In February 2015, Shamima Begum, Kadiza Sultana, and Amira Abase—aged between 15 and 16—traveled from Bethnal Green (East London) to Syria to join ISIS, following the same route taken three months earlier by their friend, Sharmeena Begum. While the...
On 27 December 2025, multiple reports claimed that Denis Kapustin, a.k.a. Denis Nikitin or White Rex, had been killed in action in Ukraine. Kapustin is the commander of the Russian Volunteer Corps (RVC), which fights on Ukraine’s side against Russia...
This is the fifth installment in a new series analysing the threat environment in the Sahel based on the propaganda output by Jama'a Nusrat ul-Islam wa al-Muslimin (JNIM), the Islamic State–West Africa Province (ISWAP), and the Islamic State–Sahel...
This is the fourth installment in a new series analysing the threat environment in the Sahel based on the propaganda output by Jama'a Nusrat ul-Islam wa al-Muslimin (JNIM), the Islamic State–West Africa Province (ISWAP), and the Islamic State–Sahel...
This is the first entry in a two-part blog series discussing the evolution of Islamic State content and dissemination strategies since October 7, 2023.
More than a decade into the Islamist insurgency across the Sahel, terror groups—such as the al-Qaeda aligned Jama’at Nusrat al Islam wal Muslimeen (JNIM) and Islamic State in the Sahel (IS Sahel)—remain consistent in their operations and tactics...
The Counter Extremism Project Presents
Marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Counter Extremism Project's ARCHER at House 88 presents a landmark concert of music composed in ghettos and death camps, performed in defiance of resurgent antisemitism. Curated with world renowned composer, conductor, and musicologist Francesco Lotoro, the program restores classical, folk, and popular works, many written on scraps of paper or recalled from memory, to public consciousness. Featuring world and U.S. premieres from Lotoro's archive, this concert honors a repertoire that endured against unimaginable evil.