Following is the September 2023 installment of “ISIS Redux: The Central Syria Insurgency,” a monthly chronicle of attacks by the terrorist group ISIS in central Syria. A review of developments throughout 2022 and 2021 can be found here and here . The...
With the territorial defeat of ISIS in Syria and Iraq in 2019, the online propaganda efforts of its supporters in the West have become even more central to the group’s media strategy. The group’s propaganda for an international audience is no longer...
In June 2023, CEP published a study that outlines and analyzes the financial strategies and activities of key right-wing extremist (RWE) organizations and actors in the United Kingdom and in Germany. The United Kingdom and Germany see violent right...
In March 2023, CEP published a study demonstrating that several violence-oriented right-wing extremist (VRWE) individuals and groups in Europe and the U.S. engage in or maintain ties with organized crime (OC). Many of the identified cases have a...
The women who left Germany to join ISIS and returned are standing trial. This CEP blog series follows the trials of some of these female returnees, including Monika K. ( read here ) , Nadine K. ( here and here ), Marcia M. ( here ), and Jennifer W. (...
On September 8, X Safety (formerly Twitter Safety) wrote in a blog they were “committed to combating hatred, prejudice and intolerance,” outlining their ongoing plan for fighting antisemitism on the platform. While the stated policies and practices...
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.