WASHINGTON — With top-level meetings underway at the United Nations to determine a plan for confronting the Islamic State, blocks away, a star-studded panel launched a nongovernmental initiative to confront what it described as a “growing threat from...

CEO Mark Wallace on Erin Burnett

Counter Extremism Project CEO Mark Wallace appears on Erin Burnett.

Farah Pandith on Al Jazeera America

Counter Extremism Project Advisor Farah Pandith appears on Al Jazeera America.

Fran Townsend on CNN Tonight

Counter Extremism Project Advisor Fran Townsend appears on CNN Tonight.

CEP Fox & Friends Mention

Counter Extremism Project mentioned on Fox & Friends on September 23, 2014.

HAPPENING TODAY -- Counter Extremism project goes live: Former Sen. Joe Lieberman, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Mark Wallace and former presidential adviser Fran Townsend take to the media today to begin exposing the Islamic State's...

HAPPENING TODAY IN NYC: “Ambassador Mark Wallace, former Homeland Security Advisor Fran Townsend, and former U.S. Senator Joseph Lieberman will announce the launch of the Counter Extremism Project, an organization led by a renowned group of former...

The United States should stop going out of its way to avoid calling the military initiative against the Islamic State (ISIS) a war, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Mark Wallace says. "We're clearly at war. This is absolutely a war, but...

A new counter-terror NGO called the Counter Extremism Project debuted on Monday, which seeks to target the growing threat from radical Islamic groups on multiple fronts, one of which is exposing their financing networks.

Amid the rise of extremist movements in the Middle East and with growing fears by Western countries that their national security interests are threatened, an American organization, with an international presence to combat extremism, kicks off in New...