"The clubs are ‘arguably the largest and fastest growing violent extreme-right network’, and are spreading across the UK, according to the insights provided to Metro.co.uk by the Counter Extremism Project (CEP)."

CEP Senior Advisor Edmund Fitton-Brown writes: "Iran has defined itself in opposition to Israel, the United States, and the wider West since the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Over the course of half a century of complex regional and global events, the clerical regime’s hostility and determination to “resist” has never abated, even when Iran finds itself naturally on the same side as the US in a given conflict. For example, when the American-led coalition invaded Iraq in 2003 to drive out Iran’s deadliest enemy, the Sunni dictator Saddam Hussein, and with the partially articulated intention of giving Iraq’s Shia majority the decisive voice in the country’s government, it only took Iran a matter of weeks to start orchestrating the killing of US and British soldiers."

"The nonprofit Counter Extremism Project (CEP) released a report claiming 69 confirmed attacks by ISIS in central Syria in March.

The attacks resulted in the deaths of at least 84 Syrian soldiers, and 44 civilians and more than doubled the total number of confirmed ISIS operations for all of 2024."

CEP Senior Research Analyst Josh Lipowsky writes: "I joined hundreds of Argentinians and delegates from around the world outside the Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina (AMIA) in Buenos Aires last month to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the bombing on July 18, 1994, which killed 85 people and wounded 300 others."

"Germany is still in shock after the terror attack in Solingen, days before important state elections. How can we stop terrorism? Is migration a threat? Our guests: Hans-Jakob Schindler (terrorism expert); Morten Freidel (NZZ); Amir Musawy (freelance journalist)"

"The UN Secretary General is calling on Israel to immediately halt its large-scale military operation in the occupied West Bank. For now, Israel presses ahead, and claims to have killed some Palestinian militants in a gun battle in a mosque on Thursday. DW spoke with Hans-Jakob Schindler about Israel’s goals in the Palestinian territory."

"A report published last year by the Counter Extremism Project described Active Clubs as a 'stand-by militia of trained and capable [right-wing extremists] who can be activated when the need for coordinated violent action on a larger scale arises.'"

“... The video is still being reviewed, says Hans-Jakob Schindler, Counter Extremism Project expert and former UN Security Council adviser on global terrorism sanctions. But it is obvious that the attack followed the IS script: "With such attacks, which are difficult to detect in advance, IS is showing that it is still important." In 2017, IS lost its state base in Syria and Iraq, said Schindler. But the group is now on the rise again, for example in Afghanistan and West Africa. The West has withdrawn from the core areas of IS terrorists. "Because the pressure there has decreased, attacks in the West are becoming more likely again ." This raises the question of how terrorists are financed. Although an attack like the one in Solingen - which is presumably inspired by IS but carried out without personal instructions - costs the group nothing, says Schindler. But in Syria, IS is again carrying out more and more bomb attacks.”

"Terror expert H.-J. Schindler believes that it has been overlooked that internal security is primarily threatened on the Internet."

“Three people were killed in the attack in Solingen, Germany, claimed by IS on Friday evening. “There is definitely danger in the Netherlands,” said German terrorism expert Hans-Jakob Schindler. #Newshour”