Turkish Voters Say No to Erdogan

“Turkey narrowly averted a disaster,” stated the Kurdish People’s Democratic Party (HDP) leader, Selahattin Demirtas after Turkish voters pushed his party past the 10 percent electoral threshold necessary to qualify for seats in the parliament. The...

CEP Resource Details Deadly Career of Extremist Leader Targeted by U.S. Airstrike in Libya

CEP is releasing updated resources on Moktar Belmoktar, the elusive and deadly African extremist leader who was reportedly targeted by a U.S. airstrike in Libya on June 14. Belmoktar was a co-founder al-Queda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM).

Syria Post Assad – No Closer to Pluralism

In the early days of the Syrian rebellion, it was widely assumed that the Assad dictatorship would collapse in short order. The “Arab Spring” had already cast off tyrannies in Tunisia and Egypt. The Ghaddafi regime in Libya would soon join that list...

Global Extremist Registry Update: CEP Adds New Propagandists, Leaders and Terror Financers

CEP is releasing an expanded Global Extermist Registry, a searchable database of the world's most notorious extremist leaders, propagandists and financiers. The expanded Registry and interactive map can be searched by name, by occupation, and by...

The Misssouri State University College of Business Ad Team won first place in the U.S. State Department’s Peer-to-Peer Challenging Extremism program, competing internationally against 21 other universities before emerging as the top finalist. Now the...

CEP Congratulates Missouri State University for Winning Competition to Fight Online Extremism

CEP CEO Ambassador Mark D. Wallace was one of the judges for the first "P2P (Peer to Peer): Challengng Extremism" competition, won by Missouri State University, which bested finalists Curtin University of Perth, Australia and Mount Royal University...

The Charcoal Connection: Illegal Harvests Fuel Terrorism

A June 2014 UN Environment Program (UNEP) report reveals that illegally harvested timber has become a key source of revenue for terror groups. Additionally, the report states that the scale of the illegal timber trade “has been totally underestimated...

CEP Applauds Gambian Government for Expelling Hizballah Funder

CEP applauded the government of Gambia for expelling Lebanese businessman Husayn Tajideen, who provided substantial financial support to violent extremist group Hizballah. Husayn, Ali and Kassim Tajideen have all been sanctioned by the U.S. for...

Muslim Brotherhood Buffeted by Shifting Winds

The Muslim Brotherhood’s Mohamed Morsi rose and fell from power within the space of one year. Elected president of Egypt in June 2012, Morsi was removed from office by the country’s military leaders in July 2013. During this time and in response to...

Iran’s Influence in Iraq: Temporary or Permanent?

The Americans will leave one day, Quds Force commander General Qasem Soleimani once told Iraqi leaders, but Iran will remain Iraq’s neighbor. That lesson has only been reinforced by the lead role Iran has since taken in the fight against ISIS. Iran...