Turkey’s Extremist Ties Make It Fertile Ground To Plot, Direct Attacks

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...

"Even before the ARSA attacks in 2016 and 2017, organizations such as the International Crisis Group, RAND Corporation, Counter Extremism Project, and individual scholars have expressed concerns about a forthcoming wave of Rohingya radicalization."

"Liam Duffy, adviser at the Counter Extremism Project, noted: 'Alarmism and mislabelling protests, no matter how inconvenient, boisterous - or even how odious you might find them - as terrorists, insurrectionists, white supremacists has only served...

"Meanwhile Ian Acheson, a former prison governor and Senior Advisor to the Counter Extremism Project, added: 'I've resisted getting into personalities but what we need is someone with competence to make London safer, not a person that looks like a...

CEP Webinar: "The Azov Movement in Ukraine" | Joshua Fisher-Birch

Presenter: Joshua Fisher-Birch Research Analyst, Counter Extremism Project Since the start of the conflict in Ukraine in 2014, the Azov Movement has emerged as one of the most significant right-wing extremist structures in Ukraine. Transforming from...

CEP Webinar: "The Azov Movement in Ukraine" | Michael Colborne

Presenter: Michael Colborne Journalist and researcher with the Centre for the Analysis of the Radical Right (CARR) and Bellingcat Author of "From the Fires of War: Ukraine’s Azov Movement and the Global Far Right" http://cup.columbia.edu/book/from...

"Little is known about Ghafari, thought to be born in 1994, reportedly in Afghanistan or Iraq, according to experts at the Counter Extremism Project. An IS statement called him "an experienced military leader... one of the 'urban lions' of [IS-K] in...

"'The organization is ticking along quite nicely, even in this period now,' Hans-Jakob Schindler, senior director of the New York and Berlin-based Counter Extremism Project (CEP), told VOA. 'Yes, you killed the leader. That's a big blow,' said...

"On this edition of 'The Hunt with WTOP national Security correspondent J.J. Green,' Dr. Hans Jakob Schindler, senior director of the Counter Extremism Project says this is a vulnerable time for ISIS."

Biden Administration Must Redesignate Houthis As A Foreign Terrorist Organization

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)...