Canada Lists Radical Far-Right Wing Groups as Terrorist Organizations

  Bottom Line Up Front Just last week, Canada listed two radical far-right wing groups as terrorist organizations. Both of the newly listed terrorist groups—Blood and Honour and Combat 18—adhere to a Neo-Nazi ideology and advocate for the use of violence and intimidation to achieve their objectives. By listing Neo-Nazi ...

The Prisoners Dilemma: ISIS After Bagouz

On 23 May, John Walker Lindh was released after spending 17 years in a U.S. prison. The notorious “American Taliban”, convicted of providing support to a terrorist organization, will be kept under observation for years. That close supervision, however, cannot guarantee that he would be incapable (some would say “or ...

In Story of Jihadi John, Don't Trust the Headlines

Almost a year ago, I was approached by an award-winning documentary director and lauded journalist, Richard Kerbaj.  He was seeking insight and background on Al Qaida in Iraq and ISIS for a documentary film he was going to make for British Channel Four.  The film was about the hunt for ...

What a Designated Terrorist IRGC Could Mean for the U.S.

Iran’s Supreme National Security Council is taking retaliatory steps after President Donald Trump announced on Monday that the U.S. will designate Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a ‘foreign terrorist organization’. Iran now says it will designate U.S. Central Command as a ‘terrorist organization’.  The IRGC designation will impose ...

Terrorist Threats Not Always The Usual Suspects

New York State has convicted a white supremacist as a ‘terrorist’ for the first time in its history.  James Harris Jackson was convicted for the murder of Timothy Caughman, a 66-year-old African American man, in what has been classified as a hate crime.  Jackson pled guilty Tuesday to the charge ...

UK Terror Attack: Looking for Links to the U.S.

In the wake of London’s recent terrorist attack, United States intelligence and security agencies are working around the clock to share information across the pond and at home, all the while looking for ways to learn from this incident and potentially reprioritize efforts related to domestic threats. “Right now, FBI ...

Eritrea: A Potential U.S. Counterterror Partner

Instability and terrorism in the Horn of Africa, along with a massive conflict on the other side of the Red Sea in Yemen, threaten U.S. interests in the region. Deputy Director of the Atlantic Council’s Africa Center, Bronwyn Bruton, writes in a recent report, “the United States could find itself ...