Extremist Content Online: Pro-ISIS Accounts, Including Accounts Sharing Bomb Making Instructions, Found on TikTok, Extreme Right Telegram Users Promote Antisemitism Following Minnesota Catholic School Shooting

The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) reports weekly on the methods used by extremists and terrorist groups on the Internet to spread propaganda and incite violence. Last week, CEP researchers found 12 pro-ISIS accounts on TikTok, including nine...

Counter Extremism Project Senior Director Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler interviewed regarding Russian GPS jamming operations in Europe.

This has also affected the militia's financial basis in Lebanon, says security expert and terrorism researcher Hans Jakob Schindler. "Although these sources of income are of significant importance to the terrorist group, it is not facing financial...

Russian drones are increasingly appearing over German military bases and the routes of arms transports to Ukraine. The media report systematic espionage. Germany is said to be inadequately prepared for the resulting dangers. In an interview with...

Eye on Extremism: August 29, 2025

The prime minister of the Iran-backed Houthi group in Yemen was reportedly killed during Israel’s airstrikes on Thursday in the capital city of Sanaa. Yemen’s Al-Jumhuriya channel and the Aden Al-Ghad newspaper reported that Houthi prime minister...

Iran is trying to defend itself against possible upcoming UN sanctions. The move by Germany, France, and Great Britain to reinstate these sanctions within 30 days is illegal, according to Tehran. Iran expert [Counter Extremism Project Senior Director...

Eye on Extremism: August 28, 2025

An assailant armed with three guns fired through stained-glass windows into a Catholic church where parish school students were attending Mass on Wednesday, killing two children and wounding 17 other people, officials said. The shooting ended when...

Wagner May be Out, but Russia remains “In” with Mali

On June 6, 2025, the notorious Russia-backed Wagner Group announced their imminent withdrawal from Mali. Operating in the Sahelian country for three and a half years, the private military company (PMC) has faced its fair share of criticism from the...

The Other Russia of E.V. Limonov is an unregistered party founded in 2010 by Eduard Limonov. According to the Counter Extremism Project, the party subscribes to National Bolshevism and promotes the occupation of territories inhabited by Russian...

Oslo, Waziristan, Ürümqi – TIP Uyghur Terrorism in a Global Perspective

This blog is the fourth entry in a five-part series about the Turkistan Islamic Party (TIP), an al Qaeda (AQ)-affiliated, originally Uyghur, Islamist terrorist group. Over the course of its history, TIP has gained an increasingly transnational, even...