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March 10, 2016

The Counter Extremism Project, a New York-based nonprofit aimed at combating extremist ideologies and groups, is pressing Sony on the extent of terrorist communication on the PlayStation 4 network. It is also asking what steps Sony is taking to tamp...

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February 29, 2016

In this op-ed, CEP Research Analyst Julie Shain applauds the UN Security Council for voting unanimously to crack down financially and militarily on the Islamic State (IS), but argues that UN sanctions must be broadened to respond effectively to IS’s...

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February 22, 2016

Officials and analysts hope the new European Counter Terror Center will prove valuable both in the short and long term, though they admit it alone will likely not be enough to deter Europe’s next major terror attack. “It’s part of a menu of things...

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February 16, 2016

Facebook Inc., the world's largest social media network, is more aggressively monitoring material on its site relating to terrorism. Mark Wallace of the Counter Extremism Project, a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, told The Wall Street...

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February 11, 2016

Hours after the December shootings in San Bernardino, Calif., Mark Wallace asked his employees at the nonprofit Counter Extremism Project to comb social media for profiles of the alleged attackers. They failed. A team at Facebook Inc. had already...

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February 7, 2016

Twitter, an American social networking website, says since 2015 it has deleted 125,000 accounts linked to the Daesh (ISIL) Takfiri group. The California-based company made the announcement, adding it has stepped up its fight against violent extremism...

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February 4, 2016

There are at least 40 Americans – far more than previously believed – actively serving in the Islamist terror group Al Shabaab, including dozens of radicalized killers from Minnesota’s prominent Somali-American community, experts told Fox News. "In...

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February 3, 2016

Forces fighting the terror thugs of ISIS captured a bizarre pick-up truck with tank-style treads. In October an investigation was launched into how so many Toyotas ended up in the hands of ISIS. Mark Wallace, a former US Ambassador to the United...

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January 25, 2016

CEP CEO Ambassador Mark D. Wallace, writing in USA Today ,called on video sharing platform YouTube to immediately remove videos of the notorious American cleric turned al-Qaeda propagandist Anwar al-Awlaki. “Because of his homicidal anti-American...

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January 25, 2016

U.S. intelligence agencies investigating the kidnapping of three Americans in Baghdad, Iraq last week are focusing their probe on three militant Islamic groups closely affiliated with Iran. Asaib Ahl al-Haq, Kata'ib Hezbollah and the Badr...

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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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