“The group, through its media organization Az-Zallaqa Foundation, also criticized journalists and the local government's security management in light of the crisis in the region on Monday, regional media reported. The 72-year-old was kidnapped by...

Extremist Content Online: ISIS Propaganda Allegedly Helped Inspire New Orleans Attacker

The Counter Extremism Project’s (CEP) weekly report on the methods used by extremists and terrorist groups on the Internet to spread propaganda and incite violence returns. Last week, ISIS’s al-Naba newsletter, over a week after the attack, claimed...

Eye on Extremism: January 14, 2025

“Hamas has accepted a draft agreement for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and the release of dozens of hostages, two officials involved in the talks said Tuesday. Mediator Qatar said the negotiations were at the “closest point” yet to sealing a deal...

Eye on Extremism: January 13, 2025

“In October, we traveled to the Cabo Delgado Province in northern Mozambique to understand how terrorists who claim an affiliation with the Islamic State have gained a foothold and wreaked havoc on Muslims and Christians alike. Officials in the...

CEP Senior Advisor Ian Acheson writes: "What can recent developments in the scandal over child sexual exploitation tell us about our dangerous descent into a low trust society? Two Labour MPs have now broken ranks to contradict the leadership and say...

“... The TIP is "still officially part of the global al-Qaida network and, unlike HTS, has never distanced itself from al-Qaida," explains terrorism expert Hans-Jakob Schindler of the Counter Extremism Project. "The fact that HTS accepts the TIP in...

“The man who plowed through Bourbon Street on New Year’s Day with an ISIS flag on his truck was closely following the terror group’s playbook, promoted in English language magazines and online content circulated globally in an attempt to inspire lone...

""Terrorism is essentially communications," said Hans-Jacob Schindler, a former United Nations diplomat who is a senior director of the Counter Extremist Project, a think-tank with offices in New York and Berlin. "It is not warfare because obviously...

Artificial Intelligence and Extremism: “Cybertruck Bomber”

The case involving Matthew Livelsberger, a former U.S. Army Green Beret, who used a Tesla Cybertruck to execute an explosion outside the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas, has brought broader public attention to the intersection of artificial...

“... The TIP is "still officially part of the global al-Qaida network and, unlike HTS, has never distanced itself from al-Qaida," explains terrorism expert Hans-Jakob Schindler of the Counter Extremism Project. "The fact that HTS accepts the TIP in...