"That being said, we must guard against those in senior positions who say that it is inevitable people like Abedi will fall through the net. That rather depends on the strength of net. This report sets out clear failings in the handling of...

ISIS Redux: The Central Syria Insurgency in February 2023

Following is the February 2023 installment of “ISIS Redux: The Central Syria Insurgency,” a monthly chronicle of attacks by the terrorist group ISIS in central Syria. A review of developments throughout 2022 and 2021 can be found here and here . The...

Tech & Terrorism: Twitter Accepts More Payments From Prominent Islamists Designated By U.S., U.N.

The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) this week identified a verified account which appears to belong to Maysar Ali al-Juburi, a U.S. Specially Designated National, suggesting that Twitter has again accepted payment from an individual prohibited by the...

New Report Reveals That The Illegal Wildlife Trade Is Resurging Post-Pandemic

By failing to tackle illegal wildlife trafficking, the world is missing a critical opportunity to prevent the future spread of zoonotic disease, halt a man-made mass extinction of wildlife, and starve organized criminal and extremist groups of a $23...

CEP Strategic Advisor Liam Duffy: "It’s a question both implicit and explicit in much of the coverage since the night of 22nd May 2017. It’s a question explored by Sir John Saunders in his Manchester Arena bombing inquiry, published yesterday. The...

"A new U.S. report said following the collapse of Afghanistan, the Taliban acquired a national database of biometric information. The report from the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction said that the Taliban are using it to track...

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

On February 28, 2023, the Counter Extremism Project (CEP) and the Konrad Adenauer Foundation (KAS) hosted a webinar focusing on the reemerging security risks emanating from Afghanistan. EVENT PROGRAM: Presentations: Iran Facing Two Taliban: Iran...

"Joshua Fisher-Birch, an analyst with the Counter Extremism Project, described the network as an 'extremely antisemitic street theater troupe,"' whose primary goal is generating as much attention as possible, no matter the damage to their targets....

CEP Strategic Advisor Ian Acheson writes: "With each new blasphemy controversy in the West, from The Satanic Verses to Charlie Hebdo, the corrosive effect on free expression worsens. In Wakefield, we see just how low the bar for blasphemy allegations...

CEP Impact: Neo-Nazi Publisher’s Website Disabled

Action by the Counter Extremism Project (CEP) has resulted in the e-commerce platform BigCommerce canceling services to a neo-Nazi publisher that takes its name from the Ku Klux Klan. The publisher had been using BigCommerce as its name server and...