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Today in Terrorism: December 01, 2018 – Jihadi attack in Mozambique

Recent attacks by a jihadi group in Mozambique demonstrate that this brand of terrorism is not going away: quite the opposite.

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Today in Terrorism: November 27, 2015 – Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood shooting

On this day on 2015, Robert Dear entered a planned parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs engaged in a standoff with police that lasted for hours.

Books by Phil Gurski

Books By Phil Gurski Phil Gurski has written six books on terrorism since 2015: the latest is The Peaceable Kingdom? A history of terrorism in Canada from Confederation to the present (published by Double Dagger in 2022).  Here is some information on all six and how to get a copy. Western Foreign Fighters: The Threat […]

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Today in Terrorism: November 24, 2017 – Islamic State attacks in Egypt

On this day in 2017, attackers bombed a mosque in the town of Bir al-Abed in North Sinai before opening fire on fleeing worshipers.

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The greening of terrorism?

Why the sustained use of violence by environmental groups is just a matter of time.

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Today in Terrorism: November 20, 1979 – Siege at Grand Mosque in Mecca

Today is one of those days in history where I have an unfortunate richness in terrorist attacks to choose from.

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Today in Terrorism: November 19, 1995 – Attack on the Egyptian Embassy in Pakistan

A suicide bomber rammed his explosive-packed truck into the Egyptian Embassy in Islamabad on Nov. 19, 1995, killing 15 people, including the second secretary of the embassy and three Egyptian security guards.

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When we prematurely pronounce a terrorist group dead

We really need to stop prematurely declaring the death of terrorist groups despite our need to celebrate victories.

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Today in Terrorism: 12 November

In 2015, 43 people were killed and more than 240 wounded in two suicide bomb blasts claimed by ISIS in Beirut’s southern suburbs.

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Today in Terrorism: 1 November 2016 ISIS affiliate attack in Democratic Republic of Congo

There appears to be an ISIS affiliate in the DRC that is carrying out terrorist acts The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is a huge central African country that is both blessed and cursed. It has abundant natural resources, including deposits of cobalt, copper, diamond, tantalum, tin, gold and coltan, the latter of which is […]