Extremist Content Online: Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula Encourages Lone-Actor Attacks, Extreme Right Telegram Channel Advocates for Active Club and Patriot Front Members to Participate in Bare-Knuckle Fighting League

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 located posts by Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP)...

Eye on Extremism: May 5, 2025

Israel is set to retaliate to the Houthi missile launch at Ben-Gurion Airport on Sunday, following a decision made at the security cabinet later in the day. Following the Houthi missile strike, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a video that...

The German security authorities repeatedly stated that many of these women did not want to return to Germany. However, a paper by researcher Sofia Koller from the international non-profit organization "Counter Extremism Project" from February 2024...

CounterPoint Brief: The Attack in Indian Kashmir Draws Attention to a Decades-Long Conflict

A terrorist attack last week outside the resort town of Pahalgam in Indian Kashmir reignited an ongoing conflict between India and Pakistan, two nuclear powers who have fought four wars (in 1948, 1965, 1971, and 1999) and had consistently rancorous...

CounterPoint Brief: The Attack in Indian Kashmir Draws Attention to a Decades-Long Conflict

A terrorist attack last week outside the resort town of Pahalgam in Indian Kashmir reignited an ongoing conflict between India and Pakistan, two nuclear powers who have fought four wars (in 1948, 1965, 1971, and 1999) and had consistently rancorous...

Hans-Jakob Schindler classifies these groups as extremely dangerous: "Firstly, the network poses a danger because there is a network of violence-oriented individuals. At some point, it will become difficult for the security authorities to monitor...

Eye on Extremism: May 2, 2025

Germany's spy agency on Friday classified the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) as "extremist", enabling it to step up monitoring of the country's biggest opposition party, which decried the move as a "blow against democracy". A 1,100-page...

Eye on Extremism: May 1, 2025

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio called senior officials in India and Pakistan in an effort to defuse the crisis that followed last week’s deadly attack in Kashmir, the State Department said. Rubio urged Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif...

Eye on Extremism: April 30, 2025

Israel’s latest airstrike on what it called a Hezbollah missile storage facility in Beirut’s southern suburbs came during increasing pressure for the Lebanese militant group to disarm. The disarmament of what has been the region’s most powerful non...

CEP Senior Research Analyst Sofia Koller interviewed: "Is the reintegration of women who have turned their backs on the terrorist organization IS successful? Exit programs show that the willingness to change is high. Yet Islamists continue to attempt...