Why is al-Qaeda quoting Muslim Brotherhood scholars on Gaza? It’s not a one-off. Despite its longstanding hostility toward the Brotherhood, al-Qaeda has cited IUMS fatwas calling for jihad and praised senior IUMS scholars. So what does this overlap tell us? 🎥 Watch our latest short-form video + read this piece produced by @wellesbien in partnership with @MEastUncovered: themiddleeastuncovered.com/c…

📑NEW REPORT CAIR has spent years building a path into America’s public schools. In 2026, it made that strategy explicit, expanding its “Unhostile Campus Campaign” into K-12 education. Our report “The Long Game” by @AsherNStern & David Collins shows how that access was built, and lays out a phenomenon that few seem to know about, but many more need to.  extremism.gwu.edu/long-game

Last month, a radicalized Omani pilot sought to plunge a FlyDubai jet into Tel Aviv airport. Are we headed back to an era of civil aviation terror? Was al Qaeda involved? We discuss on The Threat w/ two doctors:@hoffman_bruce and @Dr_SaraHarmouch tinyurl.com/yaj2bmxs

Inside Baseball Episode 8 part 2: Join us as we continue with the story of,the United States v. Jin. Hanjuan Jin, an employee at Motorola, who, in 2007, was stopped at O'Hare airport as she was about to board a flight to China on a one-way ticket. In her bags was found Motorola proprietary documents regarding a telecommunications system, along with classified Chinese Military documents.

Inside Baseball Episode 8 part 1: In February 2007, Hanjuan Jin, an employee at Motorola, was stopped at O'Hare airport as she was about to board a flight to China on a one-way ticket. In her bags was found Motorola proprietary documents regarding a telecommunications system, along with classified Chinese Military documents.  This is the story of United States v. Jin.

How has Hezbollah’s financial infrastructure evolved in Latin America? In @smallwars, our researchers Sergio Altuna (@wellesbien) & Leonel Caraciki examine the shift from traditional business and family networks to a more distributed ecosystem involving hawala, commercial enterprises, fintech & cryptocurrency. Their analysis highlights why tracing financial networks - not just individual actors - is key to understanding illicit finance in the Tri-Border Area. smallwarsjournal.com/2026/10…

Last week we hosted Dr. Omar Mohammed and Gen. David Petraeus for a book talk and signing of Mosul Eye: A Scholar’s Clandestine War Against ISIS. The discussion explored Dr. Mohammed’s clandestine documentation of life under ISIS in Mosul and his efforts to preserve the historical record and help save lives.

Today we launched our Senior Fellow Dr. Omar Mohammed’s new book “Mosul Eye: A Scholar's Clandestine War Against ISIS” with special guest Gen. (R) David H. Petraeus

Article written by our Director Lorenzo Vidino in The Patient Revolution Substack on "What Europe Gets About Islamism that America Doesn’t" thepatientrevolution.substac…

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To understand the Brotherhood’s European footprint, start with its structure. PoE Director Lorenzo Vidino & senior researcher @wellesbien authored the most comprehensive guide to its pan-European network—mapping the networks, institutions, and key actors. extremism.gwu.edu/muslim-bro…

BREAKING: The European Parliament adopts a resolution condemning “Islamist entryism” aimed at weakening democratic institutions, opposing the legitimization of such networks, and calling for Muslim Brotherhood-linked individuals and entities to be added to EU terrorist lists. eppgroup.eu/newsroom/eu-must…

Join us alongside @UsanasF for a virtual seminar, “Proxies and Networks: The Complicated Ecosystem of South Asian Jihadist Organizations,” on Oct. 14, 2026, at 10:00 AM ET / 7:30 PM IST. The panel will examine AQIS, ISIS-Khorasan, TTP, cooperation and competition among jihadist organizations, and the post-2021 security environment in Afghanistan. Featuring Ambassador Ashok Sajjanhar, @Dr_SaraHarmouch, Abhinav Pandya and Dipanjan Roy Chaudhury. 🎙️Moderated by Jeff Parsons. extremism.gwu.edu/proxies-an…

On this solemn anniversary of the October 7 attack, we must remember that this was not about "resistance" or "liberation," it was about pure terror.  Listen as Dr. @CochavElkayam, a scholar and human rights activist, documents her findings about the terror attack that day. civilc.org/team/dr-cochav-el…

On college campuses and in the halls of American power, an partnership between the far left and Islamists, a Red Green alliance, is gaining traction. This week on The Threat podcast, @FPJaySolomon and @HagarChemali discus with Dr. Craig Considine his new book, “When Marx Meets Islam”: tinyurl.com/3dbn646z

📄 New report - From Gaza to Global Jihad: Three Years After October 7 Drawing on TITAN data, our senior researcher @wellesbien examines how al-Qaeda moved from exploiting Gaza as grievance to selectively appropriating Oct. 7 and drawing lessons from the war. Full report available here👇 extremism.gwu.edu/gaza-globa…

لماذا تستشهد القاعدة بعلماء من جماعة الإخوان المسلمين بشأن غزة؟ ليست هذه حالةً منفردة. فعلى الرغم من عدائها الطويل لنهج الإخوان المسلمين، استشهدت القاعدة بفتاوى صادرة عن الاتحاد العالمي لعلماء المسلمين تدعو إلى الجهاد، كما أشادت بكبار علماء الاتحاد. فماذا يكشف لنا هذا التقاطع؟ 📷 شاهدوا أحدث فيديو قصير لنا، واقرؤوا هذه المقالة بقلم @wellesbien، بالشراكة مع @MEastUncovered themiddleeastuncovered.com/p…

📄 New report From Gaza to Global Jihad: Three Years After October 7 Drawing on TITAN data, our senior researcher @wellesbien examines how al-Qaeda moved from exploiting Gaza as grievance to selectively appropriating Oct. 7 and drawing lessons from the war. Full report available here👇 extremism.gwu.edu/gaza-globa…

Join us alongside @UsanasF for a virtual seminar, “Proxies and Networks: The Complicated Ecosystem of South Asian Jihadist Organizations,” on Oct. 14, 2026, at 10:00 AM ET / 7:30 PM IST. The panel will examine AQIS, ISIS-Khorasan, TTP, cooperation and competition among jihadist organizations, and the post-2021 security environment in Afghanistan. Featuring Ambassador Ashok Sajjanhar, @Dr_SaraHarmouch , Abhinav Pandya and Dipanjan Roy Chaudhury. 🎙️Moderated by Jeff Parsons. extremism.gwu.edu/proxies-an…

SUPER-UW promoted a June 2026 webinar with Hussein Mughniyeh, son of the Hezbollah commander behind the 1983 Beirut barracks bombing that killed 241 U.S. service members. The two hosts were implicated in the UW engineering building occupation. extremism.gwu.edu/super-uw