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ISIS Women in Court: Nadine K. – Time to Reflect?

The women who left Germany to join ISIS and returned are standing trial. This CEP blog series follows the trials of some of these female returnees. The discussions on Monika K., Nadine K., and Marcia M. can be found here , here , and here . An...

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June 29, 2023

CEP-KAS Webinar: The Taliban’s Takeover in Afghanistan – Effects on Global Terrorism | Sofia Koller

Should I Go Or Should I Stay: Foreign Terrorist Fighter Mobilization After The Taliban’s Takeover In Afghanistan Sofia Koller Senior Research Analyst, Counter Extremism Project (CEP) The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) and the Konrad Adenauer...

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June 29, 2023

CEP-KAS Webinar: The Taliban’s Takeover in Afghanistan | Dr. Guido Steinberg

Taliban Regime: Effects On Global Terrorist Organizations Dr. Guido Steinberg Senior Fellow at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP)), Member of the CEP Advisory Board The Counter...

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June 29, 2023

CEP-KAS Webinar: The Taliban’s Takeover in Afghanistan | Ambassador Edmund Fitton-Brown

Discussant: Ambassador Edmund Fitton-Brown Former Coordinator of the ISIL, Al-Qaeda and Taliban Monitoring Team of the United Nations Security Council, Member of the CEP Advisory Board The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) and the Konrad Adenauer...

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June 29, 2023

CEP Senior Advisor Ian Acheson writes: "There has been excitable, not to say sometimes unhinged, reporting around the introduction of draft legislation to require private venues to toughen their defences against the threat of bombers and marauding...

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June 27, 2023

"The far-right Alternative for Germany party (AfD) made a historic breakthrough when it won a district election on Sunday thanks to an “unfortunate intersection” of flashpoints over immigration and the Ukraine war coinciding with the vote, extremism...

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June 26, 2023

Extremist Content Online: Pro-ISIS Online Chat Promotes Monero Cryptocurrency To Fund Propaganda Operations

The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) reports weekly on the methods used by extremists to exploit the Internet and social media platforms to recruit followers and incite violence. On June 16 and June 21, CEP researchers identified posts in a pro-ISIS...

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June 26, 2023

"Hans-Jakob Schindler, senior director of the Counter Extremism Project, presented the latest trends in the Taliban’s relations with transnational narcotics syndicates, showing how heroin and methamphetamines produced in Afghanistan are smuggled...

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June 25, 2023

"For several years now, law enforcement and researchers have been monitoring racially and ethnically motivated violent white supremacist groups and their growing fascination with our country's power grid. Many in these groups are 'accelerationists,'...

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June 23, 2023

CEP Webinar: Comparing The Financial Strategies Of Right-Wing Extremist Organizations And Actors In The United Kingdom And Germany

The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) invites you to a webinar on Wednesday, July 5, 2023, focusing on the presentation of a new, in-depth CEP study concerning the financial strategies of right-wing extremist actors in the United Kingdom and Germany...