CBSN's panel of global experts on radical Islam discuss why Brussels has become a recruiting hotbed for ISIS. The panel included; CEP Executive Director David Ibsen; Erin Saltman, a senior researcher at the United Kingdom's Institute for Strategic...

U.S. intelligence agencies investigating the kidnapping of three Americans in Baghdad last week are focusing their probe on three militant Islamic groups closely affiliated with Iran, U.S. government sources said on Thursday. Asaib Ahl al-Haq, Kata...

CEP Mourns the Passing of British Humanitarian and Publisher Lord George Weidenfeld

Following is a statement from CEP CEO Ambassador Mark D. Wallace on the death of England’s Lord George Weidenfeld at the age of 96 “I had the privilege and honor of knowing and working with Lord Weidenfeld, a remarkable humanitarian and visionary...

CEP Releases Updated Resource on the Taliban Following Attacks in Pakistan and Afghanistan

CEP is releasing an updated resource on the history, ideology and leadership of Islamist extremist group the Taliban following its attacks in Pakistan and Afghanistan on January 20 targeting students and independent television journalists. At least...

The 27 Bangladeshi men who were arrested under Singapore’s Internal Security Act were described as subscribing to the extremist beliefs and teachings of “radical idealogues” such as Anwar Awlaki. In December, the Counter Extremism Project, an...

Prevent Prisons From Becoming Jihadist Factories

The “mastermind” of the November 13 Paris attacks, Abdelhamid Abaaoud, was radicalized in a Belgian prison while serving time for theft . Charlie Hebdo and kosher supermarket shooters Amedy Coulibaly and Cherif Kouachi also spent time in jail...

Asaib Ahl al-Haq, Kata’ib Hezbollah, and the Badr Organization

CEP released updated resources on three powerful Iraqi Shiite militias. One of the Iranian-backed Shiite militias is reportedly responsible for the disappearance of three Americans from an apartment in Baghdad on January 15.

Hassan was reportedly in Twitter contact with Elton Simpson, one of two gunmen killed by police after he opened fire at an event featuring cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed in Garland, Texas, in May, according to the Counter Extremism Project, a U.S...

CEP Releases Resources on Al-Mourabitoun and AQIM Following Burkina Faso Attacks

(New York, NY) – The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) is releasing updated resources on violent Islamic terror groups al-Mourabitoun and al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), following their attacks across the West African country of Burkina Faso...

Lawsuit Alleging Twitter Provides “Material Support” to ISIS Highlights Dangers of Unchecked Social Media Misuse by Extremists

CEP CEO Ambassador Mark Wallace said that a lawsuit filed against Twitter by the family of a Florida man killed in Jordan by ISIS highlights the dangers and personal costs resulting from the unchecked misuse of social media platforms by extremists.