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The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) reports weekly on the methods used by extremists to exploit the Internet and social media platforms to recruit followers and incite violence. Extremist groups and individuals online continue to focus on the Russian...
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Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has sparked online activity from far-right white nationalists and neo-Nazi groups, supplementing the existing movement of extremists emboldened by Russia’s 2014 invasion of Ukraine. The Counter Extremism Project (CEP)...
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Last week, Taliban Acting Minister for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice Sheikh Muhammad Khalid Hanafi bragged about his group’s “historic” number of suicide attacks in Afghanistan over the past 20 years. Pro-Taliban accounts on...
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The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) reports weekly on the methods used by extremists to exploit the Internet and social media platforms to recruit followers and incite violence. Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, various extremist groups and...
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Speculation is increasing that the United States could agree to Iran’s demand to remove the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) from its list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations as a condition of a nuclear agreement. Senior officials in Israel...
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The ISIS attack on a prison in al-Hasakah, Syria, on January 20, and the ensuing battle left hundreds of ISIS suspects dead, escaped, or unaccounted for. While the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) have regained control of the prison, many...
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The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) reports weekly on the methods used by extremists to exploit the Internet and social media platforms to recruit followers and incite violence. Over the past two weeks, white supremacists have uploaded a variety of...
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Under President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Turkey has become a haven for terrorist operatives. It maintains open relations with extremist groups and harbors internationally sanctioned and wanted extremists affiliated with the Taliban, the Muslim...
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Last February, the Biden Administration revoked the Trump-era designation in the hopes of reducing violence and easing the humanitarian crisis in Yemen. However, since removing the Houthis from the list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs)...
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The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) reports weekly on the methods used by extremists to exploit the Internet and social media platforms to recruit followers and incite violence. Last week, following the U.S. announcement that ISIS leader Amir...
Extremists: Their Words. Their Actions.
Fact:
On October 7, 2023, Hamas invaded southern Israel where, in the space of eight hours, hundreds of armed terrorists perpetrated mass crimes of brutality, rape, and torture against men, women and children. In the biggest attack on Jewish life in a single day since the Holocaust, 1,200 were killed, and 251 were taken hostage into Gaza—where 101 remain. One year on, antisemitic incidents have increased by record numbers.
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