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Juli 11, 2025

CEP Senior Research Analyst Sofia Koller interviewed regarding ISIS, women and children in Syria, and returnees.

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Juli 10, 2025

The active clubs are part of a larger international far-right movement, focusing on strength training and martial arts. The concept has spread quickly and is now present in at least 20 countries with over 100 groups globally and in most US states...

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Juli 10, 2025

The Counter Extremism Project describes the Animal Liberation Front as "a far-left extremist group focused on animal rights" that was formed in the 1970s in the United Kingdom. It now operates in 40 countries and has "claimed responsibility for arson...

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Juli 9, 2025

In this week’s episode of “The Hunt with WTOP National Security Correspondent J.J. Green, Dr. Hans Jakob Schindler, the senior director at the Counter Extremism Project, said there are three major concerns in regards to the growing threat of global...

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Juli 7, 2025

CEP Senior Advisor Prof. Ian Acheson writes: Today’s terrorist threat is more diverse and unpredictable than in 2005. Our resilience against violent extremism is hollowed out by institutional timidity. We still face tactical, technical and...

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Juli 7, 2025

CEP Senior Advisor Prof. Ian Acheson writes: Bear in mind these dead, I can find no plainer words,’ wrote the Northern Irish poet John Hewitt reflecting on the Troubles’s terrible death toll. How we remember the victims of terrorism and articulate...

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Juli 5, 2025

The so-called activist clubs, in which a young close relative of a minister was active, have grown rapidly in Sweden. Alexander Ritzmann, senior advisor at the Counter Extremism Project in Berlin, has mapped the movement from its beginnings in the...

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Juli 2, 2025

Joshua Fisher-Birch, researcher and content review specialist for the Counter Extremism Project, is all about that Base, as in the international Neo-Nazi group he’s been tracking in the U.S. and on foreign battlefields.

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Juli 2, 2025

Terrorism and extremism expert Hans-Jakob Schindler from the Counter Extremism Project is observing Iran's move with concern: "The suspension of cooperation may strengthen Iran's negotiating position because concessions will now have to be made to...