Fact:
On April 3, 2017, the day Vladimir Putin was due to visit the city, a suicide bombing was carried out in the St. Petersburg metro, killing 15 people and injuring 64. An al-Qaeda affiliate, Imam Shamil Battalion, claimed responsibility.
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ISIS shootings, suicide bombings, and mass beheadings are documented on a daily basis. However troubling these frequent reports may be, the broader picture is even more frightening; the terror group has amassed far more firepower than explosives and...
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Facebook Inc., the world's largest social media network, is more aggressively monitoring material on its site relating to terrorism. Mark Wallace of the Counter Extremism Project, a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, told The Wall Street...
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Hours after the December shootings in San Bernardino, Calif., Mark Wallace asked his employees at the nonprofit Counter Extremism Project to comb social media for profiles of the alleged attackers. They failed. A team at Facebook Inc. had already...
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In December, the United Kingdom published long-awaited findings from its internal review of the Muslim Brotherhood’s ideology and activities. Prime Minister David Cameron had commissioned this review in early 2014 to better understand the origins and...
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(New York, NY) – The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) applauds Twitter’s announcement of its renewed efforts to suspend accounts tied to violent extremist groups and their supporters. Eighteen months after CEP initially raised the alarm over the...
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Twitter, an American social networking website, says since 2015 it has deleted 125,000 accounts linked to the Daesh (ISIL) Takfiri group. The California-based company made the announcement, adding it has stepped up its fight against violent extremism...
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There are at least 40 Americans – far more than previously believed – actively serving in the Islamist terror group Al Shabaab, including dozens of radicalized killers from Minnesota’s prominent Somali-American community, experts told Fox News. "In...
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Forces fighting the terror thugs of ISIS captured a bizarre pick-up truck with tank-style treads. In October an investigation was launched into how so many Toyotas ended up in the hands of ISIS. Mark Wallace, a former US Ambassador to the United...
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Families faced with the horror of losing a loved one to the lure of ISIS propaganda have often chosen collective action in the hopes of stopping radicalization and emigration to ISIS controlled areas. But other families have chosen to wage their...
Press Release
CEP released a new resource detailing the history and violent activities of Islamic terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), which has played a central role in indoctrinating, recruiting, and training thousands of jihadists in Pakistan since the 1980s. In...
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Fact:
On April 3, 2017, the day Vladimir Putin was due to visit the city, a suicide bombing was carried out in the St. Petersburg metro, killing 15 people and injuring 64. An al-Qaeda affiliate, Imam Shamil Battalion, claimed responsibility.
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