Militias

The warrant authorizing the FBI search at Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence pointed to a potential violation of the Espionage Act.

The congresswoman decried the agency for seemingly listing a U.S. Capitol riot shooting victim as someone considered a "martyr" by militia violent extremists.

The Volunteers for the Defense of the Fatherland is seen as a stop-gap measure to halt a spreading conflict.

A man accused of planning to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer allegedly said he'd be "mounting a machine gun" to a truck to combat her security detail.

Domestic violent extremists "adhering to a range of ideologies will likely continue to plot and encourage physical attacks against electrical infrastructure," according to a DHS report obtained by Newsweek.

A total of 17 members of far-right militia group are accused of conspiring to violently stop the certification of the 2020 Election result.

Several groups which Facebook considers "dangerous" directly reference the former president in their names.

"I believe it is disgusting to say that there is extremism and that we need to root out extremists inside our military, inside our veterans," Cawthorn said.

"It is time for the Republican Party to denounce militia-ism," the GOP lawmaker urged.

"The United States took necessary, appropriate and deliberate action designed to limit the risk of escalation—but also to send a clear and unambiguous deterrent message," the Pentagon said.

On the day before the deadly riots, Stone gave a speech to Trump supporters protesting in D.C., calling it "a historic occasion, because we're mad as hell and we aren't going to take it."

One of the men indicted on federal charges allegedly messaged his co-defendants about desiring to "be on the front steps and be one of the first ones to breach the doors" of the Capitol.

The state's lieutenant governor has links to far-right militia members. The increase in state militia presence could lead to a rise in extremist violence, one expert says.

Steven Carrillo is alleged to have written extremist phrases on the hood of his car in his own blood before launching the deadly attack.

The Oath Keepers extremist militia believes that a global cabal is plotting to strip Americans of their rights.

A Republican proposal to block potential new federal gun laws from applying in South Carolina moved forward on Tuesday, one day after a deadly mass shooting in Boulder, Colorado left 10 people dead.

Local militias were spurred into action by the "rhetoric of the President, his congressional supporters, and the right-wing media," according to lawyers for Jessica Watkins.

Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin are reported to be among the states with the highest risk, according to ACLED.

"Words matter," Gretchen Whitmer tweeted on Friday.

"Hate groups heard the president's words not as a rebuke but as a rallying cry, as a call to action," Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer said Thursday, after 13 men associated with far-right militia groups were arrested for their part in an alleged plot to kidnap her.

"Facebook just banned our page and banned all admins from our gaming group. This is what censorship in the U.S. looks like!" the Free States Militia gaming group tweeted after the removal.

"Last night shows the threat of these 'militias' is a clear and present danger to those who protest," said leaders from the National Urban League and its Wisconsin affiliates on Wednesday.

The president campaigned on a vow to bring American troops home, but his standoff with Iran has seen thousands more soldiers deployed to the Middle East.

The International Institute for Strategic Studies said Tehran has established a regional network of some 200,000 fighters.

Turkey wants to clear Kurdish armed forces away from its southern border in "Operation Peace Spring."

Women, men, and children held in nightmarish detention centers in Libya face an even greater risk to life and limb as rival factions escalate their fight for the Libyan capital of Tripoli.

Special Representative for Iran Brian Hook said Tehran was responsible for 17 percent of all U.S. service personnel deaths between 2003 and 2011.

The move follows reports that Tehran has transferred ballistic missiles to Shiite fighters in Iraq.

After three years of fighting ISIS, Iraq emerged divided, with a political class dominated by Iranian interests and a countryside awash with militias.

They want to stop the Muslim takeover of Europe.