Eye on Extremism: June 3, 2025

The United States has given its blessing to a plan by Syria's new leadership to incorporate thousands of foreign jihadist former rebel fighters into the national army, provided that it does so transparently, President Donald Trump's envoy said. Three...

CEP Senior Director Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler interviewed: "Extremism expert Hans-Jakob Schindler says, while the perpetrator of the German Christmas market attack had been uniquely radicalised, they have been becoming more common since COVID-19."

Extremist Content Online: Pro-ISIS Online Community Issues Warnings Regarding Operations Security and Cybersecurity After Alleged Arrest, Christchurch Attack Footage with Over 100,000 Views Located on TikTok

The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) reports weekly on the methods used by extremists and terrorist groups on the Internet to spread propaganda and incite violence. Last week, CEP researchers located messages in an online pro-ISIS community on the...

Eye on Extremism: June 2, 2025

Eight people were injured on Sunday when a 45-year-old man yelled "Free Palestine" and threw incendiary devices into a crowd in Boulder, Colorado where a demonstration to remember the Israeli hostages who remain in Gaza was taking place, authorities...

CEP Senior Advisor Ian Acheson writes: "Robert Jenrick is continuing to annoy all the right people. This weekend he turned his focus to the appalling attacks on front line prison staff, including by terrorists, that have left dozens of wounded...

Counter Extremism Project Condemns Antisemitic Attack in Boulder, Colorado

(New York, NY) - A peaceful gathering in support of Israeli hostages turned into a scene of terror this weekend in Boulder, Colorado, when a man shouting "Free Palestine" hurled Molotov cocktails and used a flamethrower against his victims. Eight...

CEP Senior Advisor Ian Acheson: "I was asked by the shadow justice secretary to undertake a rapid review of the current threat to prison officers in general and those maimed by terrorists in particular. I was given no terms of reference, no steer and...

Ian Acheson Warns of Escalating Violent Extremism Threat in UK Prisons

(London, UK) – The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) today publishes a stark new assessment by Professor Ian Acheson, Senior Advisor, warning that the current threat posed by violent extremists and extremist-adjacent offenders in UK prisons is...

At first glance, such groups give the impression that they organize primarily through social networks, says Alexander Ritzmann, head of the right-wing extremism department at the Counter Extremism Project and FDP interior affairs expert until 2006...

According to terrorism expert for the Counter Extremism Project, Riza Kumar, Mr. Kony was nearly captured by Russian mercenaries in the Central African Republic before reportedly fleeing towards Sudan in April last year. “Kony presumably remains at...