CEP Senior Director Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler interviewed regarding Islamist radicalization online and terrorism threat in Germany.

Following serious riots at a Kurdish demonstration in Dortmund, terrorism expert [CEP Senior Director] Hans-Jakob Schindler warns against importing the Syrian conflict to Germany. Schindler also fears an uncontrolled return of German IS fighters from...

Terrorism expert Hans-Jakob Schindler of the transatlantic think tank Counter Extremism Project says that the interim president relies on foreign jihadists to stabilize his rule and does not want to appear within the Islamist spectrum as someone who...

He helped build the group's operational capabilities and trained some of the hijackers who took part in the September 11, 2001 attacks against the United States, according to the Counter Extremism Project.

According to terrorism expert [CEP Senior Director] Hans-Jakob Schindler, Israel and Saudi Arabia have warned the Trump administration against rushing into air strikes against Iran. An attack at this point in time could backfire, as the regime is not...

“As a pure sanction, this would have relatively few consequences. But it would send a strong political signal,” says extremism expert and Middle East specialist Hans-Jakob Schindler, director of the Counter Extremism Project in Berlin. In recent...

Philanthropist Elliott Brody writes: Prior to acquiring the whiteprint, in 2024, I helped the Counter Extremism Project, a nonprofit organization, purchase a house next door to Auschwitz. Commandant Rudolf Hoss lived there from May 1940 to December...

As described by the Counter Extremism Project, the Muslim Brotherhood is a transnational Sunni Islamist movement, founded in Egypt in 1928, that seeks to implement sharia (Islamic law) under a global caliphate. The group has already been labeled a...

"It's at least theoretically conceivable that Iran could offer American companies access to its oil. The Iranian oil industry is dilapidated and urgently needs investment," Hans-Jakob Schindler, head of the Berlin-based think tank Counter Extremism...

According to sources, two figures have now emerged as frontrunners to be the head of the political bureau: Khalil Al-Hayya and Khaled Meshaal. Hayya, 65, a Gaza native and Hamas’s chief negotiator in ceasefire talks, has held senior roles since at...