On January 18, 2020, ballistic missiles struck a mosque at the al-Estiqbal military camp in Marib, killing at least 116 people in what was reportedly one of the deadliest attacks in Yemen’s civil war. Although there was no immediate claim by the...
The Iranian-sponsored Lebanese terror group Hezbollah has grown militarily and politically despite U.N. resolutions and international agreements demanding its disarmament. In coming parliamentary elections May 6, Hezbollah will attempt to further...
CEP released updated resources on three of Iraq's most powerful Shiite militias, part of a government sanctioned umbrella group that is heavily funded by and beholden to the Islamic Republic of Iran. Several of the groups have fought extensively on...
Iraqi Shiite militias have officially joined the fight to retake Mosul from ISIS, despite calls from groups like Human Rights Watch to ban these abusive militias from participating in the fight for the last remaining major city in Iraq under ISIS...
CEP Senior Advisor Radek Sikorski writes: "On 17 October, the Council of the European Union agreed to a new package of human rights-related sanctions against 11 Iranian individuals and four entities linked to Tehran’s crackdown on protesters and the death of Amini – including Iran’s morality police. It is in this context that there is a need to reflect on how Europe’s narrowly focused pursuit of a nuclear deal (officially called the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, or JCPOA) has prevented it from taking meaningful action against ongoing human rights violations in Iran."
CEP Senior Director Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler on Iranian shelling of Kurdish groups in Iraq's Kurdistan region: "I'm not yet aware that there are major troop movements across the border, which would be something new...This was a warning shot against those Kurdish groups to not to try to cross the border into Iran or not to try to do any attacks inside Iran while the regime deals with the unrest."
"Iran's IRGC accused of launching cross-border attacks in Iraq to quell support for protest movement."
Hans-Jakob Schindler, Sr. Director of the Counter Extremism Project, says the Iranian regime is concerned that the "chaos that this regime created" could spill over into ethnic unrest.
"Hans-Jakob Schindler, Sr. Director of the Counter Extremism Project, says the Iranian regime is concerned that the "chaos that this regime created" could spill over into ethnic unrest."
Since Saturday, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Crops (IRGC) has launched numerous attacks on Iranian Kurdish separatist groups in northern Iraq—the Komala Party of Iranian Kurdistan and the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan. The groups had...
CEP Senior Advisor Ian Acheson writes: "The attempted murder of Salman Rushdie is not shocking. That’s the shocking thing about it. In due course we will see whether, as is alleged, his assailant was acting in conjunction with the Iranian Islamist impulse to attack the apostate – a widening net, knit faster by our own secular fanatics, which drags in and dehumanises anyone who dissents from a fundamentalist worldview."
Extremists: Their Words. Their Actions.
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On November 25, 2021, al-Shabaab carried out a suicide car bombing targeting an African Union Mission to Somalia (AMISOM) convoy as it drove by a school in Mogadishu. The attack left 8 dead and 17 wounded, including teachers and students at Mocaasir Primary and Secondary School.
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