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Meet Tam Hussein, Investigative Journalist & Author and a member of the Remarks OPV Board of Advisers.
Tam Hussein is a British investigative journalist, author, and Associate Editor at New Lines Magazine. His reporting focuses on jihadist networks, foreign fighters, and conflicts across the Middle East and North Africa. Recognized by the Royal Television Society and nominated for the Orwell Prize for Journalism, he is also the author of three books: To The Mountains: My Life in Jihad, Travels of Ibn Fudayl, and The Darkness Inside.
His work brings an investigative perspective to Remarks, strengthening our understanding of the individuals, networks, and regional dynamics driving extremism, armed conflict, and political violence.
Learn more about Tam Hussein:
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JORDAN - KARAK CHURCH ATTACK
Seven killed, 34 injured. Remarks OPV examines what happened, the implications for Jordan’s security and wider extremist activity in Iraq and Syria.
No operational connection has been established.
#politicalviolence #karak #churchnews
Saudi Arabia ranked second on REMARKS OPV’s daily Political Violence Index, reaching that position for the first time in our recorded monitoring history.
The ranking followed the recorded attack on Riyadh’s King Khalid International Airport, with 12 reported killed and 309 wounded, temporary airport closure and flight diversions.
REMARKS OPV recorded seven airport-related incidents during 5-11 October, compared with two Saudi incidents the previous week, a 250% increase in recorded incident volume.
Infrastructure & Services, particularly aviation, was the dominant directly affected sector, with implications for passenger safety, personnel movement, and business continuity.
Additional concerns include warnings to international airlines, threats to Saudi oil-sector workers, retaliatory military activity and signals of possible wider foreign involvement.
Saudi Arabia’s calculated 90-day Country Outlook is Critical (80/100), an analytical outlook score, not an attack probability.
Ranking context: second daily (10 October), fourth weekly, and ninth on the default rolling index. The daily ranking reflects acute escalation, not overall global risk standing.
Near-term assessment: Aviation disruption remains the primary planning concern. Energy infrastructure risks and wider military escalation warrant monitoring but remain scenarios, not confirmed outcomes.
Organizations with Saudi exposure should verify travel conditions, review continuity plans, and distinguish recorded impacts from threats and claims.
#saudi #politicalviolence #houthi
The threat in Yemen is defined by how three operational theatres interact:
1-Yemen Battlefield: Territorial changes driving operational positioning
2-Bab al-Mandeb: Geographic leverage on critical shipping corridors
3-Saudi Strategic Depth: Missile & UAV reach widening toward capital & energy targets
Behind this escalation is a dedicated network structure led by Abdul-Malik al-Houthi and underpinned by external support lines, financial nodes, and procurement channels.
At REMARKS OPV, we don't just report headline news. We map actor networks, capabilities, and escalation indicators so risk teams see the pattern before it becomes obvious.
#Geopolitics #MaritimeSecurity #ThreatIntelligence #Houthi #OSINT
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Meet Dr. Andrew McGregor, Counter-Insurgency Scholar and a member of the Remarks OPV Board of Advisers.
Dr. McGregor holds a PhD in Near and Middle Eastern Studies and formerly served as Managing Director of the Global Terrorism Analysis program at the Jamestown Foundation. His expertise spans counter-insurgency, Islamist extremism, security studies, Africa, the Islamic world, and regional analysis.
His work brings a comparative security perspective to Remarks, strengthening our ability to place armed actors and individual incidents within the broader dynamics that shape insurgency and political violence.
Learn more about Dr. Andrew McGregor:
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The Houthi campaign is not simply intensifying. It is compressing in time.
REMARKS OPV recorded 5 direct incidents in July, 13 in August, and 15 during the first 19 days of September 2026.
The significance is not only the increase in activity. It is the shrinking interval between incidents. Once the partial September period is accounted for, the daily incident tempo is roughly five times July's pace.
The graphic captures both dimensions: rising incident volume above, and the accelerating operating rhythm below.
This is campaign compression: pressure building not only through more activity, but through activity occurring increasingly close together.
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#houthi #ansarallah #mena #news
Meet Ahmad Abazeid, Syrian Affairs & Armed Factions Expert and a member of the Remarks OPV Board of Advisors.
A Syrian researcher specializing in Syrian affairs, armed movements, and jihadist movements, Ahmad’s work has examined the Syrian revolution and developments in southern Syria, drawing on sustained engagement with one of the region’s most complex conflict environments.
