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July 2020

Jul 31
Fox News: Report: Taliban allowing Al Qaeda training camps and providing support, despite U.S. agreement to cut all ties
Jul 30
PolitiFact: No, Black Lives Matter is not a terrorist organization
Jul 27
Defense One: Monuments, terrorism and the American white power movement
Jul 16
The Irish Times: Keeping the Peace
Jul 12
NBC: Protesters hit by cars recently highlight a dangerous far-right trend in America
Jul 9
Fox News: Taliban, despite 'peace' talks, led the world by far in 2019 terrorist attacks, study finds

June 2020

Jun 1
New York Times: What Is Antifa, the Movement Trump Wants to Declare a Terror Group?
Jun 1
Vox: People are running over George Floyd protesters. Are far-right memes to blame?

February 2020

Feb 6
The Conversation: The 6 countries in Trump’s new travel ban pose little threat to US national security
Feb 5
Bustle: Practical Steps To Take If You're Feeling Anxious In The Wake Of A Terrorist Attack

January 2020

Jan 9
The New York Times: Trump's Inaccurate Statements About the Conflict With Iran

December 2019

Dec 29
NBC: Victims of terror tell of invisible wounds that never heal
Dec 16
Forbes: Peace Of Mind In A Risky World
Dec 5
PolitiFact: Terrorism in the United States: key facts, patterns and trends

November 2019

Nov 26
War on the Rocks: When Does Terrorism Have a Strategic Effect?
Nov 20
CNN: Report finds the Taliban were deadlier than ISIS in 2018
Nov 20
PR Newswire: 2019 Global Terrorism Index: Deaths From Terrorism Halved in the Last Four Years, but Number of Countries Affected by Terrorism is Growing
Nov 5
Washington Post: The death of Baghdadi isn’t the end of ISIS

October 2019

Oct 27
Los Angeles Times: I study terrorism. A white supremacist attack in my neighborhood woke me up to the danger at home
Oct 18
CNN: Trump parrots talking points from Putin, Erdogan on Syria
Oct 17
The New York Times: Fact-Checking Trump on Syria, Erdogan and the Kurds
Oct 13
The National Interest: Terrorism: Making a Comeback or on the Decline? A New Report Has Answers.
Oct 11
Council on Foreign Relations: The New Terrorism Reality
Oct 4
PRISM: The Business Case For Terrorism

September 2019

Sep 28
Foreign Policy: What Terrorism Experts Can Learn From Public Health Experts
Sep 27
CTC Sentinel: Eighteen Years On: The War on Terror Comes of Age
Sep 16
UN CTED Analytical Brief: Responding to terrorist threats against soft targets

August 2019

Aug 21
Department of State DipNote: Remembering the Victims of Terrorism
Aug 6
The Washington Post: Just how bad is the white nationalist terrorism problem?
Aug 4
New York Times: White Extremist Ideology Drives Many Deadly Shootings
Aug 1
AFP Fact Check: No, that is the approximate total number of terror attacks recorded globally over that period

July 2019

Jul 19
The Washington Post: Terrorism does increase with immigration - but only homegrown, right-wing terrorism
Jul 4
Small Wars Journal: Global Terrorism May be Down but is Still a Threat In 2019 - Are We Ready?
Jul 2
The New York Times: What Is Antifa? Explaining the Movement to Confront the Far Right

June 2019

Jun 13
National Geographic: Surrounded by chaos, Niger is a nation on the edge
Jun 13
The Conversation: Boko Haram deploys lots of women suicide bombers. I found out why

May 2019

May 29
New Republic: Racial Terror and the Second Repeal of Reconstruction
May 25
NBC: Inside the U.S. military's white supremacy problem
May 23
Bustle: White Supremacist Terrorism In The US Is On The Rise, The FBI Found
May 16
Medium: Is Iran the biggest state sponsor of terrorism?
May 8
Newsweek: Domestic terrorism hearings focus on social media regulation

April 2019

Apr 24
CNN: Are Muslims and Christians at war? The data says no
Apr 23
The Economist: Global jihadists turn increasingly against religious targets
Apr 5
Wall Street Journal: Far-Right Extremist Crimes Have Been With Us for Decades
Apr 5
World Economic Forum: These are the biggest risks facing the Middle East and North Africa
Apr 4
Fortune Magazine: Domestic Terrorism Is On the Rise. But How Prepared Is the U.S. to Counter It?
Apr 3
The New York Times: Attacks by White Extremists Are Growing. So Are Their Connections.

March 2019

Mar 27
News media features START expertise in wake of attack
Mar 27
PBS: Durbin set to reintroduce his anti-domestic terrorism bill. Here's how it would work
Mar 13
Center for American Progress: Turkey's Refugee Dilemma

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