One of the greatest challenges of our time, terrorism has grown as a security threat for countries all over the world. Pulitzer Center stories tagged with “Terrorism” feature reporting on international terrorist organizations such as ISIS, al-Qaeda, al-Shabaab, Hamas and Hezbollah and the impact of terrorism of its victims. Use the Pulitzer Center Lesson Builder to find and create lesson plans on terrorism.
Walikale is notorious, even within eastern Congo. Villagers sleep in the bush for security and return to the village during the day to impersonate normal lives.
Why is the Kremlin-imposed leader of this republic sounding so much like the militants he's meant to be cracking down on?
In Ingushetia, people have reason to fear Russia's shadowy security forces as much or more than the Islamist militants. Indeed, it has become one of the most unstable spots in the North Caucasus.
What appears to be a religious war or an independence struggle in the Caucasus is, in reality, deep-seated ethinic conflict and hatred.
A new level of viciousness by Islamist insurgents pervades Russia's bloody southern republics in the North Caucasus.
On the first day of his military commission trial in Guantanamo Bay, alleged al Qaeda terrorist Noor Uthman Muhammed pleads guilty to avoid life imprisonment.
Terrorist cells, rebel groups, and smuggling gangs have exploited Mali’s vast northern desert for nearly a decade. The most infamous is led by Mokhtar Belmokhtar.
Daniel Brook wins the prestigious Writing Award in the Winterhouse Awards for Design Writing & Criticism for his Pulitzer Center reporting on "The Architect of 9/11".
As a journalist in the North Caucasus refusing censorship, Yuri Bagrov was “treated like an enemy” and made an illegal immigrant in his homeland. Now, he is trying to survive as a refugee in the U.S.
Despite all of the dangers, Magomed Evloyev refused to shut down his website on the grounds that it was the only uncensored source of public information in his homeland, Ingushetia.
Zurab Markhiev believes that in the Caucasus a journalist must also be a human rights defender since censorship makes crime easy. This belief exiled him to Europe, where he is forced to hide.
Independent journalists in the North Caucasus often find that reporting is a life-threatening pursuit. Many have been forced to flee Russia and seek asylum elsewhere, while others have been murdered for their work.
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