"One of those groups – the Patriot Front – held a fundraiser in July in Western Pennsylvania and donated to a food pantry in Allentown in May, according to Josh Lipowsky, senior research analyst for the Counter Extremism Project..."

Burkina Faso Sees Second Military Coup In A Year As Russia Makes Inroads Across Sahel

Last week, Burkina Faso President Paul-Henri Damiba was deposed by Captain Ibrahim Traoré and his supporters in a successful coup, the second in the country in the past year. Traoré cited Damiba’s lack of progress in defeating Islamic extremists—the...

"European Eye on Radicalization is very pleased to have been able to interview Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler, currently a senior director at the Counter-Extremism Project (CEP) and previously the coordinator of the United Nations’ sanctions monitoring...

CEP Webinar: Back From Raqqa – The Prosecution Of Returnees In Germany And France

Approximately 30 percent of the German women and girls who traveled to Syria and Iraq, mostly to join ISIS, and returned to Germany, have been prosecuted. They were convicted for, inter alia, membership in or support of a foreign terrorist...

CEP Senior Director Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler on Iranian shelling of Kurdish groups in Iraq's Kurdistan region: "I'm not yet aware that there are major troop movements across the border, which would be something new...This was a warning shot against...

ISIS Redux: The Central Syria Insurgency in September 2022

Following is the September 2022 installment of “ISIS Redux: The Central Syria Insurgency,” a monthly chronicle of attacks by the terrorist group ISIS in central Syria. A review of developments throughout 2021 can be found here , and previous editions...

CEP Senior Research Analyst Sofia Koller and CEP Advisor Liam Duffy in European Eye on Radicalization Webinar

This event is a European Eye on Radicalization webinar looking at the debate over repatriating Islamic State (ISIS) foreign fighters from the camps in Syria. Despite the destruction of ISIS’s “caliphate” taking place in March 2019, more than three...

CEP Senior Director Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler on GLOBAL with JJ Green

"Iran's IRGC accused of launching cross-border attacks in Iraq to quell support for protest movement." Hans-Jakob Schindler, Sr. Director of the Counter Extremism Project, says the Iranian regime is concerned that the "chaos that this regime created"...

"Hans-Jakob Schindler, Sr. Director of the Counter Extremism Project, says the Iranian regime is concerned that the "chaos that this regime created" could spill over into ethnic unrest."

CEP Senior Research Analyst Sofia Koller and CEP Advisor Liam Duffy participated in a webinar hosted by European Eye on Radicalization (EER), on the thorny issue of whether jihadist foreign fighters from Europe and their families should be brought...