List of Terrorism articles
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CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA - AUGUST 16: A woman leaves a message in chalk on the street where Heather Heyer was killed and 19 others injured when a car slammed into a crowd of people protesting against a white supremacist rally, August 16, 2017 in Charlottesville, Virginia. Charlottesville will held a memorial service for Heyer Wednesday, four days after she was killed when a participant in a white nationalist, neo-Nazi rally allegedly drove his car into the crowd of people demonstrating against the 'alt-right' gathering. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) The Law Should Treat Domestic Terror as the Equivalent of International Terror
There is no federal crime of domestic terrorism with which James Fields can be charged.
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<> on July 2, 2009 in Kandahar, Afghanistan. Trump’s Presidential Afghanistan Speech
Details may be slim, but the president nailed the "why" of America's longest war — and boldly went against his political base.
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GettyImages-835734948crop The Long Shadow of al-Andalus
Spain is on the periphery of Europe, but central to modern jihad.
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A demonstrator holds up a poster from the "We the People" campaign of US artist Shepard Fairey, showing a woman wearing a US flag like a hijab during a protest of US Democrats Abroad in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin on January 21, 2017, one day after the inauguration of the US President. / AFP / dpa / Gregor Fischer / Germany OUT (Photo credit should read GREGOR FISCHER/AFP/Getty Images) Berliners Gather at Brandenburg Gate to Denounce Charlottesville Nazis
Crowds chanted “Nazi scum go away” and collected donations for victims of the violence.
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GettyImages-490741339 Scenes From Central Asia’s Forever War
In Kyrgyzstan’s Fergana Valley, ethnic strife, corruption, and poverty collide in the country’s ongoing fight against extremism.
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Screen Shot 2017-08-02 at 11 Watch Turkmenistan’s Leader Play Commando and Blow Stuff Up
At least Donald Trump isn’t acting like this … yet.
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Kazakh_terror ‘Our Future Will Be Violent Extremism’
Kazakhstan — Central Asia’s most stable state — is waking up to the fact that Islamic extremism has planted its roots and is here to stay.
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U.S. President Donald Trump salutes during the presidential inaugural parade in Washington on Jan. 20, 2017. (Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty Images) Donald Trump Is Pushing America’s Special Forces Past the Breaking Point
America has never had more counterterrorism raids — and less of a counterterrorism strategy.
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GettyImages-692193102crop The Islamic State’s Shock-and-Bore Terrorism
The "caliphate" has figured out how to make committing acts of terror easy. It's also made them boring.
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alnuri From the Rise of the Caliphate to the Fall of Mosul, One Family’s Journey
Residents of this shattered city initially welcomed the Islamic State, but the honeymoon was short. The damage left behind will take generations to heal.
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jordanalaqsa In Jordan, a Killing Threatens to Upend Peace with Israel
As tensions simmer in Jerusalem, a linchpin of Israel’s security relationship with the Arab world is put to the test.
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Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry (R) looks at UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nahyan during a joint press conference with their Saudi and Bahraini counterparts, after their meeting in the Egyptian capital Cairo on July 5, 2017, discussing the Gulf diplomatic crisis with Qatar, as Doha called for dialogue to resolve the dispute. The Saudi foreign ministry said on July 5, 2017 that it had received Qatar's response to a 13-point list of demands issued on June 22 -- which include Doha ending support for the Muslim Brotherhood and closing broadcaster Al-Jazeera -- and would respond "at the right time". / AFP PHOTO / POOL / Khaled ELFIQI (Photo credit should read KHALED ELFIQI/AFP/Getty Images) New UAE Documentary Claims Qatar Complicit in 9/11 Attacks
Dueling PR campaigns just reached a whole new level in the ongoing Gulf crisis.
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TOPSHOT - Iraqi forces deploy in the Bajwaniyah village, about 30 kms south of Mosul, on October 18, 2016 after they liberated it from Islamic State (IS) group jihadists. Tens of thousands of Iraqi forces were making gains on the Islamic State group in Mosul in an offensive US President Barack Obama warned would be a "difficult fight". / AFP / AHMAD AL-RUBAYE (Photo credit should read AHMAD AL-RUBAYE/AFP/Getty Images) Iraqi Forces Carry Out Revenge Killings Against ISIS Suspects
As Iraqi forces gain upper hand, Sunni Muslims become the victims of further sectarian crimes.
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A flag of the autonomous Kurdistan region flies as Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga fighters take position to monitor the area from their front line post in Bashiqa, a town 13 kilometres north-east of Mosul on August 16, 2014. Kurdish troops backed by US warplanes launched a bid to recapture Mosul dam, Iraq's largest, from Islamic State jihadists, a senior Kurdish military official said. AFP PHOTO/AHMAD AL-RUBAYE (Photo credit should read AHMAD AL-RUBAYE/AFP/Getty Images) Iraqi Kurds Want America as Their Divorce Lawyer
Kurdish leaders are trying to persuade the United States to broker a potentially explosive split between Erbil and Baghdad.
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Afghan politician and former finance minister Ashraf Ghani (C) talks as his two vice-presidential candidates, former warlord Abdul Rahid Dostum (L), and former justice minister, Sarwar Danish (R), look on during registration for the forthcoming presidential elections at the Independent Election Commission (IEC) in Kabul on October 6, 2013. Afghanistan's presidential election race sparked a last-minute rush of candidates as nominations closed for next April's poll, with former finance minister Ashraf Ghani among the leading names to register. AFP PHOTO/ Massoud HOSSAINI (Photo credit should read MASSOUD HOSSAINI/AFP/Getty Images) The Afghan Vice President Was Just Denied Entry to Afghanistan
It’s the latest sign of a political crisis roiling the country.