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Six years ago, a group of political leaders such as former American ambassador to the United Nations, Mark Wallace, ambassador Dennis Ross and former CIA director James Woolsey, established an advocacy group called "United Against Nuclear Iran" (UANI), aimed at preventing Iran from...

The medieval brutality of the founders of ISIL, the beheading of a French citizen in Algeria by jihadists linked to ISIL, the abduction and enslavement of schoolgirls in Nigeria, slaughter in a Kenyan shopping mall. Every day seems to bring fresh reminders of the growing strength and reach of...

WASHINGTON — With top-level meetings underway at the United Nations to determine a plan for confronting the Islamic State, blocks away, a star-studded panel launched a nongovernmental initiative to confront what it described as a “growing threat from extremist ideology.” During a...

HAPPENING TODAY -- Counter Extremism project goes live: Former Sen. Joe Lieberman, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Mark Wallace and former presidential adviser Fran Townsend take to the media today to begin exposing the Islamic State's financial benefactors. That's in the...

HAPPENING TODAY IN NYC: “Ambassador Mark Wallace, former Homeland Security Advisor Fran Townsend, and former U.S. Senator Joseph Lieberman will announce the launch of the Counter Extremism Project, an organization led by a renowned group of former world leaders and former diplomats. It will...

The United States should stop going out of its way to avoid calling the military initiative against the Islamic State (ISIS) a war, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Mark Wallace says. "We're clearly at war. This is absolutely a war, but we're too defensive on that. Why...

A new counter-terror NGO called the Counter Extremism Project debuted on Monday, which seeks to target the growing threat from radical Islamic groups on multiple fronts, one of which is exposing their financing networks.

Amid the rise of extremist movements in the Middle East and with growing fears by Western countries that their national security interests are threatened, an American organization, with an international presence to combat extremism, kicks off in New York today. Through "databases" and...

The sudden rise of the well-armed, well-financed and media-savvy Isis militant group could not have come about unless unscrupulous companies and individuals slipped money to the group or did business with it, said the founders of a new, private research and advocacy group that will seek to expose...

A new group aims to hit the brutal Islamic State fanatics where it hurts — the pocketbook. It’s called the Counter Extremism Project the goal is to cut the flow of money to the murderous militants by unmasking the companies and private donors that have been funding them or selling oil...