More ominously, the UN team also said that al-Qaeda had “established new training camps” in multiple Afghan provinces and had established “safe houses” in major cities such as Kabul. Fitton-Brown, the former coordinator of U.N. sanctions on the...

CEP Senior Advisor Ian Acheson quoted: Ian Acheson, a former director of community safety at the Home Office, who previously said such games had become one of the main recruitment tools used by the far right, said the new precautions did not go far...

Eye on Extremism: April 4, 2025

In a rare and perilous public show of anger against Hamas, hundreds of Palestinians marched through Beit Lahia in northern Gaza this week, demanding that the militant group relinquish control of the territory and end the war with Israel, according to...

Eye on Extremism: April 3, 2025

Hamas decided not to respond or engage with Israel's counter-proposal for a ceasefire in Gaza, an official told Reuters on Wednesday, affirming it is committed to the mediators' plan instead.Israel said on March 29 it conveyed to the mediators a...

CEP Senior Director Ian Acheson quoted: Ian Acheson, a former prison governor who also served in the Home Office as the director of community safety, warned that a failure to tackle this issue represented a “national security threat” and could lead...

CEP Senior Advisor Ian Acheson quoted: "Back in 2016 the former prison governor Ian Acheson produced an official review of the threat of Islamist extremism in prisons, probation and youth justice, and the capability of the National Offender...

Eye on Extremism: April 2, 2025

New research shows that Hamas has quietly dropped thousands of deaths from its Gaza war casualty figures. Salo Aizenberg, from the US-based non-profit organisation Honest Reporting, said that Hamas’s March 2025 casualty update had removed thousands...

Eye on Extremism: April 1, 2025

The Civil Guard arrested three people on Tuesday in an international anti-terrorism operation carried out in Barcelona, ​​which also resulted in arrests in the United Kingdom and France. Officers raided the home on Valencia Street in the Sagrada...

"Experts believe the harsh tone from Tehran is primarily a threat to deter Americans and Israelis from attacking their own nuclear facilities. "However, if the Iranians actually attack US bases, this would lead to a massive escalation and a major...

Highlighting CEP-New Zealand Digital Violent Extremism Cooperation

Since 2021, the Counter Extremism Project (CEP) has been working with the Digital Violent Extremism (DVE) team at the New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs (DIA) to report and remove harmful online content related to the March 15, 2019...