New research shows how we can track and even anticipate terrorists’ movements using social media.
Schematic diagram of an aggregate made up of linked users, with the mathematical equation that describes this online pro-ISIS ecology.
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A new mathematical model of ISIS supporters’ online behavior provides insights into how cyberactivity relates to real-world attacks.
Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally in Greensboro, North Carolina on June 15, 2016.
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Two experts in political rhetoric explain how one candidate has used rhetorical devices like framing and ‘argumentum in terrorem’ to stoke fear and attract voters since the Orlando nightclub shooting.
Police match.
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Police face overwhelming pressure from two kinds of violence.
Hate crime or terrorism?
REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton
Was this a crime about hate or political ideology? Extremist experts use data to explain what type of crime took place in Florida, and why it matters.
How should the media report purported links between Islamic State and events like the Orlando shootings?
Reuters/Steve Nesius
Terrorism and links to IS – real or purported – need to be very carefully handled by the media for fear of reproducing propaganda.
Reuters/Lucy Nicholson
Business Briefing: what breeds terrorism?
The breeding ground for terrorism isn't necessarily poverty - it's the middle class.
EPA/John Taggart
In our modern understanding of terror, Islamic extremism seems to trump everything else. This is a mistake.
EPA/Cristobal Herrera
The Orlando LGBTI massacre looks like the work of an individual rather than a planned terror attack, but it’s no less deadly for that.
EPA/John G Mablango
It has taken the killing of 50 innocent people at an LGBT club to bring home how much homophobia is embedded in Western societies.
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Recent attacks in Paris and Brussels have taught the French some important lessons about how to deal with the threat of terrorism.
With the “Brexit” decision looming, citizens of the European Union may be walking into a troublesome future.
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In two weeks, Brits will cast a vote that could change the future of the European Union. A UCLA expert explores the continent’s greatest threats to unity.
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From Twitter, to Facebook, to online gaming; radical groups use a vast range of tools to recruit new followers to their causes.
Refugees waiting to receive essential items, including food, jerry cans, blankets, soap and plastic sheeting, at Kenya’s Dadaab refugee camp.
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The timing of Kenya’s announcement that it will close the world’s largest refugee camp, and its reasons for doing so, hold important lessons for understanding refugee situations around the world.
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UKIP leader Nigel Farage has attacked the European Arrest Warrant for putting British nationals at risk of extradition. Is he right?
An EgyptAir plane disappeared from radar en route to Egypt from Paris.
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Only six percent of airline accidents in 2015 included fatalities. A security expert argues that a more accurate risk assessment of airline travel would take into account close calls.
Her Majesty drops the mic.
PA/Stefan Rousseau
The government has had to make many u-turns of late and that’s unlikely to change now.
PA/Niall Carson
The home secretary has announced that the threat of terrorism related to Northern Ireland is now highly likely in Britain.
Rouhani and Renzi meet in Rome.
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The most difficult aspect of trade in “post-sanctions” Tehran, is how to navigate the sanctions still in place.
Prepaid cellphones are just one of many technological tools used by criminals and terrorists.
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Throwaway phones are just one piece of the ever-widening technological arsenal of extremists and terror groups of all kinds.