CounterPoint Brief: Hamas Names Yahya Sinwar as New Leader

Yesterday, August 6, Hamas named Yahya Sinwar as the new leader of its political bureau. Previously Hamas’s leader inside the Gaza Strip since 2017, Sinwar will now assume overall leadership of the terrorist organization. Israeli authorities...

CounterPoint Brief: Hamas Names Yahya Sinwar as New Leader

Yesterday, August 6, Hamas named Yahya Sinwar as the new leader of its political bureau. Previously Hamas’s leader inside the Gaza Strip since 2017, Sinwar will now assume overall leadership of the terrorist organization. Israeli authorities...

Former prison governor Ian Acheson, an adviser to think tank the Counter Extremism Project, told the BBC he was “completely against” terrorism charges being considered. He said: 'I think giving these people an ideological justification for what they...

"On this week’s episode of “The Hunt with WTOP National Security Correspondent J.J. Green”, Hans Jakob Schindler, senior director of the Counter Extremism Project, said that it must haven a “serious” situation that led to the cancellation of Taylor...

"Edmund Fitton-Brown, a former senior United Nations counterterrorism official who is a senior adviser at the Counter Extremism Project, a non-governmental organisation, warned it appeared to be getting 'harder and harder to prevent escalation each...

"In fact, Sinwar had the most influence within the terrorist organization, even though Haniya held the political leadership position on paper. "As a result of the attack on October 7, the Hamas leadership in Gaza took actual control of the terrorist...

"'They took advantage of the massive flow of refugees from Ukraine to get into the Schengen area. Once you are in Poland, there are no further border controls. And in the situation where there is war in Ukraine, it is of course much easier to insert...

“... Former prison governor Ian Acheson, an adviser to think tank the Counter Extremism Project, told the BBC he was "completely against" terrorism charges being considered. He said: "I think giving these people an ideological justification for what...

“The neo-Nazi group The Base is recruiting leaders to form new cells in the United States of America. The information was transmitted by the group's leader, Rinaldo Nazzaro, through messages on his private Telegram channel, cited by the British...

"Joshua Fisher-Birch, an analyst at the Counter Extremism Project who has kept tabs on the Base since its inception, says the group maintains several American members and that Nazzaro often talks of having poured thousands in personal finances into...