The Digital Battlefield
How Terrorists Use the Internet and Online Networks for Recruitment and Radicalization
SITE Intelligence Group
The Order of Nine Angles
Its Worldview and Connection to Violent Extremism
Memos
Composite Violent Extremism: A Radicalization Pattern Reshaping Terrorism
The report explains composite violent extremism (CoVE) and introduces its four subtypes: ambiguous, mixed, fused, and convergent extremism.
Memos
The Order of Nine Angles: Cosmology, Practice & Movement
Excerpt In June 2020, authorities arrested U.S. Army private Ethan Melzer for conspiring to orchestrate a terrorist attack against his own unit, the 173rd Airborne Brigade, when it deployed to Turkey to...
Memos
Composite Violent Extremism: A Radicalization Pattern Changing the Face of Terrorism
Before opening fire in a Bend, Oregon, grocery store in August 2022, Ethan Miller expressed his hatred toward “EVERYONE & EVERYTHING.” Bearing this out, his rambling online posts displayed racial...
Op-eds
Behind the Black Bloc
An Overview of Militant Anarchism and Anti-Fascism
Monographs
Skinheads, Saints, and (National) Socialists
An Overview of the Transnational White Supremacist Extremist Movement
Monographs
Hamza bin Laden calls for regime change in Saudi Arabia
Hamza bin Laden, Osama’s heir, calls on Muslims to overthrow the Saudi monarchy in a newly released audio message. The junior bin Laden’s speech was disseminated by As Sahab, al Qaeda...
Op-eds
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula Claims Responsibility for Charlie Hebdo Attack
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), an official branch of al Qaeda's international organization, has claimed responsibility for the terrorist attack on C...
Op-eds
Video Shows Terrorist Responsible for Paris Market Attack Pledging Allegiance to Islamic State
A new video has been posted online showing Amedy Coulibaly, who killed a French policewoman and attacked a kosher market in Paris last week, pledging allegiance to the...
Op-eds
Analysis: Al Qaeda and Other Jihadists Repeatedly Threatened French Magazine
The identities and backgrounds of the terrorists who assaulted Charlie Hebdo, a French magazine, are still unknown. The Long War Journal cautions agai...
Op-eds
A Failure of Policy
Forty-one recently declassified State Department documents obtained by Judicial Watch, a conservative watchdog group, have reignited the controversy over the September 11, 2012, terrorist attack...
Op-eds
Assessing Terrorism in the Caucasus and the Threat to the Homeland
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Congressional Testimonies
A Well-Deserved Terrorist Designation
The State Department announced today that Boko Haram, a prolific terrorist and insurgency group based in...
Op-eds
Pakistani Taliban Leader Killed By US After 4-Year Hunt
After years of effort, the U.S. has finally killed Hakeemullah Mehsud, the leader of al-Qaeda linked Movement of the Taliban Pakistan, in the latest drone strike in Pakistan’s tribal agency...
Op-eds
CIA Warned of ‘Jihadist’ Threat to Cairo Embassy
The Obama administration’s editing of the Benghazi talking points not only obscured what really happened in Libya on September 11, 2012, it also confused the events of earlier that day in C...
Op-eds
Dagestani Jihadist Group Issues Statement on Boston Bombings
Vilayat Dagestan, a jihadist group that is part of the Caucasus Emirate, an al Qaeda-linked group operating in the North Caucas...
Op-eds
Al Qaeda Intelligence Chief Reported Killed in Drone Strike
Abu Ubaydah Abdullah al Adam, a senior al Qaeda leader who serves as the intelligence chief for the terror group, is reported to have been killed in a recent US drone strike in Pakistan's tr...
Op-eds
AQAP Confirms Death of Commander, Charges Father and Son with ‘Spying’ for US
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula has confirmed that a local commander linked to a 2008 attack on the US Embassy in Sana'a was killed in a drone strike last November. The terror group accuse...
Op-eds
Manhunt Continues in Boston, as Analysts Turn to Social Media for Clues
The manhunt for one of the two chief suspects in this week's Boston Marathon bombings has continued throughout the day. And as the younger of two brothers is pursued by authorities, analysts...