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GLOSSARY OF EXTREMISM AND HATE

Islamic State-Sinai …

Islamic State-Sinai Province (also ISIS-Sinai Province and ISIS-Sinai) is an ISIS branch and active Salafi-jihadist terrorist group operating in Egypt. The group seeks to expand ISIS’s activities in the Sinai Peninsula. Since 2014, the group has carried... Read more

Groups / Movements Islamist

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Hamas

Harakat al-Muqawama al-Islamiyya (HAMAS or Hamas) is an Iran-backed Islamist terror group formed during the First Intifada in 1987. The group is avowed to the destruction of the State of Israel and aims to establish an... Read more

Groups / Movements Islamist

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ISIS

ISIS (also known as ISIL, Islamic State or IS, and Daesh in Arabic) is a Salafi-jihadist group that founded an unrecognized “caliphate,” a quasi-state in Iraq and Syria in 2014 capturing large swaths of territory in a... Read more

Groups / Movements Islamist

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Al Shabaab

Al Shabaab is an Al Qaeda-affiliated Islamist terrorist organization based in Somalia. Al Shabaab is a brutal terrorist group which controls large swathes of the country and frequently projects attacks into neighboring countries, including Kenya and Uganda... Read more

Groups / Movements Islamist

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Popular Front for th…

The Damascus-based Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-GC (PFLP-GC) splintered from the PFLP in 1968 due to differences between PFLP head George Habash and Ahmad Jibril, who founded the new group and was committed to armed... Read more

Groups / Movements Left Wing