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In this Wednesday, April 7, 2021 file photo, a firework explodes as Nationalist and Loyalist rioters clash with one another at the peace wall on Lanark Way in West Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Critical State
Troubled geography: Part I
An angry mob storms the US Capitol building.
Extremism
US Capitol attack exposes depth of America’s problem with white extremism
People gather for a vigil to remember victims of the mass shootings at Dayton and El Paso and hold placards that read, "We can end gun violence," in Brooklyn, New York.
Extremism
Obama-era extremist programs don’t tackle white nationalism, expert says
A man sits on a couch in his living room.
Global Politics
‘Maybe we need more God in prisons’ to curb radicalization, says one former extremist
A surfer falls from his board while riding after sunset in Cardiff, California.
Books
The radicalization of a surfer dude
A conservative Saudi Arabian cleric has said women who drive risk damaging their ovaries and bearing children with clinical problems
Books
Meet the Saudi woman who ignited a firestorm when she got behind the wheel
Laura Passoni took her four-year-old son to Syria in 2014 to join ISIS and realized quickly she'd made a terrible mistake. "From that moment I did everything to try to leave so that my son wouldn’t become a terrorist,” she says.
Books
A Belgian woman explains why she joined ISIS, and why she came back
Mubin Shaikh
Conflict
He traveled to Syria to study Islam. He came back de-radicalized.
"When you are pregnant you have pain and afterwards you have a baby that's there but when your baby died you have pain but are left with nothing." Saliha Ben Ali, 49, mother of 19-year-old Sabri Ben Ali, who died in Syria in December 2013. She's the lead
Conflict
These mothers lost their sons to ISIS. What have been their next steps?
Christianne Boudreau lost her son Damian to ISIS. Now she's offering support to parents who've also lost their children to jihadi extremism.
Conflict
‘They look at our children as monsters, and they’re not,’ argues mom of ISIS fighter
SafeMode at SXSW
Justice
The World explores youth activism at SXSW
A photo of Bangladeshi American blogger, Avijit Roy, last year holding a book on Rabindranath Tagore. Roy blogged about scientific thought and apathy towards religion, taboo subjects in his home country of Bangladesh.
Belief
An atheist blogger in Bangladesh is hacked to death by religious fanatics
Police guard the scene of a shooting at cafe 'Krudttonden,' which was hosting a free speech event, in Copenhagen on Monday.
Belief
This German activist who worked with skinheads and neo-Nazis is now trying to de-radicalize young Muslims
An man holds a picture in support of Cherif and Said Kouachi during a demonstration against Charlie Hebdo in Kabul. The brothers stormed the French satirical magazine's Paris offices in January, killing 12 people.
Conflict
Pakistan is an unexpected leader in rehabilitating former jihadis
Abderrazak and Alexandre Cherif in Hatay, Turkey. Alexandre's face is blurred because he's minor who is currently in French prison.
Conflict
The teen had enough of war. He came home from Syria. And promptly got arrested.
Veiled women walk past a billboard that carries a verse from the Koran urging women to wear a hijab in the northern Syrian province of Raqqa.
Conflict
Western young women who join ISIS can’t fight, but they sure can tweet
Mohammed Jamil lived across the street from Iman Shawan, who left the Kurdish community to join ISIS.
Conflict
Kurdish men are joining ISIS to kill their own people
A screenshot from a video released by four Bahraini men calling on their Sunni countrymen to take up arms against the country's ruling family and Shiite majority.
Conflict
ISIS looks to spread its recruiting and violence to the Persian Gulf
Usama Hasan
Conflict
Hundreds of Britons, including the man who killed James Foley, are fighting for ISIS
Conflict & Justice
Anti-Terror Chief in Europe Warns that Volunteers in Syria Could Come Home as Terrorists
Conflict & Justice
Who Radicalized the Boston Bombing Suspects?
Do US Counter-Terrorism Efforts Focus Too Much On Muslims?
Google Ideas Gathers Former Extremists to Target Radicalization
Conflict & Justice
Following King Hearing: History of Islam in American Prisons
Conflict & Justice
Emotions Rage At Domestic Terrorism Hearing
Top of the Hour: Hearings on Radicalization of American Muslims, Morning Headlines
Your Take: Possible Progress from Today’s Hearing
Top of the Hour: Congressional Hearings on the ‘Radicalization of Muslims’, Morning Headlines
Global Politics
In Support of Hearings on the ‘Radicalization of Muslims’
Conflict & Justice
Tracking Homegrown Terrorists
Conflict & Justice
India’s Muslim community part 2
Conflict & Justice
Re-education school for Muslim extremists