Al-Shabaab Sets Sights on Kenya

Since May 2023, Kenya has witnessed a surge of violent activity from al-Shabaab, the Somalia-based terrorist group. The uptick in attacks began after Nairobi and Mogadishu announced a planned reopening of their borders, a frontier that has been...

Lebanon, Hezbollah, and the Anniversary—and Failure—of Resolution 1701

Over the past few months, Hezbollah , Iran’s Shiite terrorist proxy in Lebanon , has been making increasingly aggressive moves along the Lebanon-Israel border. The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) has noted the increased tensions...

"Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler, senior director of the Counter Extremism Project and former coordinator of a terror monitoring team in the UN Security Council, told The Media Line that Syria no longer operates as IS’s center of gravity as it once did. He...

"The John Brown Gun Club, named after the 19th century slavery abolitionist, promotes the abolition of police and other perceived symbols of oppression, according to the nonprofit Counter Extremism Project, which tracks extremism on the far right and...

CEP – KAS: Sahel Monitoring July 2023

This report focuses on operations throughout the Sahel in July 2023 claimed by the propaganda outlets of al-Qaeda and ISIS. In total, 45 different operations were claimed by these groups.

CEP Strategic Advisor Liam Duffy writes: "The most destructive, spectacular and costly riots in France’s recent history, surpassing even the infamous unrest of 2005, are over. To the Anglophone media and its audiences they were an expression of the...

"Hans-Jakob Schindler vom Counter Extremism Project in Berlin sieht die Entwicklung in der Region kritisch: «Eine völlige Destabilisierung Nigers würde einen weiteren Stein aus der Brandmauer der internationalen Gemeinschaft gegen den Terrorismus in...

CEP Senior Advisor Ian Acheson write: "Given the ease with which eco-activists invaded their family home yesterday morning, this slice of actuarial science will be of limited comfort to the Sunak family – and, indeed, to North Yorkshire Police. And...

"Others include Christopher Pohlhaus, who served four years in the Marine Corps before moving to Maine with the dream of somehow turning it into an all-white ethnostate. Pohlhaus accompanied NSC-131 at an October 2022 protest in Lewiston aimed at the...

ISIS Redux: The Central Syria Insurgency in July 2023

Following is the July 2023 installment of “ISIS Redux: The Central Syria Insurgency,” a monthly chronicle of attacks by the terrorist group ISIS in central Syria. A review of developments throughout 2022 and 2021 can be found here and here . The...