Terrorism

After the Easter Sunday attacks that left at least 200 people dead, a religious studies professor looks back at how Christianity came to the island nation.

The Christchurch shooting continues a global pattern: Around the world, the majority of victims of terrorist attacks are Muslim.

Whites were twice as likely to sympathize with violent protests and/or terrorist acts as native Pakistanis.

Hoda Muthana, a 23-year-old American from Alabama who joined ISIS in 2015, wants to come home and face justice—is that possible?

In Minneapolis–St.Paul, Minnesota a number of organizations are using community collaboration to steer young people away from potential political extremism.

The arrest of a heavily armed white nationalist in Maryland on Wednesday follows another year of deadly far-right extremism.

A woman reacts after being rescued from the Dusit Hotel on January 15th, 2019, in Nairobi, Kenya.

Studies find that many of them connect with like-minded believers online and broadcast their ideology and intentions before they act.

A New York Bomb Squad officer walks out of the Time Warner Building in Manhattan, New York, on October 24th, 2018, after a suspected explosive device was delivered to CNN's New York bureau.

New research finds overall feelings toward the religious minority did not dampen in the aftermath of two major terrorist attacks.

A year after the liberation of Mosul, Iraq's boys find themselves in a series of dead ends.

A conversation with Joan Carling, Filipino gender equality advocate, former adviser to the United Nations, and an enemy of the state, according to the Duterte government.

What the Toronto Killer's online misogyny reveals about the threat from the alt-right.

From growing up in rural Delaware to opening the National Memorial for Peace and Justice.

They're reading the same websites, talking to each other, and killing the same targets. The lone wolves are actually a pack.

What happens when suicide forestalls any possibility of justice?

This past year—2017—saw a surge in extremist violence, much of it related to white supremacist activity. But as the Women's March shows, for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.

Pakistani Christians take part in a service at the Sacred Heart Cathedral in Lahore on December 18th, 2017, for the victims of a suicide attack on a church the day prior.

The terrorist attack on a mosque in Egypt was potentially motivated by extremist groups viewing Sufi religious practices as a threat to their intolerant worldview.

Trump also told reporters that he would consider sending the suspected terrorist to Guantánamo Bay in Cuba.

Attacks like the one in New York City can alter people's psychology and their politics.

Eight people are reported dead, and at least 15 are injured.

After the deadliest terror attack to hit Somalia in years, residents of Nairobi's "Little Mogadishu" neighborhood cope with a national tragedy from thousands of miles away.

The attack on the Somali capital could further destabilize an already tenuous governmental situation in the East African nation.