CEP report on Western Foreign Fighters and the Yazidi Genocide referenced: "Ce que semble confirmer une étude réalisée par l’ONG américaine Counter Extremism Project (CEP) qui affirme que parmi les 67 témoignages de survivantes yézidies qu’elle a...

"According to the Counter Extremism Project, the Great Replacement is 'an ethno-nationalist theory warning that an indigenous European – e.g. white – population is being replaced by non-European immigrants' through a programme of reverse-colonisation...

"The Counter Extremism Project interviewed 67 genocide survivors, many of whom said they were abused or assaulted by western ISIS recruits. In one case, a Yazidi woman describes the involvement of British extremist Siddhartha Dhar, a former bouncy...

"German right-wing extremists have organized music festivals and martial arts events to which thousands of extremists from a dozen countries have traveled. According to the Counter Extremism Project, events such as these have played a key role in the...

"German right-wing extremists have organized music festivals and martial arts events to which thousands of extremists from a dozen countries have traveled. According to the Counter Extremism Project, events such as these have played a key role in the...

U.S. State Department Sanctions ISIS In Central Africa In Response To Growing Regional Threat

Last week, the U.S. Department of State imposed sanctions on two ISIS affiliate groups, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria-Mozambique (ISIS-Mozambique) and the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria-Democratic Republic of the Congo (ISIS-DRC), in response...

CEP Report Launch:Western Foreign Fighters and the Yazidi Genocide | March 16, 2021

On March 16, 2021, CEP hosted a launch event for the new report, "Western Foreign Fighters and the Yazidi Genocide". As Western states face an ongoing dilemma over the fate of their stranded and captured “foreign fighters”, award-winning historian...

CEP Launches Report Highlighting Role of Western Foreign Fighters in Yazidi Genocide

Today, the Counter Extremism Project (CEP) launched the new report Western Foreign Fighters and the Yazidi Genocide, authored by London-based CEP Strategic Advisor Liam Duffy.

CEP Strategic Advisor Liam Duffy writes: "The mother and child were members of Iraq's Yazidi religious minority. Their captors, members of Islamic State (IS), are said to be German and Iraqi. At the time, Islamic State recruits felt invincible. They...

Extremist Content Online: Footage From Christchurch Terrorist Attack Video, Other White Supremacist Content, Found On Instagram

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 located several pieces of white supremacist...