“The threat level regarding terrorist attacks in the USA and Europe has increased due to the conflict with the Islamist regime in Iran,” Counter Extremism Project Senior Director Hans-Jakob Schindler tells the Sun. “Currently, however, it’s an abstract threat, meaning that it is likely the regime will attempt to carry out attacks in the USA and Europe as part of its hybrid warfare strategy, but no warnings about concrete attacks have been received until now.”

Extremist networks linked to ISIS have called for attacks against Hindus in India and across South and Southeast Asia, even as they praised recent violence in the United States and expanded online recruitment, according to a new report by the Counter Extremism Project (CEP), nonprofit and non-partisan international policy organization

CEP Senior Director Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler appeared on the podcast to discuss al-Qaeda terror cells in Germany. 

CEP Senior Director Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler writes: “Today, Europe is facing a resurgent and increasingly complex terrorism threat. Between 2022 and 2024, the European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation (EUROPOL) reports that 206 terror attacks—both foiled and successful—were recorded on the continent, and 1255 individuals were arrested on terrorist-related charges.[1] Put another way, Europe as a whole is experiencing more than one terror attack per week, on average; slightly less than six per month. Moreover, those statistics are assuredly incomplete, since EUROPOL only collates data that is forwarded by its member states.”

CEP Senior Director Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler interviewed at 01:02 regarding the court case against Russian agents in Germany.

The investigation points to a pattern that investigators observe among so-called Russian “disposable agents.” According to the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, these agents often work “on behalf of a foreign intelligence service without actually belonging to it” in exchange for small sums of money. Unlike full-time employees, they are expendable, and the risk of their cover being blown is accepted. “Once the operation is complete or someone is arrested, they are literally discarded,” says terrorism and security expert Hans-Jakob Schindler, director of the international think tank Counter Extremism Project.

Extremist networks linked to ISIS have called for attacks against Hindus in India and across South and Southeast Asia, even as they praised recent violence in the United States and expanded online recruitment, according to a new report by the Counter Extremism Project (CEP).

“The relationship between the cartels and Hezbollah is long-standing, significant and multifaceted,” the senior director of the Counter Extremism Project, Hans-Jakob Schindler, told The New York Sun. Mr. Schindler said the “strategically most significant part” of the relationship between the cartels and Hezbollah is financial cooperation in the international illicit drug trade.

“This also includes money laundering activities that Hezbollah is now also able to offer other organized crime networks as a service,” he said, adding, “This role has only increased since the war with Israel following the attack of Hezbollah on Israel” the day after Hamas’s assault on October 7, 2023.

Where is Mojtaba Khamenei? Days after being named Iran's supreme leader following Ali Khamenei's death, Mojtaba Khamenei has not appeared on camera. Hans-Jakob Schindler of the Counter Extremism Project tell DW what's known about him.

[CEP Senior Director] Middle East and terrorism expert Hans-Jakob Schindler doubted whether the current strategy would achieve the former in particular. The current aim is to bring about regime change through air strikes so that sufficient numbers of people from the security apparatus defect to the opposition side. In return, the Iranian regime would have a plan to drive up the economic costs for the USA and the world so that they would end the war for economic reasons. In his opinion, it should not come to that, because: "If the regime survives, we will see chaos."