Eye on Extremism: January 13, 2025

“In October, we traveled to the Cabo Delgado Province in northern Mozambique to understand how terrorists who claim an affiliation with the Islamic State have gained a foothold and wreaked havoc on Muslims and Christians alike. Officials in the...

Artificial Intelligence and Extremism: “Cybertruck Bomber”

The case involving Matthew Livelsberger, a former U.S. Army Green Beret, who used a Tesla Cybertruck to execute an explosion outside the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas, has brought broader public attention to the intersection of artificial...

The Muslim Brotherhood in Britain: Analysis of Recent Sanctions

Last week, the United Arab Emirates government issued what was likely a routine communiqué sanctioning various individuals and organisations it alleges belong to the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) – a proscribed terrorist organisation in the Emirates. While...

Eye on Extremism: January 10, 2025

“Saudi Arabia and other Arab states are jockeying for influence with Syria’s Islamist government, hoping to gain an advantage on rivals in the strategically positioned country despite misgivings about the jihadist past of its new leaders. The kingdom...

"A translation of ISIS’s Al-Naba newsletter provided by the Counter Extremism Project shows ISIS wrote a wide-ranging piece on the attack. The piece said Jabbar had been influenced by its discourse and propaganda, noting the costs of the attack were...

"The Counter Extremism Project, pointed out that The Base is “influenced by the race war called for in the book Siege by neo-Nazi James Mason.” The group claims it trains it members for a ‘hypothetical time in the future when law & order breaks down...

Eye on Extremism: January 9, 2025

“Three Palestinians were killed, including two children, in an Israeli airstrike in the West Bank on Wednesday, Palestinian officials said, as arrests, raids and strikes continued across the occupied territory in the wake of an attack that killed...

"The group emerged in England in 1987 from the skinhead music scene, according to The Counter Extremism Project (CEP), a non-profit policy organisation working to combat extremist ideologies. Founded by Ian Stuart Donaldson, who died in a 1993 car...

“Britain on Wednesday froze the assets of international neo-Nazi group Blood and Honour, the first use of the UK's counter-terrorism sanctions to target a far-right entity. The finance ministry said it had "reasonable grounds" to suspect that Blood...

“... Terrorism expert Hans-Jakob Schindler from the Counter Extremism Project also sees a growing danger from IS terror for Europe and Germany . However, a special fund alone will not provide a solution, Schindler warned in an interview with the...