"An exchange that took place on Turkish soil. […] Germany's willingness – according to DW – to release Vadim Krashikov (a former Russian security service (FSB) officer convicted of murdering a Chechen ex-Georgian officer in Berlin in 2019) and Turkey...

CEP Senior Advisor Ian Acheson writes: "Merseyside police were very keen to rule out the Southport attack as ‘terrorism-related’. This was despite subsequent remarks from the Home Office that counter-terrorism police were still assisting the...

"'It’s not going to be too long before we find the Milosevic in the country.' People feel that the Government doesn’t speak for them anymore and this could push them to the far-right, says Ian Acheson, former Home Office director of community safety...

Ten Years on from the Yazidi Genocide: Victims of Kidnapping and Enslavement Still Await Justice

Tomorrow marks ten years since ISIS launched an assault on the Yazidi religious minority in the town of Sinjar in northern Iraq—the beginning of a sustained campaign of oppression and violence carried out by ISIS against the Yazidi community.

CEP Senior Advisor Ian Acheson writes: "I s there any point in rehabilitating prisoners sentenced to ‘whole life’ tariffs, who will die in custody? Today’s announcement banning such prisoners from a fundamental human right – to get married – would...

"Former prison governor Prof Ian Acheson, now a specialist at the Counter Extremism Project think tank, told The National the events show the need for stricter regulation of social media."

"The Counter Extremism Project says the goal of Active Clubs is 'to build a shadow militia while evading law enforcement scrutiny'. 'Active Clubs pretend to have deradicalised and to only focus on sports and brotherhood,' the project's Alexander...

CounterPoint Brief: Death of Hamas Commander Mohammed Deif

Today, nearly three weeks after an air-strike targeting senior Hamas leaders in the vicinity of Khan Younis, Gaza—and in the wake of a slew of assassinations and deaths of top Hamas and Hezbollah leaders including Ismail Haniyeh and Fuad Shukr—the...

"Would Israel's missile defense system 'Iron Dome' withstand an attack from different fronts? 'The 'Iron Dome' offers sufficient protection in the current situation, but in the event of a broad confrontation with Hezbollah, the system would very...

CEP Statement on Killing of Hamas Leader Haniyeh

Today, Counter Extremism Project (CEP) Chief Executive Officer Ambassador Mark D. Wallace and CEP President Frances F. Townsend released the following statement regarding the death in Tehran of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh: