“Fortunately, Farid is thinking about some of society’s most menacing issues.“Hany is creative, unrelenting and above all, a problem-solver,” said Mark Wallace, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and current CEO of the Counter Extremism...

Documents Reaffirm Awlaki’s Role in Radicalizing “Underwear Bomber” Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab

F.B.I. interviews with attempted airplane suicide bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, detailed by the New York Times , document the direct role played by U.S.-born cleric and al-Qaeda propagandist Anwar al-Awlaki in planning and directing the plot. CEP...

Governments across Europe have accidentally paid taxpayer-funded welfare benefits such as unemployment funds, disability pensions and housing allowances to Islamic State militants who have used the money to wage war in Iraq and Syria, authorities and...

Islamic State group fighters are funding their jihad with taxpayer-funded welfare benefits from European Union governments. In France, officials said they will no longer give welfare to the hundreds of citizens who have joined ISIS in Syria. France...

There are essentially three ways terrorists can be stopped from committing violent acts across the world. They can be killed with drones and other targeted attacks, prevented from accessing materials leading to radicalisation via the internet or they...

CEP President Fran Townsend joins "CBS This Morning" to discuss President Trump's revised travel ban and his newly appointed National Security Adviser, Lt. Gen. H. R. McMaster.

CEP Spokesperson Tara Maller discusses what may be different in the expected new Pentagon plan for fighting ISIS. Maller said the coming plan should also address fighting ISIS online, including getting Internet and social media companies to take down...

CEP Spokesperson Tara Maller discusses leaks of classified information and other national security topics with Connell McShane on the Imus in The Morning program.

CEP Spokesperson Tara Maller discusses possible replacements for National Security Adviser General Michael Flynn, who resigned from his post.

CEP Report Tracks IRGC Role in Iranian Economy, Links to Terrorist Groups

Congress and the Trump Administration are considering options to deter further illegal Iranian ballistic missile testing and regional aggression, including designating the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps a Foreign Terrorist Organization. In light...