A Twin Cities man, Mohamed Abdullahi Hassan, who joined the terrorist group al-Shabab in Somalia seven years ago, has surrendered to authorities in the African country, the State Department said Monday. The Counter Extremism Project’s David Ibsen has...

FBI Director James Comey today confirmed that the probe into the massacre in San Bernardino is now “a federal terrorism investigation” as a result of evidence that the killers were “radicalized” and “potentially inspired” by foreign terrorist...

Islamic extremism and the ideology that drives it is corrosive to the fabric of democracy and threatens to "spread through the generations" unless effective and urgent preventive measures are taken. That was one of the key messages to emerge from a...

Islamic extremism and the ideology that drives it is corrosive to the fabric of democracy and threatens to "spread through the generations" unless effective and urgent preventive measures are taken. That was one of the key messages to emerge from a...

NGOs already exist in different parts of the world, formed by former extremists, experienced educators, artists, media creators, religious leaders and young Muslims. They are making an impact but need organizational, financial and resource support...

It’s time for Twitter to step up. The micro-blogging site has refused to stamp out the considerable presence of terrorists on its network. Whereas Facebook is open to discussions of counterterrorism measures, Twitter’s response has been different....

Key allies in the US and UK led war on Islamic State (IS) are covertly financing the terrorist movement according to senior political sources in the region. US and British oil companies are heavily invested in the murky geopolitical triangle...

People from various hacking collectives have tried for several months to block social media accounts that spread propaganda and attempt to recruit fighters for the Islamic State, but those campaigns gained a new energy on Twitter after the Paris...

There is no doubt that Islamic State (ISIS) has taken responsibility on the Paris, France attacks—an event that undoubtedly forced the world to stand still. The Counter Extremism Project, an organization that works to understand and counter the ideas...

Given that ISIS and other terrorist organizations have proven adept at using social media to disseminate propaganda and incite fear, it seems obvious that platforms like Facebook and Twitter would aggressively and mercilessly delete such content and...