as the “Angel of Death” for conducting horrific medical experiments on prisoners at Auschwitz.
United Kingdom
Fox News: 2 arrested in UK on suspicion of assisting Iranian intelligence service
The United Kingdom’s Metropolitan Police said it arrested two people on Thursday over suspicions of “assisting a foreign intelligence service” that is “linked to Iran.” “Both suspects were taken to a London police station, and were subsequently released on bail with strict conditions until a date in late October,” police said, noting that the two were arrested “as part of an investigation into suspected National Security Act offenses.” They were identified as a 42-year-old woman and a 60-year-old man.
Afghanistan
New York Times: 25 Years After 9/11, Al Qaeda Still Has a Home in Afghanistan
Twenty five years ago, Osama bin Laden led the planning of Al Qaeda’s attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, from a Taliban stronghold in Afghanistan, where he lived as their guest. Now, the Taliban rule over Afghanistan once again, trying to present a more modern face to the world.
Afghanistan International: Four Taliban Killed In Kapisa & Kandahar, Says Anti-Taliban Groups
The Afghanistan Freedom Front says it killed three Taliban members and wounded two others in an attack on a checkpoint in Kapisa’s Tagab district. The Afghanistan United Front also reported killing a Taliban police member in Kandahar.
8AM Media: Freedom Front Claims Attack on Taliban in Kunar
The Freedom Front has claimed that its forces attacked a gathering of Taliban fighters in Chawkay district of Kunar province, killing one member of the group. The front said in a statement posted on X on Wednesday evening, September 9, that the attack targeted Taliban fighters at the entrance gate of a former Afghan National Army battalion.
8AM Media: United Front Claims Attack on Taliban in Kandahar City
The Afghanistan United Front has claimed responsibility for an attack that killed a Taliban fighter in Kandahar city. The front said on Wednesday night, September 9, on X that it had killed a member of the “Taliban police” in Kandahar.
Gaza Strip/West Bank
Jerusalem Post: Hamas terrorist behind 2003 murder of Shalom Har-Melech killed in IDF strike in Gaza
Farah Hamed, a senior Hamas member and terrorist who carried out a 2003 attack that resulted in the murder of Shalom Har-Melech, the late husband of MK Limor Son Har-Melech, was killed in an IDF strike in the Gaza Strip, Hamas announced on Wednesday.
Palestinians are increasingly questioning the effectiveness of “armed resistance” in achieving their national ambitions, with only 13.3% now viewing violence as the most useful way to achieve those goals, according to a new poll conducted by the Jerusalem Media and Communications Center (JMCC) – founded in 1988 by Palestinian journalists and researchers – in cooperation with the Friedrich Ebert Foundation.
Iran
Iran International: Tehran IRGC commander says forces ready for rapid offensive operations
The commander of the IRGC’s Tehran division said on Thursday that Iran was prepared to conduct “lightning-fast offensive operations” anywhere in the country. “Today, we are ready to deploy rapidly to any part of the country and destroy the enemy under any circumstances,” Hassan Hassanzadeh said, adding that repeated exercises had strengthened the forces’ rapid-transport and special-operations capabilities.
IranWire: IRGC Sets Six Conditions for Ceasefire and Expands Maritime Blockade
Hossein Mohebbi, spokesperson for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), outlined six conditions set by the Islamic Republic for ending the war, stating that Tehran has expanded its designated confrontation zone for maritime vessels from the Strait of Hormuz into parts of the Sea of Oman and the Arabian Sea.
Iraq
Shafaq: Troops sweep Kirkuk ISIS hideouts after Iraqi strikes
Iraqi security forces launched a search operation in Al-Shay Valley (Wadi al-Shay), south of Kirkuk, for ISIS militants believed to have been killed or wounded in recent Iraqi F-16 strikes on their positions in the rugged valley, a security source told Shafaq News on Thursday.
Rudaw: Iraqi airstrikes target terrorist remnants in Salahaddin
Iraqi airstrikes targeted alleged Islamic State (ISIS) remnants in Salahaddin province on Wednesday, the Security Media Cell (SMC) said, amid a surge in strikes following early July clashes that killed an Iraqi military officer.
