A quarter of a century has passed since the 11 September 2001 attacks, providing an opportunity to view the commemoration from a European perspective and with a critical approach. 9/11 gave terrorism a different social presence and changed security practices, transforming, in many ways, aspects of people’s everyday lives.
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Another transformation to watch. In recent months, ITSTIME has highlighted how Africa should no longer be regarded simply as one of the theatres of expansion of contemporary jihadism, but as one of the spaces in which some of its most significant transformations are taking place.
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Quanto segue è una traduzione del paper pubblicato da A. Bolpagni per la rivista scientifica Sicurezza, Terrorismo, Società di ITSTIME (English version available at the following link https://www.sicurezzaterrorismosocieta.it/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/ebookBook_SicTerSoc_23-2026_Alessandro-Bolpagni.pdf).
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The case of a 37-year-old Palestinian man arrested on 6 June on the island of Crete for allegedly planning to attack a cruise ship linked to Israeli interests raises security issues regarding the terror overspill of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to Greece and Europe in general. The investigation continues, and already there are important security and legal points to take into account:
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Il 1° giugno 2026 è stato effettuato l’arresto nei confronti del ventunenne brianzolo Zakaria Ben Haddi con l’accusa di reato di terrorismo di matrice islamica. Il giovane, di origine marocchina ma nato e cresciuto in Italia, è risultato essere particolarmente attivo nella diffusione online di contenuto multimediale afferente allo Stato Islamico su Instagram e TikTok.
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On 18 May, at the Islamic Centre of San Diego (ICSD), California, Cain Clark and Caleb Vazquez, aged 17 and 18 respectively, carried out a shooting that left three people dead. The two teenagers subsequently took their own lives. Both the attack and their suicides were livestreamed. The attackers’ modus operandi, their clothing, the customisation of their weapons, and the existence of a manifesto clearly highlight the presence of influences from the extreme-right accelerationist ecosystem. However, reducing the case exclusively to the extreme-right milieu would risk offering a partial interpretation of the phenomenon.
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L’attentato di Modena è un’occasione importante per una riflessione attenta. Ci aiuta il partire dal presupposto che “non c’era alcuna buona ragione per pensare che non sarebbe successo” a Modena o altrove in Italia, perché si tratta di un attentato sviluppato con una modalità operativa da anni “viralizzata”: oggetto di specifica propaganda da parte del terrorismo, soprattutto jihadista, quale strumento facile e poco costoso (automobile ariete sulla folla e poi utilizzo del coltello da parte dell’attaccante) da imitare.
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Towards the end of 2026, the new book by ITSTIME Senior Fellow Professor Miron Lakomy, entitled Understanding Media Jihad, will be released. The volume will offer a comprehensive examination of how Salafi-Jihadi groups exploit the Internet as an instrument for strategic communication and propaganda dissemination.
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For Islamist extremist actors, attacking religious targets serves a strategic purpose due to the symbolic value and the victimization impact caused. While Christmas-related attacks have more frequently concerned European security authorities, Easter-related threats are not unprecedented.
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The latest issue of the journal Perspective on Terrorism features a paper written by our Senior Analyst A. Bolpagni and our Senior Fellow Analyst Dr A. Fisher. The paper presents the first-ever analysis of the stream of URLs within the pro-Islamic State (IS) server TechHaven on Rocket.Chat. The analysis collected URLs shared from the server’s creation in December 2018 up to October 2024.
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Dopo quasi due anni di silenzio, lo Stato Islamico torna a ‘far sentire la propria voce’, più precisamente quella del suo portavoce ufficiale Abu Hudhayfah al-Ansari. A seguito dell’arresto di Abu Omar al-Muhajir, nell’agosto del 2023, al-Ansari fa la sua comparsa in qualità di nuovo portavoce ufficiale, annunciando la proclamazione di Abu Hafs al-Hashimi al-Quraishi quale (allora) nuovo amir al-munimin (“comandante dei fedeli”) dello Stato Islamico.
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The ENGLISH version follows below.
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