CEP in the News

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August 12, 2020

"In July, the group carried out at least 23 attacks in Syria alone, according to data compiled by the Counter Extremism Project. Those attacks were aimed mostly at forces loyal to Syrian dictator Bashar Assad, who for years has waged a simultaneous...

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August 5, 2020

"'At the moment, it appears that NSO is very much a new generation of AWD, as the new group is led by AWD leadership that was not arrested,' said Joshua Fisher-Birch, a research analyst at the Counter Extremism Project, a U.S.-based terrorism...

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August 4, 2020

CEP Senior Director Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler spoke on BBC Newshour about the complicated task of repatriating children of ISIS members, some of whose parents are dead and others whose mothers are considered a security risk. According to Dr. Schindler...

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August 3, 2020

CEP Advisor Liam Duffy writes: "Despite the ongoing torment, it is the lack of justice that has left the bitterest taste for many Yazidis. 40,000 foreigners joined Islamic State. Some 6,000 from Western Europe and several hundred more from North...

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August 1, 2020

"'If Germany … will continue to take part in the U.N. or NATO missions that involve actual fighting, you need a special forces unit,' Hans-Jakob Schindler, senior director of the Counter Extremism Project in Berlin, told VOA. 'Disbanding the whole...

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July 25, 2020

"Counter Extremism Project (CEP), an international non-governmental organization that claims to fight against the rise of extremist ideologies, contacted Iberdrola during the summer of 2017 to alert him 'of the dangerous nature of the relations...

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July 24, 2020

CEP Advisor Liam Duffy writes: "This danger will not be short-lived. The long arc of jihadism inside Britain stretches back 30 years when large numbers of British mujahideen left these shores to fight in Bosnia, Somalia and Chechnya. Nearly 30 years...

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July 24, 2020

"The non-profit Counter Extremism Project believes there have been 51 incidents of vehicles used as a weapon in terror attacks around the world since 2006, with 197 killed as a result and 1,102 injured.”

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July 23, 2020

"This week on Lawfare's Arbiters of Truth series on disinformation, Evelyn Douek and Quinta Jurecic spoke with Hany Farid, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, whose work focuses on analyzing and identifying altered photo and video...

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July 20, 2020

"A former officer in the army of Saddam Hussein, he joined the ranks of Al-Qaeda after the US invasion of Iraq and Hussein's capture in 2003, according to the Counter Extremism Project (CEP) think-tank."

Daily Dose

Extremists: Their Words. Their Actions.

Fact:

On April 3, 2017, the day Vladimir Putin was due to visit the city, a suicide bombing was carried out in the St. Petersburg metro, killing 15 people and injuring 64. An al-Qaeda affiliate, Imam Shamil Battalion, claimed responsibility. 

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