Violence and Security

Islamists See Brexit as Opportunity for Jihad

July 06, 2016

Intelligence analysts have identified a spike in Islamic State social media traffic calling for terror attacks against soft, civilian targets across Europe as a means of weakening EU socio-political cohesion and undermining financial stability following the UK's exit from the bloc.
Istanbul Attack Signals Islamist Pivot to Caucasus, Central Asia

July 06, 2016

Preliminary intelligence suggests militant Islamists from the Caucasus and Central Asia planned and executed the Islamist terror attack on the Istanbul airport, raising concerns that the Chechen-based Caucasus Emirate may serve as the epicenter of a new pivot zone for radical Islamist networks.
Islamists Victimize Bangladesh Religious Minorities

July 06, 2016

In the latest of a series of high-profile, lethal assaults by violent Islamist groups targeting Bangladesh's religious minorities, Islamist militants are suspected in a fatal attack on a Hindu temple worker in the country.
Taliban Message NATO with Afghanistan Suicide Attack

July 01, 2016

Security experts have widely interpreted the Taliban's lethal suicide attack in Kabul against a bus carrying newly graduated Afghan police cadets as a warning from the Islamists that they will continue their war on the country's NATO-supported government in order to make Afghanistan a sharia state.
Istanbul Attack Reflects Islamist Globalization

July 01, 2016

The three radical Islamist suspects in the terrorist attacks at the Istanbul airport identified by the Turkish government - a Chechen, an Uzbek, and a Kyrgyz - reflect the globalization of jihadi sharia networks supporting the creation of a worldwide caliphate.
UK Police Arrest Man for "Rightwing" Posts

July 01, 2016

British authorities have announced that they have arrested a man on suspicion of inciting racial hatred for posting "extreme rightwing, Islamophobic and antisemitic" material on social media.
NY Senate Passes Campus Hate Speech Bill

June 29, 2016

The New York State Senate has passed a bill that would provide for the removal of funding from any student group at a public university that promotes or encourages "discrimination, intolerance, hate speech or boycotts" on the basis of "race, class, gender, nationality, ethnic origin or religion."
UNESCO Trains Teachers on "Violent Extremism"

June 29, 2016

In a series of training seminars on Global Citizenship Education, UNESCO and the Asia Pacific Centre of Education for Intercultural Understanding are seeking to "sensitize" teachers regarding how they should respond to "violent extremism" in the classroom.
NGOs Criticize Latest EU Migration Plan

June 29, 2016

Amnesty International and other nongovernmental organizations have called on EU member states to reject the European Commission's proposed policy of working with countries outside the EU to curb migration to Europe, arguing that the policy undermines migrants' human right to asylum.
IS Repeats Tactics in Abducting Kurdish Civilians

June 28, 2016

In a move resembling the civilian abductions and enslavement of Christians and Yazidis by Islamic State forces in Iraqi territory, IS fighters have systematically abducted almost a thousand Kurdish civilians in the battle with the predominantly Kurdish Syria Democratic Forces for control of the Syrian province of Aleppo.