"The 47-year-old has been seen for the first time in five years in a new video released by ISIS to prove that he is still alive. Some say he was already a militant when the US and its allies invaded Iraq. Baghdadi founded the Jamaat Jaysh Ahl al...

"According to reports, President Donald Trump met with staunchly anti-Islamist Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi earlier this month and is now working to formally deem the Muslim Brotherhood — the international Islamist group that serves as the...

CEP Senior Director Hans Jakob Schindler discusses the continued importance of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. "His sole role now is to be the focal point, the symbol of the Islamic State."

"The Australian leader of an Islamist political group campaigning for Sharia law and a caliphate has been freed from jail in Jordan, his followers have said. Ismail Alwahwah (Abu Anas) has been released from prison in Jordan today after serving a one...

Tech & Terrorism: Facebook & Twitter Revenues Balloon Despite Non-Stop Controversies

This week, Facebook and Twitter reported astronomic increases in revenue. Facebook’s year-over-year first quarter revenue increased more than 25 percent to $15.1 billion and Twitter’s increased nearly 20 percent to $787 million . Contrary to what...

"New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and French president Emmanuel Macron will meet next month to try and eliminate violent extremist content online in the wake of the March 15 terrorist attacks in Christchurch New Zealand, said a press release...

CEP Releases First of Nine-Part Online Extremism Video Series Featuring Dr. Hany Farid

CEP tod ay released the first of a nine-part video series featuring CEP Senior Advisor Dr. Hany Farid , the Albert Bradley 1915 Third Century Professor of Computer Science at Dartmouth College and incoming School of Information and EECS professor at...

Smart Regulation and Smart Technology

CEP and the UN Office of Counter Terrorism will have a brown bag lunch and roundtable discussion on April 25 from 1-2:30 hosted by the Permanent Mission of the Federal Republic of Germany to the UN. The topic of the free event will be the regulatory...

Intro: Dr. Farid Introduces Nine-Part Video Series on Online Extremism

In part one of a nine-part video series, CEP Senior Advisor Dr. Hany Farid, the Albert Bradley 1915 Third Century Professor of Computer Science at Dartmouth College and incoming School of Information and EECS professor at UC Berkeley, introduces the...

At least 350 people were killed and more than 500 were wounded in the Easter Sunday terror attacks in Sri Lanka. CEP Senior Director Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler, joins host J.J. Green to discuss ISIS's role in helping local extremist groups plan and...