AQAP’s Leader Qasim Al-Raymi Presumed Dead After U.S. Airstrike

On January 31, 2020, the United States announced that they recently conducted an airstrike that is believed to have resulted in the death of Qasim al-Raymi, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula’s (AQAP) leader. After having led al-Qaeda’s branch in...

"Al-Shabab, which means 'the Youth' in Arabic, is believed to have formed around 2006. The U.S. State Department designated the group as a terrorist organization two years later, and in 2012, they pledged allegiance to Al Qaeda, according to the...

CEP Researcher Liam Duffy on talkRADIO

CEP Researcher Liam Duffy discussed deradicalization, counter-radicalization, and how the UK compares to other countries with Matthew Wright on talkRADIO.

CEP Senior Advisor and former prison governor, Professor Ian Acheson speaks to Cathy Newman about the emergency legislation the U.K. government is preparing which would end automatic early release for terrorists

Extremist Content Online: ISIS & White Supremacists Call For Violence Against Religious And Racial Minorities

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. This week, ISIS’s spokesman called for attacks on Jews in an audio...

CEP Senior Advisor Professor Ian Acheson on Channel 4 News

CEP Senior Advisor and former prison governor, Professor Ian Acheson peaks to Cathy Newman about the emergency legislation the U.K. government is preparing which would end automatic early release for terrorists.

CEP Senior Advisor "Ian Acheson, who led an independent review of Islamic extremism in the criminal justice system, told the BBC that the risk-management system was 'broken.'"

"Ian Acheson, who carried out a review of the management of Islamist extremists in jail, said the prison service did not have the aptitude to manage terrorist offenders."

"'We may need to accept there are certain people who are so dangerous they must be kept in prison indefinitely,' Ian Acheson, who carried out a review of how such offenders were treated, told BBC radio."

"Experts are warning that terrorists could have some surprises in store in 2020. In this week’s edition of The Hunt with WTOP national security correspondent JJ Green, Dr. Hans Jakob Schindler, Sr. Director of the Counter Extremism Project, says...