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.
Press Releases
Press Release
May 10, 2017
CEP Spotlights Extremism and Counter-Extremism from Albania to Yemen
CEP released 10 new reports on extremism and counter-extremism efforts, expanding to 38 the number of countries profiled in conjunction with an interactive map tool that pinpoints the geographic scope and impact of extremist and terrorist groups.
Press Release
May 8, 2017
Rooted in Ideology: Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood
CEP released a new report, the Muslim Brotherhood in the Palestinian Territories. Despite Hamas's attempts to erase its connections to the worldwide Islamist group, Hamas remains indelibly a Muslim Brotherhood institution, as its new policy document...
Press Release
May 4, 2017
Are Tech Companies Doing Enough to Remove Extremist Content?
A new CEP resource compares the terms of service of major Internet companies and social media platforms. CEP found that while most companies’ terms of service prohibit content that promotes terror and violence, the continuing scourge of...
Press Release
May 2, 2017
Hamas Updates Message, but Violent Ideology, Mission Remain Unchanged
CEP said today that cosmetic policy language announced by Hamas does not translate to changes in the group’s violent and extremist ideology. At a Doha, Qatar press conference, Hamas released the policy document, which does not replace its 1988...
Press Release
April 27, 2017
ISIS’s Systematic Brutality Against Religious Communities Continues
As Pope Francis prepares for a peace-building trip to Egypt, CEP released a new report detailing the extent of ISIS’s ongoing campaign of genocidal violence and incendiary rhetoric against Muslims, Yazidis, Christians, and Mandaeans, and other...
Press Release
April 20, 2017
ISIS and Al-Qaeda, Linked by Roots in Muslim Brotherhood, Discuss Alliance
Rivals ISIS and al-Qaeda, are reportedly discussing forging an alliance. Although they split in 2014 and have been competing since, CEP notes that their shared origins in the Muslim Brotherhood and its ideology based on the writings of Sayyid Qutb...
Press Release
April 12, 2017
ISIS Church Bombings Fit Pattern of Targeting Christian, Jewish Sites
The April 9 ISIS bombings at two Coptic Christian churches in Egypt that killed 49 people fit a grisly pattern of extremists targeting Christian and Jewish sites, CEP noted, in releasing its new analysis report, Terror Targets in the West: Where and...
Press Release
April 7, 2017
CEP Condemns Truck Attack in Stockholm, Releases Resource on Vehicles as Terror Weapons
CEP today released a statement in response to a vehicular attack in downtown Stockholm, Sweden, and a new resource on the use of cars and trucks as weapons of terrorism. The resource notes that attacks using vehicles were carried out beginning in...
Press Release
April 4, 2017
New Handbook to Assist German Educators with Radicalisation, Complex Cultural Issues
CEP and the European Foundation for Democracy (EFD), at an event held in Berlin, Germany, today announced the publication of a handbook designed to help German educators understand and properly respond to difficult and sensitive cultural and...
Press Release
April 3, 2017
CEP Condemns Bomb Attack on Russian Metro
CEP strongly condemned today's terror attack carried out on the St. Petersburg Metro that claimed the lives of at least 10 people. The CEP statement read in part, "We must continue to be diligent and relentless in our fight to confront radicalization...
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