Terrorism & Extremism

Members of the Buffalo Police department work at the scene of a shooting at a Tops supermarket in Buffalo, New York, U.S. May 16, 2022. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid

Preventing racial hate crimes means tackling white supremacist ideology

Tuesday, May 17, 2022

A girl walks near a building destroyed during past fighting with Islamic State militants, in the old city of Mosul, Iraq February 1, 2022. REUTERS/Khalid al-Mousily

Not by counterterrorism alone: Root causes and the defeat of the Islamic State group

Steven Heydemann

Thursday, February 17, 2022

One policeman was martyred and another injured after a hand grenade was thrown at a police van in Peshawar. Officials said, that the police van was stationed at the Karkhono Market when the hand grenade was thrown on it by unidentified suspects. They added that the suspects fled the scene after throwing the grenade. (Photo by Hussain Ali/Pacific Press/Sipa USA)

Pakistan’s ambivalent approach toward a resurgent Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan

Friday, February 11, 2022

MOSCOW, RUSSIA NOVEMBER 11, 2021: Mali's Foreign Minister Abdoulaye Diop (L) and his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov give a joint news conference following their talks at the reception house of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Spiridonovka Street. Sergei Savostyanov/TASS

Russia’s Wagner Group in Africa: Influence, commercial concessions, rights violations, and counterinsurgency failure

Federica Saini Fasanotti

Tuesday, February 8, 2022

A motorist passes by a wall with a graffiti of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) in El Aguaje after the visit of Vatican's ambassador to Mexico Franco Coppola to the area and to the municipality of Aguililla, an area where the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) and local drug gangs are fighting to control the territory, in Michoacan state, Mexico April 23, 2021. REUTERS/Alan Ortega

Nonstate armed actors in 2022: Alive and powerful in the new geopolitics

Vanda Felbab-Brown

Tuesday, February 1, 2022

A general view of Kabul, Afghanistan, October 16, 2021. Picture taken October 16, 2021. REUTERS/Jorge Silva

Nonstate threats in the Taliban’s Afghanistan

Joshua T. White

Tuesday, February 1, 2022

Plastic bags covering fuel pumps to signal no gas is available is seen at a 7-Eleven gas station after a cyberattack crippled the biggest fuel pipeline in the country, run by Colonial Pipeline, in Lakeland, Florida, U.S. May 14, 2021. REUTERS/Octavio Jones

Cascading chaos: Nonstate actors and AI on the battlefield

Sarah Kreps and Richard Li

Tuesday, February 1, 2022

Protestors clash in Georgia

Reducing extreme polarization is key to stabilizing democracy

Stephanie Forrest and Joshua Daymude

Wednesday, January 26, 2022

Displaced people are seen in the camp build by the German NGO Help in Pissila, Burkina Faso January 24, 2020. Picture taken January 24, 2020. REUTERS/Anne Mimault

Toward a regional response to fragility, conflict, and violence in West Africa: ‘Think Regionally and Act Locally’

Nicolas Perrin and Aly Rahim

Friday, January 14, 2022

On January 6, 2021, Pro-Trump supporters and far-right forces flooded Washington DC to protest Trump's election loss. Hundreds breached the U.S. Capitol Building, aproximately 13 were arrested and one protester was killed. (Photo by Michael Nigro/Sipa USA)

Assessing the right-wing terror threat in the United States a year after the January 6 insurrection

Daniel L. Byman

Wednesday, January 5, 2022