The Misssouri State University College of Business Ad Team won first place in the U.S. State Department’s Peer-to-Peer Challenging Extremism program, competing internationally against 21 other universities before emerging as the top finalist. Now the...

A group of former U.S. government officials and scholars have unified to launch an organized campaign to mount a belated online response to religious extremists. The Counter-Extremism Project has recently put pressure on Twitter and its CEO Jack...

"Soltan is certainly iconic now, but what frightened me is not the fact that the image escaped but the fact that the regime was also using these technologies," said Wallace, who now runs the Counter Extremism Project and an online campaign against...

CEP President and Former U.S. Homeland Security Advisor Francis Townsend appeared on the CBS News program Face the Nation to offer expert analysis on the latest developments involving the crash of EgyptAir Flight 804.

The increased need for smart information analysis within remittance streams has opened the door to national security experts offering aide. The CEP, a leading nonprofit based in New York City, is composed of veterans in the fields of counterterrorism...

An American jihadist in Somalia was found to have encouraged radical Muslims in America to attack the Draw Mohammed contest. Mohamed Abduhallahai Hasan, also known as Mujahid Miski, is considered “one of the most influential terror recruiters to have...

One of the first Somali-Americans from the Twin Cities to join a terrorist group overseas is a prominent online recruiter. “He can empathize with any grievances, any feelings of persecution or feeling disaffected, and he can use those and exploit...

One of the gunmen who attacked a Prophet Mohammed cartoon competition in Texas was in repeated contact with an American supporter of the Islamic State group, terror experts said. "Miski was online talking about Charlie Hebdo and how people in the US...

Mohamed Abdullahi Hassan is an American citizen who joined the radical group fighting against the enemies of Islam called Islamic State. Terrorism expert David Ibsen from the Counter Extremism Project stated that “Miski was online talking about...

“It does reflect a pattern,” said former U.S. Ambassador Mark Wallace, now chief executive officer at the Counter Extremism Project. “You’re seeing that ISIS and others have sought to take action against those who in any way use free speech for humor...