The Program on Extremism at George Washington University. Analysis and policy solutions on radicalization, terrorism and extremism. Launched June 2015
The Iraqi Parliament is currently discussing an amnesty bill. The bill aims to address the issue of individuals who were possibly wrongfully detained following the occupation of Iraqi territories by ISIS. ⚖️
Social media radicalization has progressed, and continues to progress, in successive generations which seem to overtake and eventually dominate the previous strain. These generations carry important counterterrorism implications.
In May 2019, FBI first publicly expressed concern for what they identified as an emerging violent extremist threat. It warned that “anti-government, identity based, and fringe political conspiracy theories” were motivating extremists to commit criminal, sometimes violent, acts.
At the height of its territorial caliphate in Iraq and Syria, roughly between 2014 and 2016, the Islamic State largely provided direct funding to its global wings from its own coffers in the Middle East.
