"Sir Ivor Roberts, a former UK counter-terrorism chief and senior adviser to the Counter Extremism Project, a Washington-based think tank, said: ‘This is a moment of extreme danger for the West."

Terror on a Shopping Street: The Inquest into the Streatham High Road Incident – Week Two

This is the second in a series of briefings on events at the Inquest into the death of convicted terrorist Sudesh Amman. Full details of the circumstances of the Inquest and the highlights of week one are here . This week’s evidence focused on the...

CEP Senior Advisor Sir Ivor Roberts quoted: "Quite apart from disaster being visited on Afghan people, the West faces a renewal of the same terrorist threat which led to 9/11 and the rise of ISIS. "Some reports have spoken of up to 20 terrorist...

CEP Advisory Board Member Ambassador Nathan Sales quoted: "U.S. intelligence officials had previously said it would take up to two years for al-Qaeda to reconstitute in Afghanistan. Nathan Sales, who served as a senior counterterrorism official...

CEP Advisory Board Member Ambassador Nathan Sales quoted: "Biden may not be as insulated by public opposition to the war as he thinks he is, critics said. Nor is it a given that Trump’s support for a withdrawal transfers immunity to Biden, said...

CEP Executive Director David Ibsen commentary featured: "Yet however appalling it might be to watch progress made over decades wiped out in a matter of days, this is only the start. For whatever words come out of their mouths, the Taliban have not...

CEP Senior Advisor Dr. Hany Farid writes: "Apple has taken the modest but long overdue step of extending a decade-old technology to protect children online, with appropriate protections for user privacy. It should not be criticized for these efforts...

Taliban Continues Sweeping Offensive In Afghanistan

This week, the Taliban seized the Afghan provincial capitals of Pul-i-Khumri, Farah, Faizabad, and Ghazni, giving them estimated control of more than two-thirds of the country. The Taliban’s victories bring the total number of major cities captured...

CEP's Daniel Roth quoted: "‘The Iranian threat to shipping in the Gulf is substantial and borne out by numerous examples of Iranian attacks, hijackings, detentions and increasingly, drone strikes. ‘Iran considers the Gulf its private lake, which it...

"The ‘kamikaze’ unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), which are designed to explode upon impact, are a ‘core element’ of Tehran’s attempts to exert its presence in the region, the Counter Extremism Project (CEP) said."