In a Paris courtroom this week, French prosecutors announced their intention to seek the maximum penalty available in the trial of Salah Abdeslam. Abdeslam faces a life sentence without the possibility of parole for his role in the November 2015...
Last week, Dilkhayot Kasimov was sentenced by the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York to 15 years in prison after being found guilty of conspiring to and attempting to provide material support to ISIS, a U.S.-designated Foreign...
The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) invites you to join CEP Advisors Lucinda Creighton and Liam Duffy for a discussion with Dr. Simon Cottee, author of the new book Watching Murder: Isis, Death Videos and Radicalization.
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, a web shop was found on the print-on-demand platform Spring...
Violent attacks by Islamist extremists killed approximately 50 people in Burkina Faso last week as the country’s security continue to deteriorate. The attacks were staged between the rural communes of Madjoari and Pama, near Benin and Togo. No...
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. On Facebook, CEP researchers located ten accounts that posted pro-ISIS...
On May 15, Mali’s ruling junta announced that the country would withdraw from the G5 Sahel, a West African security force. Junta officials claimed the decision was due to the G5’s lack of progress in defeating al-Qaeda and ISIS. U.N. Assistant...
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. The video made by the perpetrator of the Buffalo racist massacre and his...
During a sentencing hearing last week in Alexandria, Virginia, Alexanda Amon Kotey, a Specially Designated Global Terrorist and member of the ISIS terror cell nicknamed “The Beatles,” was sentenced to life in prison for his role in the torture and...
"On this edition of 'The Hunt with WTOP National Security Correspondent J.J. Green,' Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler, senior director of the Counter Extremism Project, talked about the case of one of the ISIS 'Beatles.'"
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