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Press Release

August 18, 2025

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

August 15, 2025

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

August 14, 2025

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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Press Release

August 14, 2025

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

August 13, 2025

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...

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August 13, 2025

For the first time in modern history, far-right and populist parties are simultaneously topping the polls in Europe’s three main economies of Germany, France and Britain. […] More recent societal stressors such as the coronavirus pandemic and war in...

Extremism News Roundup

August 12, 2025

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...

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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...

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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

August 11, 2025

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...