Smithsonian under secretary urges preserving culture during crisis
Richard Kurin, the Smithsonian Institution’s under secretary for history, art and culture, gave a lecture Monday about culture preservation after the destruction of several historical monuments in...
View ArticleGW releases first study of Americans arrested for ISIS actions
GW’s program on extremism released a study examining why Americans join the Islamic State Tuesday, the first comprehensive study of its kind. The report, “ISIS in America: From Retweets to Raqqa,”...
View ArticleProgram on extremism releases report on terror attacks targeting West
GW’s program on extremism found ISIS was involved in the majority of jihadist-motivated terrorist attacks in North America and Europe over the last three years, according to a new report from the...
View ArticleFormer WMATA officer convicted of trying to aid ISIS
A former police officer for D.C.’s transit agency was found guilty Monday of obstruction of justice and attempting to provide material support to ISIS, the Washington Post reported. Nicholas Young, who...
View ArticleResearchers to archive ISIS documents with The New York Times
GW’s Program on Extremism is partnering with The New York Times to catalog thousands of internal documents from the Islamic State group, according to a Times release Monday. GW researchers will analyze...
View ArticleProgram on Extremism to launch virtual archive of ISIS documents
Researchers will launch a virtual public archive of internal ISIS files with translations and analysis from staff at the Program on Extremism on Monday, according to a release. A team of New York Times...
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