Last week, the government of Pakistan and the U.S.-designated Foreign Terrorist Organization Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan (TTP) agreed to a one-month ceasefire while the two conduct negotiations in Afghanistan under the auspices of the Afghan Taliban...
When Taliban forces seized control of Afghanistan in August, leaders of the extremist group pledged to establish a new reformed Taliban government. The current government, unlike the one in the 1990s, claimed that it would honor women’s rights within...
Last Thursday, Counter Extremism Project (CEP) Senior Director Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler authored an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal warning against the United Nations recognizing the Taliban formally as the government of Afghanistan. Schindler...
A month after the Taliban conquered Kabul and declared the restoration of their Islamic Emirate, a new administration in Afghanistan has taken shape. Senior positions have been handed to numerous internationally designated figures, including members...
An analysis by Counter Extremism Project (CEP) Senior Director Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler, the former coordinator of the U.N. Security Council’s ISIL, Al-Qaida and Taliban Monitoring Team, has determined that more than half of the Taliban’s 33-member...
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...
On Tuesday, the Taliban announced the formation of an interim government for Afghanistan, filling top posts with hardiners from their rule in the 1990s and veterans of the 20-year war against the U.S.-led coalition. The lineup of senior cabinet...
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 August 31, al-Qaeda released a statement via the group’s As-Sahab...
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. Over the last week, CEP researchers found ISIS supporters on RocketChat...
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...
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