Terrorism

Boko Haram’s leader, Abubakar Shekau, appears in a video in which he warns Cameroon it faces the same fate as Nigeria. (Boko Haram video screenshot)
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Boko Haram’s leader, Abubakar Shekau, appears in a video in which he warns Cameroon it faces the same fate as Nigeria. (Boko Haram video screenshot)
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Abdulbasit Kassim
Graduate Student, Islamic Studies & African Religions, Rice University
Jacob Zenn
Research Analyst, The Jamestown Foundation, and Research Fellow, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences
Abdulbasit Kassim & Jacob Zenn
Long Read
Malik Mumtaz Hussain Qadri shouts, 'We are ready to sacrifice our life for the prestige of the Prophet Mohammad' Islamabad on January 5, 2011 a day after the assassination of the governor of Punjab province Salman Taseer. (AAMIR QURESHI/AFP/Getty Images)
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Malik Mumtaz Hussain Qadri shouts, 'We are ready to sacrifice our life for the prestige of the Prophet Mohammad' Islamabad on January 5, 2011 a day after the assassination of the governor of Punjab province Salman Taseer. (AAMIR QURESHI/AFP/Getty Images)
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Farahnaz Ispahani
Former member, Parliament of Pakistan
Farahnaz Ispahani
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A protest against military regime on the fifth anniversary of Egyptian revolution, in Giza, Egypt on January 24, 2016. (Hesham Fathy/Anadolu Ag
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A protest against military regime on the fifth anniversary of Egyptian revolution, in Giza, Egypt on January 24, 2016. (Hesham Fathy/Anadolu Ag
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Mokhtar Awad
Research Fellow, George Washington University's Program on Extremism
Samuel Tadros
Former Senior Fellow
Mokhtar Awad & Samuel Tadros
4 Min Read
Map Of The Umayyad Caliphate Empire In 750 And The Islamic Empire In 1215. (Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)
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Map Of The Umayyad Caliphate Empire In 750 And The Islamic Empire In 1215. (Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)
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Alexander Orwin
Post-Doctoral Fellow, Constitutional Government, Harvard University
Alexander Orwin
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Screenshot from a propaganda video uploaded on June 11 by the Islamic State allegedly shows militants driving at an undisclosed location in Iraq's Nineveh province.
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Screenshot from a propaganda video uploaded on June 11 by the Islamic State allegedly shows militants driving at an undisclosed location in Iraq's Nineveh province.
Commentary
Daveed Gartenstein-Ross
Senior Fellow, Foundation for Defense of Democracies
Nathaniel Barr
Research Manager, Valens Global
Daveed Gartenstein-Ross & Nathaniel Barr
Long Read
City market, Marrakech, Morocco. (Jeremy Woodhouse/Getty Images)
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City market, Marrakech, Morocco. (Jeremy Woodhouse/Getty Images)
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Ahmed Abbadi
President, Mohammedia League of Moroccan Ulama
Ahmed Abbadi
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Pakistani devotees gather outside the shrine of 13th century Muslim Sufi saint Lal Shahbaz Qalandar a day after a bomb blew up at the shrine in the town of Sehwan in Sindh province, February 17, 2017. (ASIF HASSAN/AFP/Getty Images)
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Pakistani devotees gather outside the shrine of 13th century Muslim Sufi saint Lal Shahbaz Qalandar a day after a bomb blew up at the shrine in the town of Sehwan in Sindh province, February 17, 2017. (ASIF HASSAN/AFP/Getty Images)
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husain_haqqani
Senior Fellow and Director for South and Central Asia
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The body of killed Russian opposition leader and former Deputy Prime Minister Boris Nemtsov, covered by plastic, seen on Bolshoi Moskvoretsky bridge near St. Basil cathedral, Moscow, Russia, February 28, 2015. (Stringer/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
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The body of killed Russian opposition leader and former Deputy Prime Minister Boris Nemtsov, covered by plastic, seen on Bolshoi Moskvoretsky bridge near St. Basil cathedral, Moscow, Russia, February 28, 2015. (Stringer/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
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David Satter
Former Senior Fellow
David Satter
5 Min Read
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