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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August 25, 2022
CEP Webinar: 30 Years Of Western Jihad – A Discussion With Jytte Klausen
(New York, N.Y. / London) – Ahead of the 21st anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks, the Counter Extremism Project (CEP) invites you to attend our upcoming webinar with Professor Jytte Klausen, curator of the Western Jihadism Project at...
Press Release
August 24, 2022
Al-Shabaab Kills 21 And Wounds More Than 100 In 30-Hour Siege Of Mogadishu Hotel
Somali security forces ended a 30-hour assault by al-Shabaab militants on the Hayat Hotel in Mogadishu last weekend that left 21 people dead and 117 wounded. This was the first major attack by the extremist group since Somali President Hassan Sheikh...
Press Release
August 22, 2022
Extremist Content Online: Pro-ISIS Tech Group Releases List Of 12 Recommended E-Mail Services
The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) reports weekly on the methods used by extremists to exploit the Internet and social media platforms to recruit followers and incite violence. Last week the pro-ISIS tech group Qimam Electronic Foundation...
Press Release
August 19, 2022
Extremist Content Online: Facebook Edition
The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) reports weekly on the methods used by extremists to exploit Meta-owned Facebook to spread propaganda, recruit followers, and incite violence in order to hold the popular social media platform accountable for its...
Press Release
August 18, 2022
Khomeinism Continues To Influence Radical Islamic Thought
Last Friday, Hadi Matar allegedly stabbed Salman Rushdie while the author was lecturing in western New York. The attack came over 30 years after the Islamic Republic of Iran’s first supreme leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, issued a 1989 fatwa...
Press Release
August 16, 2022
Extremist Content Online: Cloudflare Hosting Holocaust Denial Website And Store
The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) reports weekly on the methods used by extremists to exploit the Internet and social media platforms to recruit followers and incite violence. Last week, CEP researchers identified a Holocaust denial website and a...
Press Release
August 15, 2022
Attacks And Assassination Plots Highlight Threat Of Iranian Terror
Last Wednesday, the U.S. Department of Justice unsealed an indictment against Shahram Poursafi, a member of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), for plotting a murder-for-hire attack against former U.S. National Security Adviser...
Press Release
August 15, 2022
CEP Analysis: One Year Since The Taliban’s Takeover In Afghanistan
Today, on the first anniversary of the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, CEP Senior Director and former coordinator of the ISIL (Da’esh), al-Qaida and Taliban Sanctions Monitoring Team of the U.N. Security Council Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler observed...
Press Release
August 12, 2022
CEP Statement On Attack Of Author Salman Rushdie
Counter Extremism Project (CEP) CEO Ambassador Mark D. Wallace released the following statement condemning Hadi Matar’s stabbing of Indian-born British-American author Salman Rushdie this morning while he was lecturing at the Chautauqua Institution...
Press Release
August 12, 2022
Extremist Content Online: Facebook Edition
The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) reports weekly on the methods used by extremists to exploit Meta-owned Facebook to spread propaganda, recruit followers, and incite violence in order to hold the popular social media platform accountable for its...
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