“Missione compiuta” o, meglio, “la PMC Wagner ha completato la sua missione in Mali”. Con queste parole, il 6 giugno, due tra i principali canali di propaganda dell’ecosistema Wagner su Telegram hanno annunciato (in contemporanea) con un video, seguito da un breve messaggio, la fine delle operazioni della PMC Wagner in Mali.
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Fin dalla sua nascita, il collettivo di estrema destra Terrorgram ha promosso l’accelerazionismo militante con l’obiettivo di portare al collasso la società moderna, considerata corrotta, per dar luogo a una rivoluzione suprematista bianca in cui il caos, la violenza e atti terroristici vengono utilizzati per consentire la creazione di un etno-stato bianco.
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Il 22 gennaio 2025, il diciassettenne Solomon Sahmad Charlie Henderson ha commesso uno school shooting alla Antioch High School di Nashville, Tennessee (USA). Alle 11.09, Henderson è entrato nella mensa scolastica dell’edificio scolastico e ha aperto il fuoco, ferendo un compagno e uccidendo una studentessa per poi togliersi la vita.
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The New Orleans and Las Vegas Trump Hotel attacks should both bring to the attention of experts the issue of war veteran’s post-traumatic stress and the connection between military service and extremist ideologies.
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WHAT WE KNOW(SALT report) – Size. An armed individual, self-proclaimed as an ISIS-affiliated operative, wearing a military fatigue, driving a rented pick-up truck packed with explosives (meant to be a VBIED[1]).
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On January 1, 2025, former US Army soldier Shamsud-Din Bahar Jabbar drove a pickup truck on Bourbon Street, in the heart of New Orleans, killing 14 people and injuring 35 more. According to Lyonel Myrthil, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Special Agent, Jabbar had visited the city twice prior to the attack.
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2024 ends in the echo of the Magdeburg attack, a reminder of the gaps and weaknesses security agencies face when trying to combat terrorism. Earlier in December, the European Council acknowledged that “terrorism and violent extremism, as well as radicalisation, continue to pose a significant threat to the European Union and its Member States” and recognised how “destabilising internal and external events, such as Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine and the ongoing conflict in the Middle East, have heightened the terrorism threat level in some Member States and contributed to the intensification of radicalisation and social polarisation, potentially leading to terrorism and violent extremism across the Union”.
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Since October 2024, ITSTIME has been monitoring and analysing the presence of pro-Islamic State (IS) propaganda content on the TikTok application. The research undertaken made it possible to initially identify more than 180 seed accounts, which were used to reconstruct a network of more than 140,000 users.
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L’attentato ai mercatini di Natale di Magdeburgo di qualche giorno fa non introduce grandi novità nell’ambito della definizione di un nuovo tipo di terrorismo e innovative forme di estremismo.
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Taleb Al Abdulmohsen: saudita in Germania ma ostile all’immigrazione, arabo ma sionista, con background musulmano ma profondamente islamofobo, contrario all’oltranzismo religioso jihadista ma attentatore con modalità analoghe, ovvero il cosiddetto vehicle-ramming, l’auto lanciata a tutta velocità sulla folla.
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Although many in the West associate the Middle East as being the main source of jihadism, deaths due to terrorism in sub-Saharan Africa have outpaced those in the Middle East for the past several years.
Continue reading At the 14th Illicit Network Workshop hosted by the University of Leiden, ITSTIME presented findings from its study: “Navigating Beyond the Digital Safe Haven: Mapping the Course of Salafi-Jihadi Online Movements Outside Rocket.Chat Through URL Social Network Analysis (SNA)”.
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