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August 2016

The Huffington Post: Extra Armed Police And How The Danger From Islamist Extremists Compares To Historical Terror Threats
Hindustan Times: The national affliction of buying head in sand has to end to fortify India against terror attacks
Quartz: ISIL demands many things of its top commanders, but good Arabic isn't one of them
Computerworld: How to keep Facebook, Twitter from being terrorists’ hunting grounds
NFPA Journal – Tunnel Trouble
The Cipher Brief: The Private Sector Role in Countering Violent Extremism

July 2016

The Los Angeles Times: We adjust for population with murder rates. Why not for mass shootings?
The Guardian: The Observer view on Pope Francis’s comments on a world at war
The Guardian: Figures put Europe’s summer of violence in context
Center for Strategic and International Studies: The Uncertain Trends and metrics of Terrorism in 2016
The Washington Post: There’s only one way to ‘Make America Safe Again’
Sinclair Broadcast Group: Experts say ISIS is using a new weapon: Its own currency
The Independent: The UK is pursuing French-style policies on extremism – but it may lead to more frequent terror attacks
Sinclair Broadcast Group: This is a war we simply have to win
Stanford News: Deadly truck attack on French Riviera a new twist on an old terror tactic, experts say
Homeland Security News Wire: Updated 2015 Global Terrorism Database release
The Washington Post: U.S. counterterrorism is mired in turf wars. We could learn a lot from the U.K.
The Wall Street Journal: What are ‘sovereign citizens’? Baton Rouge shooter joined anti-government group, changed name
FiveThirtyEight: 2016 could be the deadliest year for terror attacks targeting police since 1973
Bloomberg news: Terror truck to ‘mow down’ enemies seen in al-Qaida guide
The Irish Times: Nice attacks: terrorists often fail to conform to any pattern
NPR: How a Danish Town Helped Young Muslims Turn Away from ISIS
The Washington Post: The mile-long site where a truck mowed down dozens in Nice, France
The Atlantic: Is Terrorism Getting Worse?
Vocativ: ISIS’s brutality in videos is “terrorist clickbait”
FiveThirtyEight: Terrorist attacks in the U.S. increasingly take the form of mass shootings
The Washington Post: The American foreign policy establishment is getting more comfortable with numbers
The Atlantic: A Third of All Terrorism Deaths Occur in Just One Country
The Cipher Brief: Another Tool in the Arsenal
New American Media: More Afraid of a Drive-By Than ISIS
The Times Argus (Vermont): Time of Terror
Scripps: News media coverage of terrorism exaggerates true threat to Americans
CNN Online: ISIS Leaders Involved in Plotting Airport Terror Attacks
USA Today: When terrorism’s greatest threat isn’t the terrorist

June 2016

FiveThirtyEight Politics: Global Terrorism Declined Last Year – But Not in the West
Sinclair Broadcast Group: Americans don’t see the broader patter of terror attacks
Public Radio International: These three charts will help you understand Turkey’s recent terrorist attacks
Newsweek: Where does the Orlando Massacre fit into a list of the world’s terrorist attacks?
CNN: Erin Burnett Out Front
Scripps: Terrorism in Turkey
The Atlantic: Turkey’s Brutal Year
Scripps: Terrorism frequently strikes Turkey
Sinclair Broadcast Group: Expert on first-generation U.S. terrorists
Los Angeles Times: Not a day in April passed without a terror attack
Business Insider: A psychologist explains why the Orlando terror attack isn’t likely to change anyone’s opinion about gun control
Ethiopian Review: Ethiopia-Eritrea Wargames of Mass Distraction?
New York Times: What in the World: How many Die In A Typical Terror Attack? Fewer Than You Think
Boston Globe: Making sense of Orlando and Birstall
Salon: Why an armed citizenry isn’t the best defense against state tyranny
National Memo: Are All Nazis Terrorists?