Violence and Security

AQ Media Lauds Texas Synagogue Attacker

January 23, 2022

A major Al-Qaeda (AQ) media platform has lauded the British perpetrator of the recent attack on a Texas synagogue as a martyr for his demands that AQ sympathizer Aafia Siddiqui be released from a US jail, with AQ media outlets’ anti-Semitic discourse picked up in the echo chamber of other extremists groups that advocate anti-Semitic violence.
Jihadists Continue Destabilization in African Horn With Latest Al-Shabaab Attack

January 17, 2022

Jihadism continued to destabilize the geopolitically critical African Horn region with a multi-casualty car bomb explosion by Islamist extremist group al-Shabaab in Somalia’s capital city, with the attack signaling the jihadi group’s response to the government’s recent announcement about scheduling national elections.
Islamist Radical Connection Revealed in Kazakhstan Unrest

January 10, 2022

Security authorities in Kazakhstan have identified Islamist radical links to the violent public protests that have destabilized the country since last week, with state officials revealing that combatants in Islamist extremist groups were among those who attacked government buildings in the escalating violence in the energy-rich Central Asian republic.
German Intel Exposes Link Between Hamburg Islamic Organization & Iranian Revolutionary Guard

January 08, 2022

German intelligence authorities discovered Iranian penetration through affiliation with the Hamburg Shura Council, an association of Islamic organizations in the northern port city, uncovering connections between the Shura Council group member’s Iran Hamburg Center and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
IS Proves Durable Threat With Latest Round of Attacks Along Syrian-Iraqi Border

January 05, 2022

The Islamic State’s (IS) is proving to be a clear and present danger in the Eastern Syrian border regions with Iraq, evidenced in a series of lethal attacks against Syrian military forces in areas controlled by the al-Assad regime and against oil refinery workers in areas of Syria under US-allied, Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces.
Captured IS Fighter Details English-Language Jihadi Strategy of Radicalization & Recruitment

January 03, 2022

A Canadian citizen known as the English-language voice of IS is seeking repatriation after pleading guilty to terrorism charges in US federal court, after detailing the sophisticated media and propaganda strategy that he led for IS as part of their radicalization and recruitment of English-language foreign fighters for the jihadi group’s operations in caliphate territories and beyond.
Islamist Regimes Use Drone Sales to Expand Influence at Expense of US in Horn of Africa

January 03, 2022

The Islamist regimes of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Iran, and Qatar, are making significant inroads into the strategically important countries of the Horn of Africa, capitalizing on the volatility in the region’s security conditions to use drone sales for influence-building and for displacing the United States as a major geopolitical player on the African Continent.
Islamist Militants Continue Jihad in Africa with Lethal Suicide Attack in DRC

December 27, 2021

Militants from the IS-affiliated Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) perpetrated a multi-causality suicide bombing attack at a bar crowded with civilians celebrating Christmas in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), continuing the jihadist operations that are destabilizing the broad regional space of Eastern and Central Africa.
Israeli Think Tank Warns of Security Threats from Iran’s Drone Tech

December 27, 2021

Iran’s Islamic revolutionary regime has effectively used its advances in drone technology and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) to expand the regime’s Mideast influence, exporting UAV weapons to Islamist proxies such as Hezbollah, Hamas, and Islamic Jihad in a strategy of “emissary terrorism” that poses a disruptive threat to regional security, according to a new report by Israeli think tank ALMA.
Decades of CVE Strategy Failed to Extinguish 21st-Century Jihadists

December 27, 2021

Washington Institute writes that despite a 20-year trajectory of countering violent extremism (CVE) strategies by Western nations, the security and ideological threats posed by Islamism have remained durable, based on the combined globalization and localization of proliferation of global and local forms of Islamist militancy.