A computer scientist at Dartmouth College has developed new software aimed at quickly identifying and stopping the spread of extremist videos online that are used to incite violent attacks. Dr. Hany Farid developed the software with the Counter...

Pakistan Must do More Than Count the Dead

I emailed her and also sent a message on Facebook. No answer. Then I remembered my sister-in-law uses WhatsApp on her phone. She was in Lahore Sunday for a family wedding. The children were with her. I had no idea if they were staying near Gulshan-e...

A senior British jihadi, Raphael Hostey, who boasted of recruiting hundreds of Britons for Isis has reportedly been killed in Syria. Hostey used several methods in his recruitment attempts, including providing theological justification for Isis...

CEP Interactive Map Spotlights Extremism & Counter-Extremism Efforts Country by Country

The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) today released its new Areas of Operation map that describes extremism and counter-extremism efforts in 24 countries, and depicts the geographic scope and impact of extremist and terrorist groups. The mapping tool...

The Brussels Attacks: Years in the Making

When ISIS suicide bombers attacked Zaventem airport and the Maelbeek metro station on 22 March, a sense of horror descended on the city that is not just our home but the European heart of what our organization does: fight extremism.

CEP Applauds Facebook and Twitter for Shutting Down Hamas Accounts for Inciting Violence

(New York, NY) – The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) today applauded reports that social media companies Facebook and Twitter had suspended accounts connected to the terror group Hamas and issued the following statement, attributable to CEO...

Counter Extremism Project Strategic Policy Analyst Supna Zaidi Peery to Testify Before House Committee on Homeland Security

CEP Strategic Policy Analyst Supna Zaidi Peery will testify before the House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Counterterrorism and Intelligence on April 27. The hearing will examine the current threat ISIS affiliates and its supporters pose to U.S...

CEP Research Analyst Marielle Harris details in this blog the sophisticated weaponry in the possession of ISIS, including anti-aircraft missiles, chemical weapons, and programmable driverless car bombs. Harris says no one should doubt ISIS’s ability...

The Aspen Security Forum, a conference series that has become a fixture on the national security calendar, last week travelled abroad for the first time, to London. Twitter and social media at large found itself in the crosshairs of frustrated...

Two British men convicted of plotting Islamic State-inspired shooting attacks on the streets of London were each handed life sentences by a judge on Friday. "Of the 350 British foreign fighters to have returned to the U.K., at least 70 are considered...