Islamist terrorist attacks are increasingly being carried out by lone perpetrators—radicalization is happening faster and faster and also affects minors. “We are in a very complex threat situation,” says terrorism expert [and CEP Senior Director]...

Eye on Extremism: November 13, 2025

France is making a significant effort to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the attacks, which killed more than 130 people and injured more than 500. The coordinated shootings and suicide bombings by Islamic State extremists were the worst assaults...

"It confronted European officials with a new reality," comments Hans-Jakob Schindler, founder and current director of the Counter Extremism Project (CEP)—based in New York and Berlin—and former head of the UN Security Council's Sanctions Monitoring...

CEP Webinar: Rethinking the Fight Against Antisemitism After October 7

The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) invites you to the webinar “Rethinking the fight against Antisemitism after October 7”, which will take place on Wednesday, December 10, 2025.

New episode of #PodParis – with Sofia Koller from the Counter Extremism Project (CEP). Ten years after the attacks of November 13, 2015, we look back – and forward – together with Sofia Koller. In this episode, we talk about the security policy and...

The late Qaradawi served as spiritual leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, and was best known, the Counter Extremism Project notes, for advocating “the murder of Americans, gay people, and Jews through his writings, speeches, and fatwas.” In 2022...

Eye on Extremism: November 12, 2025

The bombings in the capital cities of India and Pakistan were just a day apart and nearly identical in damage and impact — about a dozen people killed in each blast, the deadliest for either city in more than a decade. There was nothing to directly...

Analysts with the Counter Extremism Project recently warned that a JNIM victory in Mali could make it the first country ruled by al-Qaida. Edmund Fitton-Brown, a senior fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, believes a JNIM victory...

Extremist Content Online: ISIS Celebrates Potential U.S. Military Intervention in Nigeria, Pro-ISIS and Extreme Right Propagandists Condemn New York City Mayor-Elect

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, ISIS celebrated potential U.S. military intervention in Nigeria in the group’s...

CEP Senior Director Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler interviewed about the arrest of a right-wing extremist in Germany accused of planning to kill German politicians on the dark net.