The CounterPoint Blog

December 14, 2017 Ryan Pereira

ISIS’s Struggling Media Strategy

ISIS’s media arm is struggling to find a way to report on the group’s recent military encounters, specifically its humiliating losses to the Syrian and Iraqi armies in Abu Kamal and al-Qaim, respectively. This problem is clearly reflected by ISIS’s...

December 01, 2017 CEP Staff

Encryption a Challenge to Public Safety

Two years ago, Syed Rizwan Farook and his wife Tashfeen Malik carried out a horrific shooting attack at a holiday party sponsored by Farook’s employer, the San Bernardino County Public Health Department, killing 14 people. During the attack, the...

November 20, 2017 Felicia Woron

Losing Raqqa: ISIS’s PR Crisis

In the latest blow to ISIS’s military prowess, U.S.-backed forces recaptured Raqqa, Syria, on October 17. In July, the terror group lost control of Mosul, Iraq’s second largest city, which it captured in 2014. These major territorial losses present a...

November 03, 2017 Ryan Pereira

ISIS Claims Credit for New York Deaths

ISIS officially claimed credit late on November 2 for the October 31 attack in Manhattan, in which Sayfullo Saipov drove a rental truck down a busy bicycle path, killing eight people. CEP has translated from Arabic and analyzed ISIS’s announcement...