CEP Senior Advisor Edmund Fitton-Brown: "Edmund Fitton-Brown, Senior Advisor to the Counter Extremism Project and former Ambassador of the UK to Yemen, told MailOnline early Wednesday that the claims are 'very concerning if true' and appear 'credible' so far as Iran and Russia are 'locked in a rejectionist-disruptor embrace'."

“…Previously, the French anti-jihadist force Barkhane, the UN mission MINUSMA and European forces contained the threat in the North, Hans-Jakob Schindler, director of the think tank Counter-Extremism Project (CEP), explained to AFP. But Bamako asked them to leave the country and move closer to Moscow. Since then, Schindler notes, the Malian army has been ineffective, its Russian mercenary allies "have committed atrocities against the local population," and the JNIM is capitalizing on these dysfunctions by claiming in its propaganda that it is protecting the population, “creating uncertainty everywhere.”

CEP Senior Advisor Edmund Fitton-Brown: "In my first analysis and opinion piece on the so-called Axis of Resistance, I set the scene by describing Iran’s 45-year trajectory from the Khomeini revolution to its current challenge to the West and the Rules Based International System (RBIS). In this piece, we will begin working our way through the range of proxy militias that are supported and coordinated by Iran and challenge Iran’s enemies in the theatres in which they are active. The Yemeni Houthis are a great place to start because of the immediacy of the threat that they pose to international shipping in the Red Sea and, therefore, to the global economy. As a former UK Ambassador to Yemen (2015–2017), I have written this piece from a more personal point of view."

CEP Senior Advisor Ian Acheson writes: "What should we do about our national crisis of confidence? In every sense, confidence and trust in our institutions and national infrastructure is tanking. Let me count the ways. Tomorrow, I plan to go to London from Exeter. I have low confidence that when I get to the station my train will appear at all, let alone on time, in the right configuration or survive past Reading’s engineering twilight zone."

“Hans Jakob-Schindler, senior director at the Counter Extremism Project, discusses the situation in Lebanon and the growing fears of an all-out war.”
 

“…Almost all members of the military chain of command around Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah have been killed. Security expert Hans-Jakob Schindler sees this as a particular problem for the Shiite militia: "If this Israeli campaign continues, it will lead to a slow but very painful reduction in command capabilities for Hezbollah." At the moment, it is therefore unclear who could succeed Ibrahim Akil. According to Schindler, there are currently too few battle-tested leadership personnel within the militia.”

"Counter Extremism Project Senior Advisor Ian Acheson sat down for an interview about growing up with a terrorist threat on the Civic Space podcast from the University of Liverpool.”
 

"On this episode, Niall Paterson also speaks to former prison governor Professor Ian Acheson, author of the book Screwed - Britain's Prison Crisis And How to Escape It, about the prison environment, and how systemic a problem it has become."

“…An 18-year-old Islamist in Munich, for example, radicalized on TikTok, about to attack the Israeli consulate. Only the quick intervention of the police prevented a catastrophe. The problem: Such cases often go unnoticed for a long time. “Without communication with other terrorists, it is extremely difficult for the authorities to identify such attackers at an early stage,” explains Hans-Jakob Schindler of the Counter Extremism Project.”

CEP affiliated researcher Kacper Rekawek: "This process began over ten years ago and specifically after the 2012 protests in Moscow, when Russians gathered at Bolotnaya Square to express their disagreement with Putin’s third term as president. Having seen the protesters, who in large numbers were representatives of the urban middle class, the Russian authorities came to the conclusion that it was the liberals who were the main threat to the regime. Although these enemies were identified internally, the Kremlin decided to attack them abroad as well."