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Extremist Content Online: New ISIS Propaganda Video Found on Multiple Websites, Active Clubs Promote Recent Events and Outreach
(New York, N.Y.) — 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, ISIS released a new propaganda video from the group’s...
Extremism News Roundup
Eye on Extremism: August 15, 2025
Hezbollah raised the spectre of civil war on Friday with a warning there would be "no life" in Lebanon if the government sought to confront or eliminate the Iran-backed group. The government wants to control arms in line with a U.S.-backed plan...
Extremism News Roundup
Eye on Extremism: August 14, 2025
The Yemeni National Resistance, the main military faction fighting against the Houthis, seized 750 tons of weapons smuggled to the terror group by Iran, including chemical weapons, Sky News Arabia reported on Monday. The operation revealed that both...

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State Response Is Backfiring in Burkina Faso, Creating Space for Terror Groups to Thrive—New Report
A new report from the Counter Extremism Project (CEP) assesses Burkina Faso’s status as the deadliest country in the world for terrorist violence—and outlines how the state’s response is making matters worse. The failure to contain these terror...
Extremism News Roundup
Eye on Extremism: August 13, 2025
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is set to name Hamas on the UN's blacklist in his annual report on conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV), an advanced draft copy of the report, as it was distributed to members of the Security Council and seen...
Extremism News Roundup
Eye on Extremism: August 12, 2025
Al-Qaeda’s notorious offshoot in Syria, Hurras al-Din, announced its formal dissolution in January after the fall of the Bashar al-Assad regime. But nearly two years after US airstrikes killed al-Qaeda’s veteran top leader, Ayman al-Zawahiri, in...

CounterPoint Blog
Sahel Monitoring June 2025
This is the second entry in a new series analysing the threat environment in the Sahel region based on the terrorist propaganda output by Jama'a Nusrat ul-Islam wa al-Muslimin (JNIM), the Islamic State West Africa (ISWAP) and the Islamic States Sahel...

CounterPoint Blog
Safe Haven or Staging Ground? The TIP Threat to China and Beyond from Taliban Afghanistan
This blog is the third entry in a five-part series about the Turkistan Islamic Party (TIP), an al Qaeda (AQ)-affiliated, originally Uyghur Islamist terrorist group. Like many AQ affiliates, TIP has sought refuge with the Taliban in their “Islamic...
Extremism News Roundup
Eye on Extremism: August 11, 2025
While there have been vague proclamations by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s military has yet to complete the tactical battle plan. There has been no public confirmation of how long any occupation of the city will last — or when it will...
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