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START in the News


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September 2019

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

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
Mar 7
Center for American Progress: Confronting the Domestic Right-Wing Terrorist Threat

February 2019

Feb 27
The Conversation: Will terrorism continue to decline in 2019?
Feb 20
Newsweek: Muslim terror attacks get 357 percent more media coverage than others: Study
Feb 2
CNN: Law enforcement teaches rental car employees how to spot potential attackers in new video

January 2019

Jan 24
Fox: Concern over future funding of top terrorism database
Jan 17
ABC: Terror attacks in 2019 highlight challenges remain
Jan 12
Council on Foreign Relations: The Top Conflicts to Watch in 2019: Terrorist Attack
Jan 9
Snopes: Does Lack of Affordable Healthcare Kill More People in America Than Terrorism and Illegal Immigration?
Jan 3
New Republic: A Database Showed Far-Right Terror on the Rise. Then Trump Defunded It.

December 2018

Dec 28
Washington Post: 2019: The Year in Preview
Dec 20
Wall Street Journal: Europe Faces Continuing Terror Threat, While Concerns in U.S. Ebb, Study Finds
Dec 20
CNN (Philippines): Philippines climbs to 10th spot in Global Terrorism Index
Dec 14
Forbes (Portugal): Terrorism: The World's Most Powerful Organizations
Dec 13
The Belfer Center: Jihadists from Ex-Soviet Central Asia: Where Are They? Why Did They Radicalize? What Next?
Dec 6
United Nations: Secretary-General's remarks to the first meeting of the United Nations Global Counter-Terrorism Compact Coordination Committee
Dec 5
CNN: Terrorism deaths down in 2017, but far-right terrorism rising, report says
Dec 5
BNN Bloomberg: The biggest political risks to the world economy in 2019
Dec 5
MSN News: Canada was pushed up 9 places in a global terror ranking after Quebec mosque shooting: report
Dec 5
PR Newswire: IEP's 2018 Global Terrorism Index: Deaths From Terrorism Down 44 per Cent in Three Years, but Terrorism Remains Widespread
Dec 4
The Washington Post: The U.S. believes that kidnapped journalist Austin Tice is still alive. Here are 5 things to know about global kidnapping.

November 2018

Nov 24
The New York Times: The New Radicalization of the Internet
Nov 21
The New York Times: Two Decades After 9/11, Militants Have Only Multiplied
Nov 18
Voice of America: Far-right Extremism Rising in US, Report Says
Nov 15
The New Republic: California's Wildfires Don't Have to Be So Deadly
Nov 7
CSIS: The Rise of Far-Right Extremism in the United States
Nov 3
The New York Times: U.S. Law Enforcement Failed to See the Threat of White Nationalism. Now They Don't Know How to Stop It.

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