CEP Advisory Board Member Nathan Sales quoted: "'Zawahiri’s presence in post-withdrawal Afghanistan suggests that, as feared, the Taliban is once more granting safe haven to the leaders of al-Qaeda — a group with which it has never broken,' said...

CEP Advisory Board Member Nathan Sales quoted: "'We know that Al Qaeda has had operational and leadership figures in Pakistan. We know they also had operational and leadership figures in Iran,' said former coordinator for counterterrorism Nathan A...

CEP Advisory Board Member Nathan Sales quoted: "'Zawahri’s presence in post-withdrawal Afghanistan suggests that, as feared, the Taliban is once more granting safe haven to the leaders of al-Qaida – a group with which it has never broken,' said...

CEP Analysis: What Comes After Zawahiri’s Death

Following the Biden Administration’s announcement Monday of a successful drone strike killing al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri, Counter Extremism Project (CEP) Senior Director and former Coordinator of the United Nations Security Council’s ISIL (Da...

CEP Senior Director Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler radio interview: "Eine Drohne der CIA hat Bin-Laden-Nachfolger Al-Sawahiri in Afghanistan getötet. Nach Ansicht des Terrorismus-Experten Hans-Jakob Schindler bedeutet das aber noch lange nicht das Ende von...

CEP Advisory Board Member Ambassador Nathan Sales: "'Nathan Sales, who previously served as ambassador-at-large and coordinator for counterterrorism, called the strike 'a great counterterrorism success' in an interview with the Washington Examiner...

"At the time of the drone strike, Zawahiri was sitting on the balcony of the house where he was hiding with his family in the center of the Afghan capital of Kabul. The home was owned by Sirajuddin Haqqani, “who is not only the leader of the Haqqani...

Al-Qaeda Leader & Co-Founder Ayman al-Zawahiri Killed In U.S. Drone Strike

President Joe Biden tonight confirmed the death of al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri yesterday in a U.S. drone strike in Kabul, Afghanistan.

Extremist Content Online: CEP Continues To Locate Extremist Content On YouTube

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, CEP researchers found neo-Nazi content on YouTube, including...

He “is not interested in fighting in the mountains. He thinks more internationally“, said of him Hamid Mir, biographer of Bin Laden, quoted by the think tank Counter-Extremism Project (CEP). With him, in fact, “Al-Qaeda has become increasingly...