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Russia President Vladimir Putin lays flowers near the Technology Institute station in wake of the St. Petersburg attack. (AP)

Islamists of Central Asia: Latest Trend of Violent Extremism

by Mona Alami | Apr 18, 2017 | Features

Beirut – Russian authorities recently revealed that the suspected suicide bomber who attacked the metro in St. Petersburg was a Kyrgyz citizen born in Russia. This attack followed another that had targeted Reina nightclub in Istanbul on New Year’s Eve. That...

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Germany: Strict Sentences Against Extremists Who Formed Cell to Assassinate Far-Right Leaders

by Majid al-Khateeb | Apr 4, 2017 | World

Cologne- Court of Dusseldorf in Germany Monday sentenced to life in prison an Islamist militant who plotted a failed bomb attack at a railway station, and it handed jail terms to three other extremists. Marco Gaebel, 29, a German citizen, planted a homemade pipe bomb...

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A woman holds her smart phone, which displays the Google home page, in this picture illustration taken February 24, 2016. REUTERS/Eric Gaillard/Illustration/File Photo

Internet: The Magic Lamp of Extremists

by Salman Al-dossary | Mar 26, 2017 | Opinion

Only few days before the terrorist attack in London, an interesting report in The Times revealed that a number of extremists have uploaded videos of themselves on YouTube where various advertisements were shown alongside for: the Ministry of Interior, the Royal Navy,...

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Members of the Palestinian security forces loyal to Hamas conduct a military-style exercise for Palestinian students at a school in Gaza City January 7, 2014. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem

Hamas Takes Dozens of Extremists to Military Courts

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Mar 2, 2017 | Middle East

London – Hamas affiliated security bodies took dozens of opponents belonging to extremist groups to military courts in an unprecedented step, said reliable sources, knowing that they are civilians and have no ties with Palestinian security bodies whether in...

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Fighters from the Free Syrian Army sit inside an armored vehicle near the town of Bizaah, northeast of the city of al-Bab, on Feb. 4. (Nazeer al-Khatib/AFP/Getty Images)

‘Al-Qaeda is Eating Us’: Syrian Rebels are Losing Out to Extremists

by Liz Sly and Zakaria Zakaria | Feb 26, 2017 | Features

GAZIANTEP, Turkey — The biggest surviving rebel stronghold in northern Syria is falling under the control of al-Qaeda-linked extremists amid a surge of rebel infighting that threatens to vanquish what is left of the moderate rebellion. The ascent of the extremists in...