• Op-Eds
    Palestine/IsraelViolent Extremism

    Settler ‘rioters’ are Israeli state policy—through deniable means

    Oct 16, 2026Dana El Kurd

    The official framing from the Israeli state, repeated often in western media, is that this is fringe behaviour. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemned the…

  • Policy Analysis
    Palestine/IsraelViolent Extremism

    From Hilltops to Houses: A New Phase of Israeli Settlement Expansion

    Sep 18, 2026Dalia Hatuqa

    On August 9, 2026, Israeli settlers surrounded three houses in the Ras al-Ain area of Qusra, a Palestinian village southeast of Nablus in the West Bank. The se…

  • Book Review
    Violent Extremism

    Azmi Bishara, ISIS: The March to Dystopia

    Jul 23, 2026Abdelwahab El-Affendi

    ​There was worldwide sigh of relief when the ninety-member ‘Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS’, founded under US leadership in September 2014, announced the vanq…

  • Intern Corner
    IraqViolent Extremism

    Shia Militias in Iraq: A Backgrounder

    May 14, 2026Zainab Abdi

    On February 28, 2026, the United States and Israel launched a joint military operation against Iran. In response, a coalition of Iran-aligned armed groups in I…

  • Webinar
    Palestine/IsraelJustice, Equality, and Human Rights

    Palestine Under the Cover of the Iran War: Oppression and Ethnic Cleansing Escalate

    May 20, 2026 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM ET

    Experts examine developments in Palestine since the onset of the Iran war, and how Israel has used the conflict to advance its annexation objectives.

  • Policy Analysis
    IraqViolent Extremism

    The Islamic State Is Trying to Rebound

    Taking advantage of the world’s attention to the Israel-Hamas and Israel-Hezbollah conflicts, the so-called Islamic State (IS) is trying to reconstitute itself…

  • Policy Analysis
    Palestine/IsraelViolent Extremism

    Sde Teiman and Beit Lid Events: A Reading into the Militiazation of the Israeli State

    Aug 21, 2024Mohanad Mustafa

    The storming by right-wing groups of the Sde Teiman military camp in the Negev—a brutal detention center for residents of Gaza—and the Beit Lid barracks on the…

  • Intern Corner
    Palestine/IsraelViolent Extremism

    Militarization of Settler Groups Threatens to Open a West Bank Front

    Jun 20, 2024Kellie Kuenzle

    Mobs of masked, weapon-wielding men descended upon the Palestinian villages of al-Mughayyir, Duma, Deir Dibwan, Beitin, and Aqraba throughout the month of Apri…

  • External Readings
    Palestine/IsraelViolent Extremism

    West Bank’s settler violence problem is a second sign that Israel’s policy of ignoring Palestinians’ drive for a homeland isn’t a long-term solution

    Nov 26, 2023Dana El Kurd

    Israeli settlers, empowered by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-wing government, have increased their attacks on and harassment of Palestinian rural c…

  • Policy Analysis
    Palestine/IsraelViolent Extremism

    The Rapid and Predictable Rise of Israeli Settler Violence Against Palestinians

    Mar 8, 2023Yara M. Asi

    Huwwara is a small town outside of Nablus that, largely due to its location on a prominent route in the occupied West Bank, has been subject to a significant I…

  • Policy Analysis
    LevantViolent Extremism

    Is the Islamic State Rebounding in Syria and Iraq?

    The nearly two-week siege in January of the Ghuwayran prison and parts of the town of Hasaka by fighters of the so-called Islamic State (IS) in northeastern Sy…

  • Op-Eds
    SyriaUS Foreign Policy

    The ISIS leader killed in a U.S. special forces raid will be replaced. ISIS is reviving.

    Feb 3, 2022Charles W. Dunne

    President Joe Biden’s announcement Thursday that a U.S. special forces operation in Idlib province in northern Syria killed Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi,…

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