On January 6, 2014, a massacre took place in a village in Nigeria’s Plateau State. Thirty-three people were slaughtered by men wielding guns and machetes.
We know that terrorist attacks can inspire others to act in similar ways but sometimes it is hard to tell if a given action is indeed terrorist in nature.
The assassination of IRGC General Soleimani in a US airstrike will make terrorism worse, not better, and takes our eye off a larger threat: Sunni terrorism.
The Philippines has been the unwanted stage for many terrorist groups over the decades, including Islamist ones.
Listen to this episode to find out what bothers me about the U.S. airstrike that killed Iranian General Qassem Soleimani.
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Quick Hits 9 – Mental Illness
Is there a link between mental illness and terrorism? Yes, sometimes, but not as often as you would think.
Terrorism is a subject of interest like many others but what does the academic study of it really tell us? Not a lot from a practical standpoint.
Despite our Western-centric views on terrorism, it is an unavoidable fact that the vast majority of casualties from Muslim terrorists are other Muslims.
We in the West take editorial cartoons and lampooning for granted: terrorists don’t.
On January 1, 2016 more than 300 West African migrants, including Gambians, Senegalese and Nigerians, were massacred by ISIS in Libya.