Extremist networks linked to ISIS have called for attacks against Hindus in India and across South and Southeast Asia, even as they praised recent violence in the United States and expanded online recruitment, according to a new report by the Counter...

Extremist Content Online: Online ISIS Supporters Praise Attempted New York Attack and Old Dominion Shooting; Under-18 White Supremacist Youth Clubs Spread to Canada

The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) reports on the methods used by extremists and terrorist groups on the Internet to spread propaganda and incite violence. ISIS online supporters praised both the March 7 attempted attack in New York and the March 12...

Eye on Extremism: March 16, 2026

A string of recent synagogue attacks across North America and Europe has left security officials sounding the alarm bells. “We are in the midst of the most elevated and complex threat environment the Jewish community and this country has seen in...

“The relationship between the cartels and Hezbollah is long-standing, significant and multifaceted,” the senior director of the Counter Extremism Project, Hans-Jakob Schindler, told The New York Sun. Mr. Schindler said the “strategically most...

Where is Mojtaba Khamenei? Days after being named Iran's supreme leader following Ali Khamenei's death, Mojtaba Khamenei has not appeared on camera. Hans-Jakob Schindler of the Counter Extremism Project tell DW what's known about him.

Eye on Extremism: March 13, 2026

Officials have not yet offered a motive for the attack at the synagogue outside Detroit on Thursday. But the case is the latest in a series of assaults and threats against synagogues and Jews in recent months, with tensions accelerating in the wake...

Counter Extremism Project Condemns Antisemitic Islamic Republic of Iran Regime-inspired Al-Quds Day Marches Around the World, Calls to Ban Marches and Demonstrations Outright

On Sunday, Al-Quds Day will take place in locations around the western world. It was created by Ruhollah Khomeini, the founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran, shortly after the Iranian Revolution of 1979. He conceived it as a day in furtherance of...

Old Dominion University Terror Attack Perpetrated by Al-Qaeda Cleric Anwar al-Awlaki-inspired Former National Guard Member

Yesterday, a shooting at Old Dominion University left one person dead and two injured after a gunman opened fire inside a campus building. The suspect, who was subdued by students and died at the scene, has been identified as Mohammed Bailor Jalloh...

[CEP Senior Director] Middle East and terrorism expert Hans-Jakob Schindler doubted whether the current strategy would achieve the former in particular. The current aim is to bring about regime change through air strikes so that sufficient numbers of...

Expert Hans-Jakob Schindler assumes that Ahmadinejad is still alive. And there must be a reason for that. “For right on the very first day, the U.S. and Israel succeeded—100 percent—in killing those individuals who had been identified as priority...