Weakened by a French military intervention in 2013 in Mali, Ag Ghaly bounced back in 2017 by uniting the Ansar Dine, Katiba Macina and Al-Mourabitoun groups to form JNIM. His nickname is "the strategist", said Hans-Jakob Schindler, director of the...

Left-wing extremist groups are calling for massive protests in Giessen against the founding of an AfD youth organization. “The left-wing extremist milieu has enormous mobilization potential,” says security expert Hans-Jakob Schindler, [CEP Senior...

The Active Clubs network has been notable for the speed with which it has grown and spread. Alexander Ritzmann, a researcher for the Counter Extremism Project and an adviser to the European Commission’s Radicalisation Awareness Network, said he had...

Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler, renowned terrorism expert and Senior Director of the Counter Extremism Project, analyzed the current threat posed by international terrorism. In his keynote speech, he referred to nine attempted attacks in the recent past...

Since 2020, Active Clubs have expanded rapidly across the United States, Canada and Europe, including the U.K., France, Sweden, and Finland. Precise numbers are hard to verify, but the clubs appear to be spreading, according to The Counter Extremism...

DW talks to Sofia Koller, Senior Research Analyst at the Counter Extremism Project about counter terrorism efforts in Europe.

CEP Senior Director Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler interviewed on the 10th anniversary of the Paris terror attacks: “France is marking the 10th anniversary of the Paris terror attacks by Islamic State Jihadists, who killed more 130 people and wounded...

The Middle East conflict has radicalized many people in Islamist and left-wing extremist circles, [CEP Senior Director] Hans-Jakob Schindler said on NDR Info.

Islamist terrorist attacks are increasingly being carried out by lone perpetrators—radicalization is happening faster and faster and also affects minors. “We are in a very complex threat situation,” says terrorism expert [and CEP Senior Director]...

"It confronted European officials with a new reality," comments Hans-Jakob Schindler, founder and current director of the Counter Extremism Project (CEP)—based in New York and Berlin—and former head of the UN Security Council's Sanctions Monitoring...