More ominously, the UN team also said that al-Qaeda had “established new training camps” in multiple Afghan provinces and had established “safe houses” in major cities such as Kabul. Fitton-Brown, the former coordinator of U.N. sanctions on the Taliban, told Just the News that “the U.S. is still stuck on this idea that the Taliban can be a counterterrorism partner” but that “there is a moral and practical hazard of trying to do counterterrorism work with the Taliban.”

Fitton-Brown, who is now senior advisor to the Counter Extremism Project, added that “if you go to the point of embracing allies of al-Qaeda to fight ISIS-K… it’s like treating a cold with a shot of malaria.”

CEP Senior Advisor Ian Acheson quoted: Ian Acheson, a former director of community safety at the Home Office, who previously said such games had become one of the main recruitment tools used by the far right, said the new precautions did not go far enough.

Acheson accused David Baszucki, the CEO of Roblox, which is valued at about $35 billion, of being “complacent” and said “vulnerable kids remain at risk”.

CEP Senior Director Ian Acheson quoted: Ian Acheson, a former prison governor who also served in the Home Office as the director of community safety, warned that a failure to tackle this issue represented a “national security threat” and could lead to race riots in prisons.

Acheson blamed “weak leadership at the top distracted by progressive fads” and those who are “scared by allegations of racism”.

CEP Senior Advisor Ian Acheson quoted: "Back in 2016 the former prison governor Ian Acheson produced an official review of the threat of Islamist extremism in prisons, probation and youth justice, and the capability of the National Offender Management Service to control it."

"Experts believe the harsh tone from Tehran is primarily a threat to deter Americans and Israelis from attacking their own nuclear facilities. "However, if the Iranians actually attack US bases, this would lead to a massive escalation and a major American counterattack," Hans-Jakob Schindler, Senior Director at the Berlin-based think tank Counter Extremism Project, told our editorial team."

Extremism expert Hans-Jakob Schindler says, while the perpetrator of the German Christmas market attack had been uniquely radicalised, they have been becoming more common since COVID-19.

Cryptocurrencies have helped the group invest its money while bypassing international financial sanctions, according to a report by the Counter Extremism Project. To combat those efforts. "Hamas was an early adopter of fundraising in crypto starting in 2019," said Ari Redbord, a former federal prosecutor and global head of policy and government affairs at TRM Labs, which is working to track Hamas funding. "They were using Telegram channels to solicit donations. They then set up website infrastructure to solicit donations." Yet, experts, including Redbord, emphasize that cryptocurrency remains a small piece of the group's financial strategy.

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has ignited controversy after revealing a previously unnoticed tattoo on his right forearm that reads "كافر" (kafir) in Arabic—a word that translates to "infidel" or "nonbeliever." "Extremist recruiters and propagandists have also sweepingly referred to Muslims and non-Muslims as kafir," according to the glossary of the Counter Extremism Project (CEP), a New York–based nonprofit that monitors extremist ideologies.