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Terrorism

News, analysis, and opinions on extremist activity around the world, from fringe groups in the US to major organizations abroad.

White American men are a bigger domestic terrorist threat than Muslim foreigners

By Jennifer Williams

On the ground in Iraq, the war against ISIS is just getting started

By Elise Knutsen

Americans' sustained fear from 9/11 has turned into something more dangerous

By Alvin Chang

America’s former envoy to Afghanistan: the war can’t be won

By Sean Illing

Palestinians have spent decades battling Israel. Now they’re battling each other.

By Shira Rubin

Trump says he’s committed to fighting white supremacy. His policies say otherwise.

By Dara Lind

Iraqi forces just retook Mosul from ISIS. These photos show what they found.

By Gabriele Micalizzi

There is no rational justification for Trump’s travel ban

By Zack Beauchamp

Syria's lost generation of refugee children, in 12 pictures

By Yochi Dreazen

Iran was hit by a terrorist attack. Trump's response was that they had it coming.

By Sarah Wildman

A terrorism expert on why Trump's anti-Muslim posturing makes us less safe

By Sean Illing

Terror attack in Tehran: what we know so far

By Sarah Wildman

The London attack is the new face of terrorism — and it's very hard to stop

By Zack Beauchamp

Sweden truck attack: what we know so far

By German Lopez
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This is your brain on terrorism

By Carlos Maza
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Dear Hollywood: stop portraying Muslims as terrorists

By The Secret Life of Muslims team

Trump’s invention of a Swedish terrorist attack was funny. But it likely comes from a dark place.

By Zack Beauchamp

A congressman challenged CNN to name more than 2 white terrorist attacks. It’s not that hard.

By German Lopez

Trump just accused the “dishonest press” of intentionally covering up terrorist attacks

By Lindsay Maizland

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This American woman has given birth to 2 children while being held hostage in Afghanistan. Why is the family still there?

Washington’s muddled hostage policy has left an American family in the hands of the Taliban.

By Yochi Dreazen

The US says it won’t talk to terrorists. An American woman and her children are paying the price.

By Yochi Dreazen

Kellyanne Conway made up a fake terrorist attack to justify Trump’s “Muslim ban”

By Zack Beauchamp

Why Trump’s "Muslim ban" won’t stop the terrorism threat

By Jennifer Williams

How America's "war on terror" was (unwittingly) designed to last forever

By Sean Illing

Berlin and Ankara: a tale of two terror attacks

By Jennifer Williams

German authorities are investigating a deadly truck crash in Berlin as a terrorist attack

By Zeeshan Aleem
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An American Muslim comedian on being typecast as a terrorist — and being mistaken for one

By The Secret Life of Muslims team

Americans are more afraid of clowns than climate change, terrorism, and ... death

By Zachary Crockett

What Assad and Putin are doing in Syria "is not counter-terrorism. It is barbarism.”

By Jennifer Williams

Donald Trump Jr.'s terrorist-Skittle analogy is completely wrong

By Zachary Crockett and Javier Zarracina

No, Donald Trump, the Chelsea bombing doesn’t prove that immigrants are terrorist threats

By Zack Beauchamp

What people mean when they label an attack “terrorism”

By Jennifer Williams

Do terrorist attacks make a Trump win more likely? Here’s what the research suggests.

By Andrew Prokop

Most terrorist attacks in the US are committed by Americans — not foreigners

By Sarah Frostenson

Trump’s 2nd Amendment comment wasn’t a joke. It was "stochastic terrorism."

By Emily Crockett

In 1998, terrorists attacked two US embassies. No one blamed the secretary of state.

By Jennifer Williams

Donald Trump's plan for fighting terrorists: act like Saddam Hussein

By Libby Nelson

Why is ISIS turning to global terrorism? Because it’s losing.

By Zack Beauchamp

On guns, stop talking about terrorism. Start talking about domestic violence.

By Emily Crockett

A suspected terrorist can buy a gun more easily than Steph Curry can make a free throw

By Zachary Crockett