ince the defeat of the so-called Islamic State in Syria and Iraq (ISIS), thousands of men, women, and children with alleged links to the “caliphate” remain detained in Kurdish-administered camps and detention centers in Northeastern Syria. While some...
CEP Senior Research Analyst Sofia Koller interviewed regarding ISIS, women and children in Syria, and returnees.
During the past decade and a half, extremist non-state actors in Russia have become a central element of the violent transnational right-wing extremist milieu. The Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2014 and particularly its re-invasion of the country in...
"Joshua Fisher-Birch, an analyst of the extreme right for the Counter Extremism Project, has kept tabs on rightwing extremists and their fascination with Ukraine.
'Chatter among the American online extreme right regarding travel to Ukraine to fight against the Russian invasion has decreased in the last year,' he said, pointing out that in some cases talk about venturing to the war was 'either never serious' or a blatant 'attempt to raise money through crowdfunding, or was abandoned due to the brutal reality of the conflict or no longer seeing a goal for the American movement'."
CEP Senior Research Analyst Sofia Koller policy paper on prosecution of returnees in France and CEP report on ISIS's persecution of gay people quoted: "The IIIM’s mandate to only support requests for evidence related to core international crimes has prompted more States to explore such crimes alongside their terrorist cases...
ISIL further capitalized on preexisting homophobia to establish and institutionalize its persecution of gay men."
"Kacper Rekawek, a nonresident research fellow at the Counter Extremism Project who is familiar with documents between the Ukrainian military and foreign fighters, said that the legion contract appears to be real."
A new Counter Extremism Project (CEP) report authored by CEP non-resident fellow Dr. Kacper Rekawek, A Year Of Foreign Fighting For Ukraine, analyzes how the war is being fought, who is fighting, and what challenges governments must contend with as...
"Internal documents show that the Legion is struggling. Recruitment has stagnated. The Washington-based Counter Extremism Project wrote in March that the Legion and affiliated groups 'continue to feature individuals widely seen as unfit to perform their duties.'"
CEP report A Year Of Foreign Fighting For Ukraine referenced in Belgian news: "Ukra En het Counter Extremism Project in Washington schreef in maart nog dat het Legioen en gelieerde groepen "'personen blijven aantrekken die algemeen beschouwd worden als ongeschikt om hun taken uit te voeren.'"
"Internal documents show that the Legion is struggling. Recruitment has stagnated. The Washington-based Counter Extremism Project wrote in March that the Legion and affiliated groups 'continue to feature individuals widely seen as unfit to perform their duties.'"
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