Violence and Security

IS Hacker Groups Circulate "Kill Lists" of US Citizens

June 14, 2016

A cluster of pro-Islamic State online hacker groups under the banner "United Cyber Caliphate" is circulating a kill list of citizens of the US and other Western alliance countries, pointing to extremist Islamist groups' growing use of cyber tactics to wage global jihad.
IS Message of Hate and Violence Fuels Deadly Attack in Orlando

June 14, 2016

The gunman who murdered 49 and wounded 53 people at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, pledged allegiance to the Islamic State during his killing spree, a dangerous warning about the pernicious spread of radical Islamism's message of hatred and violence inside the US and IS's globalization of terrorism in the name of Islamist standards of acceptable sexual orientation.
Islamist Radicalization Threatens Religious Minorities in Bangladesh

June 14, 2016

A recent spate of brutal machete killings against Buddhists, Hindus, and Christians in Bangladesh has provoked a government roundup of suspected radical Islamists in an effort to identify the sources of expanding violence against non-radical Muslims, and especially, against the South Asian country's non-Muslim minority communities, by radical Islamist groups supporting the imposition of sharia law.
IS Destroys Ancient Temple in Cultural Cleansing Campaign

June 13, 2016

The Islamic State's reported destruction of the ancient Temple of Nabu in Iraq continues the Islamist group's attempts to cleanse its territory of historically and culturally significant sites linked to Christians and other religious minorities in the region.
East African Islamist Group Raids Somali Hotel

June 09, 2016

The Guardian reports that al-Shabaab, an Islamist group whose mission is to impose sharia law throughout East Africa, has raided a hotel frequented by diplomats and government officials in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, and killed at least 15 people.
UN Roundtable Pushes GCE to Prevent Extremism

June 09, 2016

The UN recently hosted a roundtable at which officials called for the introduction at the national level of the organization's "global citizenship education" agenda, which emphasizes a focus on "positive" rather than "negative" values, in order to prevent what the UN calls "violent extremism" around the world.
EU Framework Includes Legal Migration Routes

June 09, 2016

The European Commission has proposed a New Migration Partnership Framework, under which the EU will partner with external countries to improve conditions in order to deter migration and will also seek to provide migrants "alternative legal pathways to Europe" that are closer to their countries of origin.
EU Party Group Debates Permanent Exclusion of Turkey

June 08, 2016

Politico reports that the European People's Party, the largest political party group in the European Parliament, has failed to come to a conclusion on whether to support a policy paper drafted by members of the group that calls for the permanent exclusion of Turkey from membership in the EU.
Istanbul Bomb Attack Targets Police Vehicle

June 08, 2016

The Guardian reports that Turkish authorities are indicating the involvement of a Kurdish extremist group in a car bomb attack against a police bus that killed seven police officers and four civilians this week in Istanbul.
UN Report: IS Expands Plots of International Attacks

June 07, 2016

A report from UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to the UN Security Council indicates that, faced with territorial setbacks in Iraq and Syria, the Islamic State is doubling down on its efforts to execute an attack on international civilian targets.