CEP in the News

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August 19, 2020

"While most international attention has been focused on the “post-caliphate” Islamic State insurgencies in northeast Syria and Iraq, ISIS has steadily carried out an ever-expanding insurgency against the Syrian regime and its allies in central Syria...

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August 14, 2020

"According to the Counter Extremism Project, a nonprofit international policy organization, al-Faisal was born Trevor William Forrest in Jamaica but converted to Islam and changed his name while living in Saudi Arabia as a teenager. He eventually...

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August 12, 2020

CEP Senior Director Dr. Hans-Jakbo Schindler speaks on WTOP's The Hunt about domestic terrorism on the rise in the U.S. and the connection to Europe. The threat has long been transatlantic and intra-European, but the current situation

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August 12, 2020

"'Ghaani has a history of ties in Afghanistan dating back to the 1980s when he helped arm and support Shiite communities there on behalf of Iran,' said Josh Lipowsky, senior research analyst at the Counter Extremism Project (C.E.P.). 'Ghaani's...

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August 12, 2020

"According to the Counter Extremism Project (CEP): 'A 2015 U.K. government investigation concluded that the Brotherhood has 'promoted a radical, transformative politics, at odds with a millennium of Islamic jurisprudence and statecraft....' In line...

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August 12, 2020

"In July, the group carried out at least 23 attacks in Syria alone, according to data compiled by the Counter Extremism Project. Those attacks were aimed mostly at forces loyal to Syrian dictator Bashar Assad, who for years has waged a simultaneous...

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August 5, 2020

"'At the moment, it appears that NSO is very much a new generation of AWD, as the new group is led by AWD leadership that was not arrested,' said Joshua Fisher-Birch, a research analyst at the Counter Extremism Project, a U.S.-based terrorism...

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August 4, 2020

CEP Senior Director Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler spoke on BBC Newshour about the complicated task of repatriating children of ISIS members, some of whose parents are dead and others whose mothers are considered a security risk. According to Dr. Schindler...

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August 3, 2020

CEP Advisor Liam Duffy writes: "Despite the ongoing torment, it is the lack of justice that has left the bitterest taste for many Yazidis. 40,000 foreigners joined Islamic State. Some 6,000 from Western Europe and several hundred more from North...

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August 1, 2020

"'If Germany … will continue to take part in the U.N. or NATO missions that involve actual fighting, you need a special forces unit,' Hans-Jakob Schindler, senior director of the Counter Extremism Project in Berlin, told VOA. 'Disbanding the whole...

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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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