At Remarks, his expertise strengthens the contextual understanding behind our monitoring and analysis of armed actors, conflict dynamics, and political violence in Syria.
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Settler violence is not just a sequence of incidents. The value lies in seeing the pattern behind them.
We are launching the Remarks OPV Settler Violence Tracker, a standalone intelligence product built to track, structure and analyse settler violence across the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
The Tracker brings together Key Figures, an interactive map, a detailed Incident Explorer, and the Settler Incident Activity Index, a rolling 30-day measure of activity. Together, these tools make it easier to follow incidents, understand where they are happening, identify the actors involved, and see how patterns develop over time.
Rather than treating each event in isolation, the Tracker is designed to help researchers, analysts, journalists, organisations and decision-makers understand how individual incidents connect to wider patterns across geography and time.
Actuality. Metrics. Analysis.
Map the place. Read the pattern.
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#settlerviolence #politicalviolence
Meet Mairbek VATCHAGAEV, North Caucasus Historian and a member of the Remarks OPV Board of Advisers.
A Chechen historian and political analyst, Dr. Vatchagaev has written extensively on Chechnya and the wider North Caucasus, including the region’s political development, conflict dynamics, and the history of Islam and Sufism. His work brings deep historical context to a region where local political and religious dynamics continue to intersect with broader questions of Russian and Eurasian security.
For Remarks OPV, that expertise helps place contemporary political violence within the deeper histories, identities, and political forces that shape it.
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Meet Dr. Muhammad Abu Rumman, an extremism scholar and a member of the Remarks OPV Board of Advisers.
A political science professor and former Jordanian Minister of Culture and Minister of Youth, Dr. Abu Rumman has written extensively on extremism, terrorism, Salafism, Islamic movements, and political reform in the Arab world. His work brings together academic research with direct experience in public policy.
For Remarks OPV, expertise of this kind adds an important dimension to understanding political violence, connecting individual incidents with the political, ideological, institutional, and social environments in which they emerge.
Learn more about Dr. Abu Rumman and the Remarks OPV Board of Advisers:
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Meet GlenHoward, Eurasian Security Expert and a member of the Remarks OPV Board of Advisers.
President and Chairman of The Saratoga Foundation and former President of The Jamestown Foundation, Glen brings two decades of experience leading research on Russia and Eurasia, Black Sea geopolitics, regional conflict, and military strategy.
For Remarks OPV, expertise of this kind adds an important strategic dimension to our work, helping place political violence and security developments within the wider regional environments in which they occur.
Learn more about Glen and the Remarks OPV Board of Advisors:
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Between 8 January and 18 August 2026, Remarks OPV verified and structured 1,773 political violence incidents across 65 countries, documenting at least 8,943 fatalities and 16,362 people wounded in our monitored dataset.
Political violence as data, not just headlines.
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Meet Dr. Ahmad Jamil Azem, Conflict Management Expert and member of the Remarks OPV Board of Advisers.
His expertise spans international relations, Arab politics, conflict management, the Arab-Israeli conflict, and regional dynamics.
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Meet Our Advisers | Richard Barrett CMG, OBE
We are pleased to introduce Richard Barrett @rmdbarrett CMG, OBE, Counter-Terrorism Strategist, and a member of the Remarks OPV Board of Advisers.
Richard is a former Director of Counter-Terrorism at MI6 and former head of the UN Al-Qaeda/Taliban Monitoring Team.
Learn more about Richard and the Remarks Board of Advisers:
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Drones are becoming a defining feature of political violence.
The use of drones or unmanned systems across multiple conflicts rose from 18.5% in February to 54.4% in August 2026.
Of 1,773 incidents tracked by Remarks OPV, 780 involved drones.
Remarks OPV explains it all
#ukraine #russia #drones #palestine #sudan #lebanon #politicalviolence
إطلاق النار في مسجد سان دييغو: هجوم استهدف مجتمعًا مسلمًا ويثير مخاوف متزايدة بشأن جرائم الكراهية، وأمن المساجد، وحماية المؤسسات الدينية للأقليات في الولايات المتحدة
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• #هجوم_مسجد
• #هجوم_مسجد_سان_دييغو
• #مسجد_سان_دييغو
• #المركز_الإسلامي
San Diego Mosque Shooting: A targeted attack on a Muslim community raises urgent concerns over hate-crime violence, mosque security, and the protection of religious minority spaces in the United States.
#SanDiegoMosque
#MosqueShooting
#SanDiegoShooting
#SanDiego
#HateCrime
