Fact:
On August 23, 2017, Boko Haram insurgents attacked several villages in northern Nigeria’s Borno State. The extremists shot at villagers and slit their throats, killing 27 people and wounding at least 6 others.
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"'At the moment, it appears that NSO is very much a new generation of AWD, as the new group is led by AWD leadership that was not arrested,' said Joshua Fisher-Birch, a research analyst at the Counter Extremism Project, a U.S.-based terrorism...
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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, ISIS released a new video through the group’s Al Hayat Media...
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On August 4, 2020, CEP Senior Director Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler spoke on BBC Newshour about the complicated task of repatriating children of ISIS members, some of whose parents are dead and others whose mothers are considered a security risk...
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CEP Senior Director Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler spoke on BBC Newshour about the complicated task of repatriating children of ISIS members, some of whose parents are dead and others whose mothers are considered a security risk. According to Dr. Schindler...
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CEP Advisor Liam Duffy writes: "Despite the ongoing torment, it is the lack of justice that has left the bitterest taste for many Yazidis. 40,000 foreigners joined Islamic State. Some 6,000 from Western Europe and several hundred more from North...
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"'If Germany … will continue to take part in the U.N. or NATO missions that involve actual fighting, you need a special forces unit,' Hans-Jakob Schindler, senior director of the Counter Extremism Project in Berlin, told VOA. 'Disbanding the whole...
Press Release
Law enforcement agencies around the globe are widening their efforts to dismantle the illicit activities and financial networks of Iran-backed proxy militias. In July, the United States and Paraguay moved to disrupt Hezbollah’s infrastructure and...
Press Release
Last week, the tech sector’s largest counterterror group, the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism (GIFCT) convened a forum of industry stakeholders to address ongoing extremist activity online in the wake of protests and civil unrest. The...
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"Counter Extremism Project (CEP), an international non-governmental organization that claims to fight against the rise of extremist ideologies, contacted Iberdrola during the summer of 2017 to alert him 'of the dangerous nature of the relations...
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CEP Advisor Liam Duffy writes: "This danger will not be short-lived. The long arc of jihadism inside Britain stretches back 30 years when large numbers of British mujahideen left these shores to fight in Bosnia, Somalia and Chechnya. Nearly 30 years...
Extremists: Their Words. Their Actions.
Fact:
On August 23, 2017, Boko Haram insurgents attacked several villages in northern Nigeria’s Borno State. The extremists shot at villagers and slit their throats, killing 27 people and wounding at least 6 others.
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