Terrorism
News, analysis, and opinions on extremist activity around the world, from fringe groups in the US to major organizations abroad.
Pakistan has released the Indian pilot it captured earlier this week in an attempt to defuse the situation.
Christopher Paul Hasson wrote he was “dreaming of a way to kill almost every last person on the earth.”
And they’re scrapping a terrorism subcommittee to do it.
Sisi admitted to close military cooperation with Israel and denied that Egypt was holding any political prisoners.
How two complementary extremisms are defining global politics.
It centers on where to send legal papers. Seriously.
As activists and journalists are kidnapped, entire regions of the country are going silent.
Read this historian’s origin story of “white power” activism in the US.
What people actually mean when they label an attack “terrorism.”
A haunting new novel lays out a nightmarish vision of America’s future.
The Syrian proxy war is heating up.
“The left is wrong on Islam. The right is wrong on Muslims.” — author Ali Rizvi
Terrorists are getting worse at the one thing they seek to do: terrify people.
Five friends from Argentina and a Belgian tourist were among those killed in Manhattan’s terror attack.
The president called it a “Chuck Schumer beauty.”
America’s allies are shooting at each other. It could get much worse.
Officials say it’s the deadliest single attack ever to hit the country.
Since Trump took office, more Americans have been killed by white American men with no connection to Islam than by Muslim terrorists or foreigners.
The fight against ISIS is shifting from the battlefield to the shadows.
Anti-Muslim policies are built on a fear that is incongruent with the threat.
Trump unveiled his new Afghanistan strategy last night. It’s just like the old one.
A Palestinian civil war is making independence seem further away than ever before.
The president’s belated response to Charlottesville might have been valuable ... if his administration hadn’t already undermined it with actions.
Mosul, after the fall.
Terrorism by Muslims makes up one-third of one percent of all murders in the US.
Syria’s civil war has ravaged millions of children. Here are the faces of six of them.
Rather than extending a hand in understanding, the president essentially cast blame back on Iran itself.
Alienating the people whose help we need is a bad strategy.
This incident is still unfolding. We will continue to update this post as we get more information.
You can’t catch everyone who decides to turn their car into a killing machine.
The attack happened early on Friday, when a truck drove into people on a busy street.
Why sensationalized terrorism coverage makes us overreact to risk.
Our best guess for where Trump is coming from: a right-wing panic about Muslim immigrant rapists.
Republican Rep. Sean Duffy said recent white terrorist attacks were one-offs. But compared with other kinds of terrorism, they’re not that rare.
Trump’s war against the media continues with new false claims.
Washington’s muddled hostage policy has left an American family in the hands of the Taliban.
Two possible deals to bring the family home fell apart because of bureaucratic infighting.
The Bowling Green Massacre, explained.
Most of the terrorists who’ve carried out attacks in the US were Americans.