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On April 3, 2017, the day Vladimir Putin was due to visit the city, a suicide bombing was carried out in the St. Petersburg metro, killing 15 people and injuring 64. An al-Qaeda affiliate, Imam Shamil Battalion, claimed responsibility.
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CEP Senior Director Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler quoted referenced: "Più che parlare di post-Daesh, si evoca un nuovo Daesh con una riorganizzazione del movimento jihadista, tra il ridispiegamento di El e gli appelli di al-Qaida a colpire l’Occidente...
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Earlier this week, the U.S. Department of State condemned the December 3 attack on a civilian bus in Mali that killed 31 individuals and wounded 17 others. Gunmen opened fire on the bus as it was traveling from the village of Songho to a market in...
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CEP Senior Director Hans-Jakob Schindler interviewed: "There was a massive problem for many years already of sleeper cells of the Taliban inside the Kabul former government administration as well as the security forces...What is unusual is the extent...
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CEP Senior Director Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler quoted: "Ancien expert des Nations unies et directeur du Counter Extremism Project, Hans-Jakob Schindler souligne la capacité de projection de l’État islamique au Khorasan (EIK), branche afghane de Daech...
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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, evangelist Bob Larson and neo-Nazi James Mason had a live...
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Recent media reports allege that disunity among the Permanent Five (P5) members of the UN Security Council has led Russia to block appointments of experts to UN sanctions monitoring panels, threatening a new Cold War style-stalemate. These technical...
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CEP Senior Director Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler participated in a webinar hosted by the Stimson Center exploring the UN sanctions system and the influential role of the E10.
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CEP Advisory Board member and member of European Parliament Radek Sikorski writes: "Closer to home, the resurgence of the Taliban and its affiliates poses serious security threats to Europe. The EU must be ready for an upgrade of its terror alert...
CounterPoint Blog
Following is the November 2021 installment of “ISIS Redux: The Central Syria Insurgency,” a monthly chronicle of attacks by the terrorist group ISIS in central Syria. Previous editions of ISIS Redux can be viewed through the following links: October...
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On November 19, the U.S. Department of Justice announced that Elvis Redzepagic was sentenced to more than 16 years in prison for “attempting to provide material support and resources to the designated foreign terrorist organizations the Islamic State...
Extremists: Their Words. Their Actions.
Fact:
On April 3, 2017, the day Vladimir Putin was due to visit the city, a suicide bombing was carried out in the St. Petersburg metro, killing 15 people and injuring 64. An al-Qaeda affiliate, Imam Shamil Battalion, claimed responsibility.
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