"The Active Clubs were originally founded by American neo-Nazi activist Robert Rundo in response to the arrests of members of his former group 'Rise Above Movement'," explains Alexander Ritzmann, a specialist in these movements for the Counter...

Weakened by a French military intervention in 2013 in Mali, Ag Ghaly bounced back in 2017 by uniting the Ansar Dine, Katiba Macina and Al-Mourabitoun groups to form JNIM. His nickname is "the strategist", said Hans-Jakob Schindler, director of the...

Left-wing extremist groups are calling for massive protests in Giessen against the founding of an AfD youth organization. “The left-wing extremist milieu has enormous mobilization potential,” says security expert Hans-Jakob Schindler, [CEP Senior...

The Active Clubs network has been notable for the speed with which it has grown and spread. Alexander Ritzmann, a researcher for the Counter Extremism Project and an adviser to the European Commission’s Radicalisation Awareness Network, said he had...

Extremist Content Online: ISIS Online Supporter Releases Anonymous Cryptocurrency Guide, White Supremacist Group Offers Alleged Online Paramilitary Training Via Telegram

The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) reports on the methods used by extremists and terrorist groups on the Internet to spread propaganda and incite violence. Last week, a member of a pro-ISIS chat on the RocketChat program released a 41-page manual...

Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler, renowned terrorism expert and Senior Director of the Counter Extremism Project, analyzed the current threat posed by international terrorism. In his keynote speech, he referred to nine attempted attacks in the recent past...

Eye on Extremism: November 17, 2025

Thousands of miles from the frontlines in Ukraine, where the Kremlin's war machine is steadily grinding forward, Russian forces face a potentially catastrophic situation in the West African nation of Mali as Al-Qaeda-loyal militants close in on the...

The Dark Side of OSINT: How Extremists Exploit Open-Source Intelligence

By Elena Martynova, EU GLOCTER PhD Candidate, Seconded to CEP The previous blog post examined how open-source intelligence (OSINT) has transformed modern counter-terrorism. By analyzing data from public sources such as satellite imagery, social media...

Since 2020, Active Clubs have expanded rapidly across the United States, Canada and Europe, including the U.K., France, Sweden, and Finland. Precise numbers are hard to verify, but the clubs appear to be spreading, according to The Counter Extremism...

DW talks to Sofia Koller, Senior Research Analyst at the Counter Extremism Project about counter terrorism efforts in Europe.