Badges of Deceit: Why Police Impersonation is a Growing National Security Risk

Police impersonation isn’t new. From ISIS fighters and white supremacists to lone attackers, extremists have exploited the trust that a badge commands to bypass barriers and commit violence long before last month’s assassination of Minnesota House of...

Eye on Extremism: July 14, 2025

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday called for full support of the disarmament of Kurdish militants that began with a handover of the first batch of weapons by Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) forces, a step he said opened a new page for the...

Edmund Fitton Brown, the UK's Ambassador to Yemen between 2015 and 2017, told MailOnline that before the war, it was common for young girls, 'often below the age of 10', to be married to men many decades older than them. He said he recalled hearing...

The Russian Imperial Movement, according to the Counter Extremism Project, is a “a fascist group based in St. Petersburg, Russia, that seeks to create a ‘mono-ethnic state’ led by a ‘Russian autocratic monarchy…’” It is “best known for having members...

“The reality is that the Houthis can’t be defeated from the air alone.” Trump’s best bet to defeat the Houthis means supporting the anti-Houthi forces in Yemen, says former British ambassador to Yemen Edmund Fitton Brown.

CEP Senior Research Analyst Sofia Koller interviewed regarding ISIS, women and children in Syria, and returnees.

Eye on Extremism: July 11, 2025

United Nations sanctions monitors have seen no "active ties" this year between Al Qaeda and the Islamist group leading Syria's interim government, an unpublished U.N. report said, a finding that could strengthen an expected U.S. push for removing U.N...

The active clubs are part of a larger international far-right movement, focusing on strength training and martial arts. The concept has spread quickly and is now present in at least 20 countries with over 100 groups globally and in most US states...

Eye on Extremism: July 10, 2025

A new report by United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI) is urging the U.S. government to impose sanctions on senior Iranian clerics and regime-controlled institutions that have issued or promoted Islamic legal rulings — known as fatwas — calling for the...

The Counter Extremism Project describes the Animal Liberation Front as "a far-left extremist group focused on animal rights" that was formed in the 1970s in the United Kingdom. It now operates in 40 countries and has "claimed responsibility for arson...