Eye on Extremism: February 27, 2026

Pakistan has bombed major cities in Afghanistan including the capital, Kabul, with Islamabad’s defence minister declaring that the hostile neighbours were in a state of “open war” as a cycle of retaliatory attacks escalated further. Witnesses in...

Eye on Extremism: February 26, 2026

Afghanistan has launched a "large-scale" military operation on Pakistani army positions in response to recent strikes carried out by Islamabad, Taliban officials have said. "Numerous" Pakstani soldiers have been killed and some captured in the...

[CEP Senior Director] Terrorism expert Hans-Jakob Schindler analyzes the Geneva negotiations on Iran: The US is not taking a clear stance, and Israel may prefer a preemptive strike. “The danger of a conflagration remains,” says Schindler.

In this conversation with Danish Shaikh, Editor, The International Wire, Dr. Hans Jakob Karl Schindler, Senior Director at the Counter Extremism Project and former Coordinator of the UN Security Council’s ISIL, Al-Qaeda and Taliban Monitoring Team...

The US and Iran are currently negotiating the controversial Iranian nuclear program in Geneva. The US has probably abandoned the idea of regime change, says Hans Jakob Schindler from the think tank Counter Extremism Project.

“The assassination claim from the Base’s Ukraine operation shows that they want to be seen as operational, an ongoing threat, and, based on their statement, firmly opposed to the Russian government,” said Joshua Fisher-Birch, an extremism analyst at...

The US and Iran are currently negotiating the controversial Iranian nuclear program in Geneva. The US has probably abandoned the idea of regime change, says Hans Jakob Schindler from the think tank Counter Extremism Project.

Hans-Jakob Schindler analyzes the Geneva negotiations on Iran: The US is not taking a clear stance, and Israel may prefer a preemptive strike. “The danger of a conflagration remains,” says Hans-Jakob Schindler, terrorism expert, on WELT TV.

CEP Senior Director Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler speaks about Chinese cyber espionage.

Eye on Extremism: February 25, 2026

A “mass escape” took place last month from Syria’s al-Hol camp that holds ISIS-linked families following the withdrawal of Kurdish forces, Syrian TV reported, amid reports thousands of people may have fled. Nureddin Baba, the interior ministry...