CEP Senior Director Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler spoke with RTL Nachtjournal about the closure of schools in the western German city of Duisburg following right-wing extremist threats.

Eye on Extremism: April 7, 2025

Plans for a new national police body to lead the fight against terrorism and serious organised crime are being drawn up, as UK police chiefs consider the biggest overhaul of policing since the 1960s. Under the proposals, counter-terrorism policing...

Extremist Content Online: Neo-Nazi Accelerationist Group The Base Calls for Attacks on Ukrainian Government Personnel; ISIS-K-Linked Media Group Claims Monero Support Can Purchase Weapons

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 a new project announced by the neo-Nazi...

CEP Nonresident Fellow Ari Heistein writes: "Despite rumors of high-level assassinations and the destruction of secret facilities, it is too early to declare the American campaign in Yemen a success. Still, there is reason to believe the Houthis have...

More ominously, the UN team also said that al-Qaeda had “established new training camps” in multiple Afghan provinces and had established “safe houses” in major cities such as Kabul. Fitton-Brown, the former coordinator of U.N. sanctions on the...

CEP Senior Advisor Ian Acheson quoted: Ian Acheson, a former director of community safety at the Home Office, who previously said such games had become one of the main recruitment tools used by the far right, said the new precautions did not go far...

Eye on Extremism: April 4, 2025

In a rare and perilous public show of anger against Hamas, hundreds of Palestinians marched through Beit Lahia in northern Gaza this week, demanding that the militant group relinquish control of the territory and end the war with Israel, according to...

Eye on Extremism: April 3, 2025

Hamas decided not to respond or engage with Israel's counter-proposal for a ceasefire in Gaza, an official told Reuters on Wednesday, affirming it is committed to the mediators' plan instead.Israel said on March 29 it conveyed to the mediators a...

CEP Senior Director Ian Acheson quoted: Ian Acheson, a former prison governor who also served in the Home Office as the director of community safety, warned that a failure to tackle this issue represented a “national security threat” and could lead...

CEP Senior Advisor Ian Acheson quoted: "Back in 2016 the former prison governor Ian Acheson produced an official review of the threat of Islamist extremism in prisons, probation and youth justice, and the capability of the National Offender...