"ISIS-K militants have been captured in a series of arrests in Germany, the Netherlands and elsewhere in Europe over the past three years, according to Hans-Jakob Schindler, senior director at the Counter Extremism Project, a trans-Atlantic think...

New CEP Report: The Wagner Group In The Central Sahel – Decolonization Or Destabilization?

The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) released a new report today, The Wagner Group In Central Sahel: Decolonization or Destabilization? The report analyzes the implications of the Kremlin-based Wagner Group’s involvement in countering insurgencies in...

"The assassination of a Hamas leader in Beirut and a terror attack in Iran have triggered fears of an explosion of attacks throughout the region. Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler, Sr. Director at the Counter-Extremism Project says the attack in Iran is...

"In this week’s episode of 'The Hunt with WTOP national security correspondent JJ Green,' senior director at the Counter Extremism Project Hans-Jakob Schindler says the attack near the gravesite of Qassem Solemani, a former top Iranian military...

CEP Senior Advisor Ian Acheson writes: "No one is talking about these clandestine arrivals who have melted into the background, traumatised, exploited, enslaved. Yet they will include tomorrow’s violent extremists who do or will pose a threat to...

CEP BRIEF: HAMAS LEADER SALEH AL-AROURI KILLED IN ALLEGED ISRAELI STRIKE IN LEBANON

On January 2nd, Hamas military leader and financier Saleh al-Arouri was killed in an alleged Israeli strike in the Beirut suburb of Dahiyeh, according to reports from the Hezbollah-linked al Mayadeen and confirmed by Hezbollah. Arouri had been...

"Former prison governor, Professor Ian Acheson (inset) of the Counter Extremism Project, has also spoken out against the commissioner’s proposal – saying that any form of equivalence between the two groups would be the 'antithesis of reconciliation'...

CEP Senior Director Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler interviewed: Saleh al-Arouri "has been in Beirut as the quasi-Hamas ambassador to Hezbollah and one of the key liaison individuals of Hamas to the Islamic Republic of Iran...so really a key, very...

"Al-Arouri was a founding member of the West Bank armed wing of Hamas and a financier of the group, according to the Counter Extremism Project. Al-Arouri was also designated as a terrorist by the United States and had a bounty of $5 million issued in...

"Today, ISPK is one of the most active IS groups in the world. It pursues jihadist goals and has repeatedly carried out attacks in Afghanistan in recent years. But not only there: 'ISPK is still the IS offshoot that tries to organize the most attacks...