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A man manipulates cables on a bank of internet data servers - source: Reuters
Articles & Testimony
Examining Extremism Research Takedowns Online
A data-driven look at how research into terrorism and extremism is often hindered by tech companies with ill-suited content filters.
Nov 6, 2023
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  • Aaron Y. Zelin
IDF solders operating inside Gaza in October 2023 - source: Government of Israel
Articles & Testimony
The End of Israel’s Gaza Illusions
The country must come to terms with the fact that this war is deeply different from those it has fought in recent decades, and commit unwaveringly to transforming its security approach.
Nov 3, 2023
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  • Assaf Orion
Maps & Graphics
Brief Analysis
Hezbollah’s Escalation Ladder
In his highly anticipated first speech since the Hamas massacre, Secretary-General Nasrallah can be expected to offer plenty of bluster and a possible step up the escalation ladder, but his group has an interest in avoiding all-out war.
Nov 2, 2023
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  • Matthew Levitt
Akram
Maps & Graphics
Brief Analysis
Potential Escalation in Iraq (Part 2): Asaib and Nujaba
Asaib Ahl al-Haq, Harakat Hezbollah al-Nujaba, and their facade group partners may soon step up their attacks amid the Hamas-Israel war, albeit within limits set by Iran.
Nov 1, 2023
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  • Hamdi Malik
  • Crispin Smith
  • Ameer al-Kaabi
  • Michael Knights
◆ Militia Spotlight
Iraq escalation
Maps & Graphics
Brief Analysis
Potential Escalation in Iraq (Part 1): Khamenei and Badr
Iraqi "resistance" elements are becoming more bellicose in their rhetoric against the American presence, signaling a new level of escalation against U.S. troops as part of their efforts to support Hamas in the Gaza war.
Nov 1, 2023
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  • Hamdi Malik
  • Michael Knights
  • Crispin Smith
  • Ameer al-Kaabi
◆ Militia Spotlight
Arab tribes in Syria
Maps & Graphics
Brief Analysis
Profile: Liwa al-Baqir
This Syrian militia based in Aleppo and Deir al-Zour has developed a uniquely close relationship with Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and the Assad regime.
Nov 1, 2023
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  • Abdullah Hayek
  • Michael Knights
◆ Militia Spotlight: Profiles
Sons of Jazeera and Euphrates Movement
Maps & Graphics
Brief Analysis
Profile: The Sons of Jazira and Euphrates Movement
This Ougaidat tribal militia has undertaken attacks on multiple Syrian Kurdish and U.S. sites, with support from Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and the Assad regime.
Oct 31, 2023
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  • Abdullah Hayek
◆ Militia Spotlight: Profiles
A memorial in Tel Aviv to the victims of the OCtober 7 Hamas terror attacks - source: Reuters
Articles & Testimony
Hamas vs. Israel: The Limits of Analogy
What Hamas unleashed on October 7 was so jarring that it is only natural to seek the comfort of historical examples to put Israel’s response in some digestible context.
Oct 30, 2023
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  • Robert Satloff
Brief Analysis
Arab Critique and Condemnation of Hamas Before October 7, 2023
For years, Hamas was lambasted by leading Arab voices as a terrorist group that worked against Palestinian interests. And then October 7 happened.
Oct 30, 2023
◆ Tracking International Reactions to the Hamas-Israel War
Sons of Jazeera
Maps & Graphics
Brief Analysis
Anti-U.S. Attacks Linked to the Sons of Jazira and Euphrates Movement
The "Jazira" brand has begun claiming, through very transparent communiques, that it is undertaking rocket attacks on U.S. bases in Syria.
Oct 27, 2023
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  • Hamdi Malik
  • Michael Knights
◆ Militia Spotlight
Articles & Testimony
I Might Have Once Favored a Cease-Fire with Hamas, but Not Now
A perceived victory by the group will validate its ideology of rejection, give momentum to Iran and its collaborators, and foreclose the possibility of peace with Israel.
Oct 27, 2023
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  • Dennis Ross
Palestinians view an unexploded Israeli shell in Gaza
Articles & Testimony
The Collapse of Israel’s Hamas “Conceptzia”
The belief that Hamas would abandon ideology for economic gain led to disastrous consequences.
Oct 27, 2023
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  • David Makovsky
Palestinians throw stones near the West Bank border with Israel.
Brief Analysis
A Second Palestinian Front:
Relative Quiet, Restlessness, and Waiting
Palestinian residents of the West Bank and East Jerusalem, along with Arab Israelis, have not yet taken up Hamas’s call to join the fight, but amid increasing tensions, all sides must work diligently to preserve the fragile calm.
Oct 26, 2023
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  • Neomi Neumann
◆ Tracking International Reactions to the Hamas-Israel War
Articles & Testimony
Combating Hamas's Networks of Illicit Finance and Terrorism
A former Treasury Department official testifies on how this longstanding policy imperative should be approached at a time when terrorist groups like Hamas are bringing the Middle East to the brink of regional war.
Oct 26, 2023
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  • Matthew Levitt
Articles & Testimony
How America and Its Allies Can Stop Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iran from Evading Sanctions and Financing Terror
An in-depth look at Hamas's numerous means of financing terrorist operations like the October 7 assault on Israel, including recommendations for shutting off this flow of illicit funding.
Oct 25, 2023
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  • Matthew Levitt
Brief Analysis
Putting the Hamas Massacre, and Hamas Denials, in Context
The group’s own documentation of atrocities belies its claims that it did not target civilians.
Oct 25, 2023
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  • Matthew Levitt
  • Delaney Soliday
◆ Tracking International Reactions to the Hamas-Israel War
AWH threat against U.S. bases in Kuwait and the UAE, October 24, 2023
Maps & Graphics
Brief Analysis
Kataib Hezbollah's Facade Group Threatens Gulf States Again
An Iran-aligned group that presaged two previous drone attacks on Gulf cities has issued a new threat against U.S. targets in Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates.
Oct 24, 2023
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  • Michael Knights
◆ Militia Spotlight
Brief Analysis
Echoes of 1983 Beirut Bombings in Current Iranian Proxy Escalation
As Israel prepares to dislodge Hamas from Gaza, Iran and its proxies are extending their threats to the United States, recalling the Beirut bombings that Hezbollah carried out forty years ago at Tehran’s behest.
Oct 23, 2023
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  • Matthew Levitt
A Marine Corps training jet on board the USS Gerald Ford, CVN-78 - source: Department of Defense
Articles & Testimony
Will Hezbollah Target American Assets Amid Israel’s War on Gaza?
Iranian proxies are deliberately escalating against American forces in the region as a warning against continued support for Israel’s war, but Hezbollah attacks would take the crisis to a different level.
Oct 23, 2023
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  • David Schenker
Articles & Testimony
The Mission Ahead for Israel
Although the immediate goal is to destroy Hamas’s terrorist regime in Gaza, there is no viable alternative to a political solution in the longer term.
Oct 21, 2023
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  • Zohar Palti
  • Neomi Neumann

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