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July 18, 2022

Extremist Content Online: Carrd Removes Page For Neo-Nazi Propagandist After CEP Flag

The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) reports weekly on the methods used by extremists to exploit the Internet and social media platforms to recruit followers and incite violence. Last week on the directory website Carrd, CEP researchers located a neo...

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July 18, 2022

"IS carried out at least 10 confirmed attacks in June in Deir e-Zor, Raqqa, Hama and Homs provinces. The attacks killed at least 25 Syrian regime forces and three civilians, and wounded 26 others. This is the highest number of deaths attributed to IS...

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July 18, 2022

CEP Research Analyst Gregory Waters, co-author of report, writes: "ISIS is waging a resilient insurgency throughout central and north-eastern Syria. It treats these two quasi-independent zones as interconnected theatres, giving it flexibility in its...

Press Release

July 15, 2022

Extremist Content Online: Facebook Edition

Today, the Counter Extremism Project (CEP) is launching the first of a new series, Extremist Content Online: Facebook Edition, that will track extremists’ misuse of Meta-owned Facebook to spread propaganda, recruit followers, and incite violence. The...

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July 13, 2022

"On Tuesday, the Pentagon announced that a U.S. drone strike killed a leader of the Islamic State group in Syria. On this week’s episode of “The Hunt” with WTOP national security correspondent J.J. Green, the senior director at the Counter Extremism...

Videos

July 14, 2022

CEP Senior Director Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler on GLOBAL with JJ Green

On July 12, 2022, Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler, Senior Director of the Counter Extremism Project, joined GLOBAL with JJ Green for episode, "U.S. military kills 'mysterious' ISIS leader. Who was Maher al-Agal?" Dr. Schindler revealed who Agal was and why...

Press Release

July 13, 2022

ISIS Claims Jailbreak In Nigeria, Hundreds Of Inmates Freed

(New York, N.Y.) — The Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), the Nigeria-based chapter of ISIS, has claimed responsibility for the July 6 attack on a maximum-security prison in Abuja. The jailbreak, the first one conducted by ISWAP in the...

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July 13, 2022

CEP Senior Director Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler interviewed about new EUROPOL TE-SAT report on terrorism financing aspects.

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July 12, 2022

CEP Senior Director Hans-Jakob Schindler interviewed: "Terrorismus-Experte Hans-Jakob Schindler spricht bei WELT über die Tötung des Anführers der Dschihadistenmiliz Islamischer Staat (IS) in Syrien. Maher Al-Agal gehörte zum „engsten Führungskreis...

Press Release

July 12, 2022

CEP Welcomes Former UK Ambassador Edmund Fitton-Brown To Its Advisory Board

Today, the Counter Extremism Project (CEP) announced the addition of Ambassador Edmund Fitton-Brown, a former coordinator of the U.N. Security Council’s ISIL (Da’esh), al-Qaida, and Taliban Sanctions Monitoring Team and British diplomat, to its...

Daily Dose

Extremists: Their Words. Their Actions.

In Their Own Words:

We reiterate once again that the brigades will directly target US bases across the region in case the US enemy commits a folly and decides to strike our resistance fighters and their camps [in Iraq].

Abu Ali al-Askari, Kata’ib Hezbollah (KH) Security Official Mar. 2023
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