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April 20, 1995 | LRA Massacre in Uganda

Lord’s Resistance Army massacred hundreds of civilians in northern Uganda in April 1995 and took women and girls as slaves.

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April 18, 2014 | Armed attack on UN base in South Sudan

On this day in 2014, a mob of civilians posing as protesters stormed a UN compound in South Sudan and shot dead 48 people, some with RPGs.

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April 11, 2002 | Bombing at Ghriba Synagogue in Tunisia

Al Qaeda followed up 9/11 with a terrorist attack on the Djerba Ghriba synagogue in Tunisia where a suicide bomber detonated a truck killing 19 people.

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April 9, 2017 | ISIS church bombings in Egypt

The Sinai branch of ISIS carried out two suicide attacks on Christian worshipers on Palm Sunday killing 37 people and wounding 136

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April 2, 2015 | Attack on Kenyan University

On this day in 2015, Al Shabaab terrorists besieged Garissa University in northeastern Kenya. Four gunmen stormed the campus and began firing indiscriminately.

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April 1, 2018 | Al Shabaab attack in Somalia

On this day in 2018, the Somalia-based terrorist group Al Shabaab claimed it attacked an African Union (AMISOM) base with two car bombs, killing 59 Ugandan soldiers.

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Podcast 34 – Discussing radicalization with Lorne L. Dawson

Can scholars and security intelligence practitioners work better together? Phil Gurski talks with the University of Waterloo’s religion scholar Lorne Dawson.

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The Jihadi view of the world in a nutshell

We talk a lot about ideology when it comes to terrorism: sometimes it is a good idea to remind ourselves of the basics.

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March 24, 2018 | Five policemen injured in IED blast in India

On this day in 2018, five District Reserve Guard (DRG) jawans were injured in an IED blast, suspected to be carried out by Naxals, in Chhattisgarh’s Sukma district.

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March 14, 2016 | Stabbing Attack on Canadian Forces office in Toronto

On this day in 2016, a man was arrested after walking into a Canadian Forces recruiting office in Toronto and allegedly stabbing two Forces members.