Jihadists have long debated whether a centralized or decentralized organizational model is optimal. This debate extends also to terrorist attacks: Is it more effective when they are conceptualized and planned by a central organization, or are “lone...

In this national security podcast hosted by JJ Green, CEP Spokesperson Tara Maller discusses terrorism committed by women, what is driving the recruitment of women by ISIS and other extremist groups, and what's being done to counter it.

Military-oriented videos have been the bedrock of IS propaganda, but the group’s ability to govern once featured heavily as well — on average accounting for one-fifth of the media analyzed by Milton and a quarter of IS videos reviewed in separate...

CEP Spokesperson and Senior Policy Advisor Tara Maller was interviewed on Yahoo News on POTUS by host Olivier Knox, discussing the national security issues that were at the forefront in 2016.

The U.S. is taking aim at an Islamic State terror group operative thought to have played a key role in launching the terror attacks on both Paris and Brussels. On Tuesday, the State Department sanctioned Abdelilah Himich, a Moroccan-born Frenchman...

CEP Spokesperson and Senior Policy Advisor Tara Maller speaks with MSNBC's Thomas Roberts about the impact Russia might have on the 2016 election.

CEP Spokesperson Tara Maller discusses the fight for Mosul, Russian hacking and drones used by ISIS that killed two Kurdish soldiers in northern Iraq.

Western governments have criticised social media platforms including Facebook, YouTube and Twitter for being slow to stop the spread of terrorist material. But few critics have as much technical expertise as Hany Farid, a professor of computer...

The poisonous rhetoric of Anwar al-Awlaki, a smooth-talking American-born imam who taught Muslims in San Diego in the years leading up to the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, has become a constant factor in homegrown terror plots since his death five years...

In an op-ed, CEP CEO Ambassador Mark Wallace details the number of violent extremists who wre directly inspired by American-born imam turned al-Qaeda terror plotter Anwar al-Awlaki, even years after his death, due to the popularity of his videos on...