“"We are trying to bring some normality back to the lives of the affected communities."Any volunteer who comes to North Carolina or Florida to help the victims of hurricanes Helene and Milton could say the same. But the man who says this in front of...

Eye on Extremism: October 11, 2024

“The leaders of nine southern European Union countries and Jordan are meeting in Cyprus on Friday to come up with ways to de-escalate the crisis in the Middle East that is threatening to engulf Lebanon and trigger a wider humanitarian crisis. Jordan...

Eye on Extremism: October 10, 2024

“Hezbollah militants fired rockets at Israeli towns and fought ground battles with Israeli troops in southern Lebanon on Wednesday, as the United Nations warned that nearly a million Lebanese had fled the spreading war between Israel and Iranian...

“Reviving England’s warrior culture” by posing as a sports club. That is what a far-right group linked to a violent white supremacist collective is doing, which has been recruiting young people to achieve that goal, according to a BBC investigation....

CEP Senior Advisor Ian Acheson quoted: "Ian Acheson, who reviewed the threat of Islamist extremism in prisons in 2016, cautioned against a move towards viewing the many hundreds who were convicted of criminal offences during the riots as a single...

"Israel says it's preparing a strong military retaliation after Iran launched more than 200 missiles into Israeli territory last week. Hans Jakob Schindler, Senior Director at the Counter Extremism Project, believes that only the US military could...

"The FBI has broken up a plot to launch a terror attack in Oklahoma City on Election Day. An Afghan national who came to the U.S. in 2021 on a special visa, allegedly plotted with a relative to attack people in line to vote with automatic assault...

CEP Advisor Liam Duffy writes: "“MI5 has one hell of a job on its hands.” That was the warning yesterday from the agency’s Director-General, Ken McCallum, in a speech which touched on everything from Russian espionage to Iranian assassination plots...

Eye on Extremism: October 9, 2024

“Hezbollah militants targeted Israeli soldiers near the Lebanese border village of Labbouneh with artillery shells and rockets on Wednesday, the group said, a day after Israel said it had killed two successors to its slain leader. The Iran-backed...

"Netanyahu's stance toward a peace deal may hinge on who wins the US presidential elections in November, said Edmund Fitton-Brown, a senior advisor to the Counter Extremism Project."