“As a pure sanction, this would have relatively few consequences. But it would send a strong political signal,” says extremism expert and Middle East specialist Hans-Jakob Schindler, director of the Counter Extremism Project in Berlin. In recent...

Eye on Extremism: January 14, 2026

The Trump administration waded into a regional debate over the Muslim Brotherhood on Tuesday, designating the Lebanese, Jordanian and Egyptian chapters of the transnational Sunni Islamist group as terrorist organizations. The group founded in the...

Philanthropist Elliott Brody writes: Prior to acquiring the whiteprint, in 2024, I helped the Counter Extremism Project, a nonprofit organization, purchase a house next door to Auschwitz. Commandant Rudolf Hoss lived there from May 1940 to December...

Eye on Extremism: January 13, 2026

Iran International’s Editorial Board has published a statement titled “The killing of 12,000 Iranians will not be buried in silence,” setting out its findings on the latest crackdown and calling for documents and testimony. The full text of the...

As described by the Counter Extremism Project, the Muslim Brotherhood is a transnational Sunni Islamist movement, founded in Egypt in 1928, that seeks to implement sharia (Islamic law) under a global caliphate. The group has already been labeled a...

"It's at least theoretically conceivable that Iran could offer American companies access to its oil. The Iranian oil industry is dilapidated and urgently needs investment," Hans-Jakob Schindler, head of the Berlin-based think tank Counter Extremism...

According to sources, two figures have now emerged as frontrunners to be the head of the political bureau: Khalil Al-Hayya and Khaled Meshaal. Hayya, 65, a Gaza native and Hamas’s chief negotiator in ceasefire talks, has held senior roles since at...

Extremist Content Online: ISIS Celebrates 2025 Attacks, Calls for Lone-Actor Attacks in 2026; CEP Researchers Locate Notorious ISIS Bomb Making Video on Five Websites; Neo-Nazi Groups Note Successes in 2025 and Call for Strengthening Movements in 2026

The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) reports on the methods used by extremists and terrorist groups on the Internet to spread propaganda and incite violence. On January 1, ISIS released an editorial in its al-Naba newsletter celebrating attacks that...

The Continuing Threat of Doxing as an Extremist Tactic

Doxing, the practice of exposing personal identifiable information (PII) for hostile purposes, continues to be a standard tactic used by right-wing extremist movements with a significant online presence. Acts of doxing used by extremists can lead to...

Eye on Extremism: January 12, 2026

Afghanistan International has obtained a collection of official documents and internal reports from Taliban authorities that reveal the direct involvement of members of the group in extrajudicial killings in several Afghan provinces. The documents...