After the tragic events of September 11, 2001, Americans collectively searched for answers about who was behind the terror attack and why it occurred. While Osama bin Laden will forever be known as the mastermind of the tragedy, Iran’s role in the...

Remembering the September 11 Attacks

CEP issued a statement today honoring the September 11 victims, which read in part: "While much has changed in the years since 19 hijackers deliberately crashed four jetliners in a deadly plot against the United States, the challenges posed by...

Give UNIFIL Some Teeth

The U.N. Security Council recently renewed the mandate of the U.N. Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), the international peacekeeping force that has been present in Lebanon since 1978. Under pressure from the United States, the Security Council...

A commander in the Shiiite battalion, also known as Kata’ib Hezbollah (KH) and the largest and most ruthless Iranian-trained militia fighting in Iraq and Syria, warned Americans on Sunday that they must leave Iraq or face a new war, Iran’s Fars News...

The latest wave of terror attacks across Europe has drawn the spotlight on popular platforms being used as a recruiting tool for groups like Daesh to spread their message of hate and recruit young extremists with increasingly sophisticated narratives...

CEP Advisory Board Member and former British Ambassador to Ireland Sir Ivor Roberts discusses the radicalisation and the risk of an ISIS directed terror attack taking place in Ireland, on the Today programme of RTE Radio 1.

The Violent Legacy of Sayyid Qutb

The world’s most dangerous terror groups, including ISIS and al-Qaeda, share a common ideological foundation in the writings and teachings of Egyptian author and Muslim Brotherhood ideologue Sayyid Qutb. More than 50 years after his death, Qutbism...

CEP Research Director Julie Shain on i24NEWS

CEP Research Director Julie Shain discusses the 12 person terror cell that carried out attacks in Barcelona and seaside resort.

The sickening events in Catalonia in the last few days are the latest iteration of a pattern of low-tech jihadist terrorist activity involving the use of vehicles to kill and maim the maximum number of 'infidels'. According to international NGO the...

CEP Spokesperson Tara Maller on MSNBC

CEP Spokesperson and Senior Policy Advisor Tara Maller on MSNBC to discuss knife attack in Turku, Finland.