“The man who plowed through Bourbon Street on New Year’s Day with an ISIS flag on his truck was closely following the terror group’s playbook, promoted in English language magazines and online content circulated globally in an attempt to inspire lone...

""Terrorism is essentially communications," said Hans-Jacob Schindler, a former United Nations diplomat who is a senior director of the Counter Extremist Project, a think-tank with offices in New York and Berlin. "It is not warfare because obviously...

Artificial Intelligence and Extremism: “Cybertruck Bomber”

The case involving Matthew Livelsberger, a former U.S. Army Green Beret, who used a Tesla Cybertruck to execute an explosion outside the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas, has brought broader public attention to the intersection of artificial...

“... The TIP is "still officially part of the global al-Qaida network and, unlike HTS, has never distanced itself from al-Qaida," explains terrorism expert Hans-Jakob Schindler of the Counter Extremism Project. "The fact that HTS accepts the TIP in...

The Muslim Brotherhood in Britain: Analysis of Recent Sanctions

Last week, the United Arab Emirates government issued what was likely a routine communiqué sanctioning various individuals and organisations it alleges belong to the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) – a proscribed terrorist organisation in the Emirates. While...

CEP Senior Advisor Ian Acheson writes: "On Thursday, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) announced that it had added 19 individuals and entities to its “Local Terrorist List” for their links to the Muslim Brotherhood, according to reports by local media...

"Ian Acheson, a senior adviser to the Counter Extremism Project, a think tank, said the eight organisations were not breaking any British laws as the UK had not proscribed the Muslim Brotherhood even though it is banned in some countries including...

" The newsletter bulletin, obtained by the Counter Extremism Project, a terrorism watchdog, appeared to mock the American news media for “holding its breath” while waiting for ISIS to claim the attack... “Unlike other attacks in the past, where ISIS...

Eye on Extremism: January 10, 2025

“Saudi Arabia and other Arab states are jockeying for influence with Syria’s Islamist government, hoping to gain an advantage on rivals in the strategically positioned country despite misgivings about the jihadist past of its new leaders. The kingdom...

"A translation of ISIS’s Al-Naba newsletter provided by the Counter Extremism Project shows ISIS wrote a wide-ranging piece on the attack. The piece said Jabbar had been influenced by its discourse and propaganda, noting the costs of the attack were...