"In a webinar, hosted by the Counter Extremism Project, experts explained that key recruiters also helped facilitate their journeys, weapons and training. It highlighted the role of hate preachers like Britain’s Anjem Choudary in recruiting...

ISIS Redux: The Central Syria Insurgency in September 2020

Following is the September installment of “ISIS Redux: The Central Syria Insurgency,” a monthly chronicle of attacks by the terrorist group ISIS in central Syria. August’s update can be read here , July’s update can be read here , the June update can...

CEP Senior Advisor Dr. Hany Farid: "Algorithms are amplifying the most divisive, the most hateful, the most conspiratorial, the most outrageous, because that engages people and that maximizes profit."

Tech & Terrorism: Online Propaganda Shown As Factor In Deadly Manchester Bombing

This month, the Manchester Magistrates’ Court launched a public inquiry examining alleged failures to prevent the May 2017 Manchester Arena bombing, in which Salman Abedi killed 22 people and wounded 250 in a suicide bombing. The inquiry has partly...

CEP Senior Director Hans-Jakob Schindler discusses what happened this past week when Paris was rattled by a stabbing attack at the very location where 12 people were killed during the Charlie Hebdo attacks in 2015.

CEP Webinar: "The Logistics Of Foreign Fighters From 3 Ideological Backgrounds" | September 30, 2020

This webinar was conducted on the 30th of September 2020. Four leading experts presented the logistics of foreign fighters coming from the three ideological milieus:  Asya Metodieva, researcher, Institute of International Relations, Prague, will...

Stabbing Attack In Paris With Charlie Hebdo Trial Underway

Last week, a man wielding a butcher’s knife stabbed two bystanders outside of the former offices of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, where assailants affiliated with al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) killed 12 people in January 2015...

CEP Senior Director Hans-Jakob Schindler on WTOP's The Hunt

On September 30, 2020, CEP Senior Director Hans-Jakob Schindler spoke with J.J. Green on WTOP's The Hunt to explain what happened this past week when Paris was rattled by a stabbing attack. The incident took place at the same location where 12 people...

Extremist Content Online: Pro-ISIS Magazine Promotes Terorrist Attacks

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, the eighth edition of the pro-ISIS web magazine “Voice of...

"Joshua Fisher Birch, a research analyst with the U.S. based Counter Extremism Project, described the group as a 'secretive satanic, fascist cult that believes in the use of extreme violence, rape, pedophilia, murder, and terrorism to bring about...