Today, the Counter Extremism Project (CEP) released the fifth and final installment in its report series on the Iranian-backed Shiite Muslim armed religious and political movement, the Houthis. The new report focuses on the systematic abuse of Yemeni...
Today, 25 years since the U.S. enactment of the International Religious Freedom Act, the Counter Extremism Project (CEP) released the fourth installment in a series of new reports on the Iran-backed Shiite group, the Houthis, who took control of...
At the beginning of this month, Houthi rebels took responsibility for three rocket and drone attacks aimed at Israel “in support of their oppressed brothers in Palestine,” according to Houthi spokesperson Brigadier General Yahya Saree. The common...
Today, CEP released the second installment in a series of new reports on the Iran-backed Shiite group, the Houthis, who took control of Yemen’s capital city of Sanaa in 2014 and plunged the Arabian Gulf nation into a devastating civil war. This...
Today, on the ninth anniversary of the Houthis taking control of Yemen’s capital, Sanaa, the Counter Extremism Project (CEP) published the first report in a series exploring the activities of the Iranian-backed Shiite Muslim armed religious and...
The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) has consistently called for clear guidelines from tech companies to target and remove the “worst of the worst” terrorist and extremist material on their platforms. One clause within Twitter’s terms of service...
Last week, Iran-backed Houthi militants in Yemen targeted a Saudi Aramco oil facility in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, days after Houthi rockets previously targeted the Jeddah facility and other locations in Saudi Arabia. While the attacks have caused...
Last February, the Biden Administration revoked the Trump-era designation in the hopes of reducing violence and easing the humanitarian crisis in Yemen. However, since removing the Houthis from the list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs)...
Counter Extremism Project (CEP) CEO Ambassador Mark D. Wallace, CEP President Frances F. Townsend, and CEP Senior Advisor Norman T. Roule released the following joint statement today in response to the drone terror attacks in Abu Dhabi perpetrated by...
On Sunday, Houthi rebels in Yemen fired ballistic missiles into the strategically important city of Marib, killing two children and wounding more than 30 people. The attack is a continuation of the Houthis’ months-long assault on Marib, the last...
Extremists: Their Words. Their Actions.
In Their Own Words:
We reiterate once again that the brigades will directly target US bases across the region in case the US enemy commits a folly and decides to strike our resistance fighters and their camps [in Iraq].
Abu Ali al-Askari, Kata’ib Hezbollah (KH) Security Official Mar. 2023Get the latest news on extremism and counter-extremism delivered to your inbox.