Violence and Security

UN Launches Program to Detect Returning Foreign Fighters

May 29, 2019

Highlighting the major issue of foreign terrorist fighters fleeing the former territory of the Islamic State, the UN Office of Counter-Terrorism has launched a Countering Terrorist Travel Programme through which countries can use an innovative software system to detect and disrupt terrorist travel.
Opponents of Islamist Terrorism Need Broad Approach

May 29, 2019

The failure of military approaches to defeating global Islamist terrorism points to the determinant significance of socioeconomic and cultural policies that can erode the appeal of Islamist ideology and of the political will to take punitive action against countries that are demonstrated, systematic, global exporters of violent Islamism.
Rights Groups Warn of Islamist Radicalization in Iraqi Prisons

May 29, 2019

International human rights organizations are expressing concerns that Iraq’s overcrowded prisons may become recruitment and propaganda spaces for a new wellspring of radical Islamists opposed to the Baghdad government’s poor management of criminal justice processes.
UNICEF Reports Boko Haram’s Impacts on Children

May 29, 2019

The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) reports that Nigeria’s children remain disproportionately affected by the Boko Haram Islamist extremist group’s war to impose sharia across the West African nation.
Kazakh Repatriations Show Legacy of IS Foreign Fighters

May 29, 2019

The repatriation for psycho-social rehab of 231 citizens of Kazakhstan from Syria, including foreign fighters who went to serve the Islamic State (IS) along with their children born under the caliphate, underscores the globalized legacy of IS, as states face challenges of deradicalization and reintegration related to the caliphate experience.
Easter Attacks in Sri Lanka Point to IS Strategy

May 29, 2019

The high-casualty Easter attacks in Sri Lanka perpetrated by local supporters of the Islamic State (IS) are a warning sign for future patterns of violence by the Islamist jihadi group.
German Government Warns of Rising Islamist Anti-Semitism

May 29, 2019

Germany’s intelligence agency has released a detailed report outlining the evidence of and preventive policy responses across the county to rising anti-Semitism catalyzed by Islamist groups whose ideology advocates attacks on Jews and the destruction of Israel.
Taliban Attacks USAID-Backed NGO

May 29, 2019

The Taliban perpetrated a high-casualty suicide attack against a local Afghan nongovernmental organization supported by the US Agency for International Development (USAID), claiming that the NGO “promotes Western culture” and indicating the jihadist group’s counter commitment to making Afghanistan a sharia state.
Ramadan Bombing in Pakistan Points to Rising Islamist Sectarianism

May 29, 2019

The targeting of a Sufi shrine, the sacred site of a moderate brand of Islam, with a bombing attack at the start of the Ramadan period has raised concerns of renewed sectarian tensions in Pakistan's Islamic Republic.
IS Shows African Footprint Through Photos from DRC Attack

May 29, 2019

The Islamic State's (IS) main media office released photos of weapons captured after an IS attack on Congolese troops in a recent IS attack in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), messaging the jihadist group's expanding African footprint.