CEP-KAS Webinar: The Deteriorating Security Situation in West Africa | Dr. Théo Clément

"Interlinkage of Terrorism and Transnational Organized Crime in West Africa" Dr. Théo Clément, Expert on illicit economies and trade based in Nouakchott, Mauritania The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) and the Konrad Adenauer Foundation (KAS) hosted a...

"Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler, Sr. Director of the Counter Extremism Project takes a look at the key question; Are Terror Attacks Looming?"

Eye on Extremism: June 20, 2023

“A recent report by the UN has said the Taliban are once again allowing the terror group Al Qaeda on Afghan soil – one of the original justifications for the US-led invasion of the country, following the group’s September 11, 2001, attacks in New...

Eye on Extremism: June 16, 2023

“U.S. allies in northeastern Syria are intent on prosecuting hundreds of Islamic State foreign fighters for war crimes despite a lack of support from the international community. The Kurdish-led Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria...

"'The [U.N.] monitoring team goes to great lengths to try to triangulate information, and it publishes things that it's reasonably confident of, and that goes through a rigorous editorial process,' Edmund Fitton-Brown, a former senior United Nations...

"Some analysts believe that terrorist financing has flourished because South African authorities have become too comfortable with the absence of any visible Islamic activities in South Africa. “I don’t think South Africa realized that. It was the...

"Bill welcomes back to the show Generation Jihad regular Ambassador Edmund Fitton-Brown. Now a member of the Counter Extremism Project’s advisory board, Edmund previously served as the UK’s Ambassador to Yemen and later as the coordinator of the U.N...

Eye on Extremism: June 15, 2023

“Kurdish militants from the outlawed PKK group said they are ending a unilateral ceasefire they declared after Turkey was hit by a major earthquake earlier this year. The announcement, carried by pro-Kurdish media on Tuesday, threatens to see a...

"On this week’s episode of 'The Hunt with WTOP national security correspondent J.J. Green,' Hans-Jacob Schindler, senior director at the Counter Extremism Project, discusses how propaganda from terror groups works."

"Our team spoke to terrorism expert Gregory Waters, who documents the Islamic State group’s activities for the Counter Extremism Project. Our interview with him has been transcribed below and lightly edited for clarity and length."