CEP in the News

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April 21, 2021

"In one operation last year Syrian government troops and Russian military contractors attempted to clear Islamic State from an oasis in central Syria after a series of attacks on a nearby town. Overwhelmed by Islamic State fighters in the area, the...

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April 20, 2021

"Researchers from the Counter Extremism Project discovered content on Instagram from the group. 'CEP researchers located several pieces of neo-Nazi and white supremacist content on Instagram,' it said."

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April 19, 2021

"Joshua Fisher-Birch, a researcher at the Counter Extremism Project, told VICE World News that, despite the mocking website, Pax Aryana is no joke. He said the collective is part of 'the Terrorgram propaganda community on the communications app...

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April 19, 2021

"Tribert Rujugiro Ayabatwa unequivocally refutes the allegations leveled against him by the Counter Extremism Project (CEP). The slanderous assertions prominently feature in the CEP Report authored by Sir Ivor Roberts titled 'An Unholy Alliance...

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April 16, 2021

"As East Africa struggles to recover from the ravages of the Covid-19 pandemic, the region is also fighting extremism, crime and corruption. In this mix is illicit trade that is increasingly rising as the principal financier of extremism, criminal...

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April 15, 2021

"A new report on East Africa’s war against extremism, crime, corruption and related illicit trade has pinned Rwandan dissident Tribert Ayabatwa Rujugiro on illicit trade and terrorism financing. The report obtained Thursday from the Counter Extremism...

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April 15, 2021

"A new report on East Africa’s war against extremism, crime, corruption and related illicit trade has pinned Rwandan dissident Tribert Ayabatwa Rujugiro on illicit trade and terrorism financing. The report obtained Thursday from the Counter Extremism...

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April 15, 2021

"The report, released this month by Counter Extremism Project, entitled, ‘An Unholy Alliance: Links between Extremism and Illicit Trade in East Africa’ says that regional stability is increasingly threatened by the continued existence of illicit...

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April 14, 2021

"Kacper Rekawek, a Slovakia-based researcher at the nonprofit Counter Extremism Project, said Slotkin’s list is the type of list someone searching for far-right extremist groups on Google might draw up. 'The effort of Rep. Slotkin is commendable...

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April 14, 2021

CEP Senior Director Hans-Jakob Schindler and CEP Senior Advisor Alexander Ritzmann write: "Since 2014, a new leaderless, transnational, apocalyptic-minded, violence-oriented right-wing extremist and terrorist movement (GRXT) has emerged, which is...

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Extremists: Their Words. Their Actions.

Fact:

On April 3, 2017, the day Vladimir Putin was due to visit the city, a suicide bombing was carried out in the St. Petersburg metro, killing 15 people and injuring 64. An al-Qaeda affiliate, Imam Shamil Battalion, claimed responsibility. 

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