Lebanon
Naharnet: Aoun: Time has come for state to return to south
President Joseph Aoun stated Thursday that the Lebanese state has "received the appeals of our people in Nabatieh, Tyre and Arab Salim.” “I wish to tell them: We have heeded your calls and stand by your side; we certainly cannot remain distant from you. We must exert every effort to support and assist you, and to secure the essentials for your resilience to the greatest extent possible,” Aoun said during a cabinet session.
Naharnet: Netanyahu reportedly warns Aoun to disarm Hezbollah or face escalation
U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon Michel Issa has told President Joseph Aoun that Israel would escalate its attacks on Lebanon if Hezbollah doesn't disarm - and would accept nothing less, Nidaa al-Watan newspaper reported Thursday.
Naharnet: Hezbollah MP hits back at US Embassy
MP Ali Ammar of Hezbollah on Thursday responded to a statement released by the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, lamenting that “day by day, the United States’ blatant interference in Lebanese affairs is intensifying and Lebanon’s sovereignty is crudely violated -- whether through statements from the U.S. Embassy in Beirut or provocative remarks by its ambassador.”
Naharnet: US Embassy says south Lebanon ‘does not belong’ to Hezbollah
The U.S. Embassy in Beirut said Thursday that the Lebanese do not want Hezbollah to be armed and that south Lebanon does not belong to the Iran-backed group. In a post on the X platform, the embassy “the United States applauds these communities and supports the government of Lebanon in its stated goal to assert sovereignty, enforced by the LAF, and ensure that the decisions of war and peace lie exclusively with the Lebanese state.”
Naharnet: Fadlallah: We will not allow this occupation to remain on our land
MP Hassan Fadlallah of Hezbollah on Thursday emphasized that "the Resistance is committed to confronting the presence of the occupation using all available and feasible means and capabilities.”
Hezbollah’s use of cluster munitions in attacks on northern Israel on March 4 and March 15, 2026, may have constituted a war crime, Human Rights Watch said on Wednesday, in a rare condemnation of the terror group.
Yemen
Iran International: Houthis say Red Sea navigation remains safe amid military advance
Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthis said freedom of navigation and international trade in the Red Sea and Bab el-Mandeb remain safe and uninterrupted, as the group’s military advance raises fears of further disruption to a critical global shipping route.
The Iran-backed Houthi rebel group on Thursday took over Yemen’s port city of Mokha, an area vital to controlling shipping through the Red Sea, Houthi and Yemeni officials said.
Yemen is moving closer to a return to civil war as Iran -backed rebels threaten a crucial shipping alternative to the Strait of Hormuz. Here’s a look at the intensifying conflict along the Red Sea that could tear the Arab world’s poorest country apart once more, and potentially send oil prices even higher above the $100 per barrel mark.
National Resistance Front forces, a coalition of anti-Houthi forces led by former Houthi ally and senior member of the Yemeni government, Tareq Saleh, have obtained intelligence and maps revealing an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) plan for a phased advance and takeover of the Bab al-Mandab Strait, Iran International reported, citing a Wednesday Yemeni military media announcement.
Mali
In a new speech, a senior JNIM commander operating under the nom de guerre Uwais Al Ansari has described the April 25 offensive in Mali as a decisive turning point in the Sahel conflict, declaring that the era of simple hit-and-run raids is giving way to more intense, systematic operations with civilians in Burkina Faso now squarely in the group's crosshairs.
Modern Ghana: AI deepfakes and fake fighters reshape Mali’s information war
The study, Algorithms at War, by the Dakar-based Timbuktu Institute examines how generative AI is being used across Mali’s conflict – including by JNIM jihadists linked to al-Qaeda, their allies in the FLA, the Front de libération de l’Azawad, a Tuareg independence movement, Mali's transitional authorities and Russia's Africa Corps.
Nigeria
Reuters: Nigeria names new commander to lead military operations against Boko Haram
Nigeria has appointed a new commander to lead military operations against Boko Haram and its Islamic State-backed splinter faction in the northeast, replacing the head of the operation less than two years after his appointment, an army spokesperson said on Wednesday.
Australia
The Australian: Labor’s $75m anti-extremism program failing to reform vast majority
Leaked Home Affairs figures show 24 extremists became more dangerous under the National Support and Intervention Program.
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