"Media jihad" refers to an ISIS innovation in the Islamist terrorist sphere heavily emphasizing online media and appealing propaganda as a means of recruiting foreign fighters and spreading its message. To this end, ISIS recruiters often emphasize... Read more

The Garland, Texas terrorist plot, also known as the "Draw Mohammed Art Contest" plot, refers to a May 3, 2015 incident in which two men — Elton Simpson and Nadir Soofi — entered the Curtis Culwell Center... Read more

Nikolas Cruz is the perpetrator of the Parkland, Florida shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, where he was a former student. He killed 17 people and wounded 17 others. Following the shooting it was revealed that... Read more

Nutella and kittens was among ISIS's more inventive and disturbing media tactics. In 2015, the group paired calls to join the Islamic State with innocuous images that were popular on the internet, including pictures of kittens or... Read more

On April 19, 1995, anti-government extremist Timothy McVeigh detonated a truck bomb in front of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma to retaliate against the federal government for its handling of the Branch Davidian standoff... Read more

The June 2016 shooting spree at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, by Omar Mateen—who killed 49 people and wounded 53 more—dwarfed in its lethality all other extremist-related murders in the decade. Mateen, who claimed his attack... Read more

"Paper terrorism" is a term given to a range of tactics developed by the sovereign citizen movement to use against their perceived enemies. These tactics typically involve the filing of bogus legal documents or the misuse of... Read more

The Parkland shooting refers to a deadly February 14, 2018 shooting spree at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, perpetrated by Nikolas Cruz. 17 people and 17 others were injured during the shooting. Cruz was... Read more

Patrick Crusius is a white supremacist who allegedly killed 23 people and injured 23 others in the El Paso, Texas Walmart shooting in 2019, saying it was "a response to the Hispanic invasion of Texas." The shooting... Read more