CEP Senior Director Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler speaks with JJ Green about al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri's reemergence in a new propaganda video, which left clues to his whereabouts. Dr. Schindler says this is a significant development.
Earlier this week, the U.S. Department of State condemned the December 3 attack on a civilian bus in Mali that killed 31 individuals and wounded 17 others. Gunmen opened fire on the bus as it was traveling from the village of Songho to a market in...
The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) reports weekly on the methods used by extremists to exploit the Internet and social media platforms to recruit followers and incite violence. Last week, evangelist Bob Larson and neo-Nazi James Mason had a live...
Following the October 15 murder of U.K. Member of Parliament David Amess by a man believed to have radical Islamist motivations, Counter Extremism Project (CEP) Strategic Advisor Liam Duffy published an op-ed in The Telegraph about an act of violence...
The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) reports weekly on the methods used by extremists to exploit the Internet and social media platforms to recruit followers and incite violence. This week, CEP researchers identified two al-Qaeda propaganda videos, a...
On September 11, 2001, al-Qaeda terrorists killed 2,977 people in coordinated attacks on U.S. soil. In the attacks, which were orchestrated by Osama bin Laden, 19 men hijacked four commercial airplanes, deliberately crashing two of the planes into...
From the time President Joe Biden announced the date of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, the Taliban marched across the country, taking city after city with the brutal efficiency of a wildfire. On August 6 , the Taliban took control of its first...
This year marks the 10th anniversary of the horrific attacks in Oslo and the island of Utøya in Norway. These attacks perpetrated by a violent right-wing terrorist had long lasting and profound impacts on Norway as well as the transnational violent...
Following the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan, major tech companies are allegedly facing a dilemma about how to moderate the terror group’s online presence. At issue is whether to recognize a transfer of power to the group in the war-torn country...
The Taliban’s return to power in Afghanistan is stoking renewed fear of a resurgence in terrorism from al-Qaeda and other jihadi groups. Al-Qaeda has long pledged allegiance to the Taliban, which provided sanctuary to the terror group before and...
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