Al-Shabaab Kills 21 And Wounds More Than 100 In 30-Hour Siege Of Mogadishu Hotel

Somali security forces ended a 30-hour assault by al-Shabaab militants on the Hayat Hotel in Mogadishu last weekend that left 21 people dead and 117 wounded. This was the first major attack by the extremist group since Somali President Hassan Sheikh...

"The Union of Good is an umbrella fundraising organization of charities and was designated as a terrorist organization by the US Treasury, in 2008. This is because it is an organization created by Hamas leadership to transfer funds to the terrorist...

Extremist Content Online: Pro-ISIS Tech Group Releases List Of 12 Recommended E-Mail Services

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. Last week the pro-ISIS tech group Qimam Electronic Foundation...

Extremist Content Online: Facebook Edition

The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) reports weekly on the methods used by extremists to exploit Meta-owned Facebook to spread propaganda, recruit followers, and incite violence in order to hold the popular social media platform accountable for its...

"Two years later, he met a man from Eritrea whose father Islamist propaganda, according to the Counter-Extremism Project."

CEP Senior Director Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler on ARTE Deutschland

CEP Senior Director Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler interviewed for story on the cost of terror attacks, how global terrorist networks organize and fund low-cost attacks, and how extremists are using new technology such as cryptocurrency to finance their...

CEP Senior Director Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler discusses the cost of terror attacks, how global terrorist networks organize and fund low-cost attacks, and how extremists are using new technology such as cryptocurrency to finance their activities.

Khomeinism Continues To Influence Radical Islamic Thought

Last Friday, Hadi Matar allegedly stabbed Salman Rushdie while the author was lecturing in western New York. The attack came over 30 years after the Islamic Republic of Iran’s first supreme leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, issued a 1989 fatwa...

"A group of experts gathered by the Counter-Extremism Project believes the number of pro-Ukraine foreign fighters present in-country ranges from 'several hundred… to a few thousand.' Fighters from Eastern Europe and former Soviet republics still seem...

CEP Senior Director Dr. Hans-Jakob Shindler interviewed: "Al-Shabaab is, if not the largest, one of the largest al-Qaeda affiliates around the globe, only rivaled by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham in Syria. And in difference to in Hayat Tahrir al-Sham in Syria...