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  • Tunisia: A Nascent Democracy Under Siege

    At the end of 2010, Tunisia witnessed the beginning of the Arab Spring, and the country soon commenced its transition to democracy. This report discusses how Tunisia works towards a democratic future in the face of radicalization and terrorism as well as socio-economic problems.
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  • U.K. Online Harms White Paper Consultation Questions Submission

    The U.K. government’s Department for Digital, Media, Culture, and Sport and Home Office jointly published the Online Harms White Paper in April 2019. CEP submitted its responses to several of the White Paper’s consultation questions.
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  • Unsolved Murders in Syria’s Badia: Truffle Hunters in the Crosshairs and ISIS at Large

    This report is part of a multi-year study of ISIS’s ongoing insurgency in central Syria, including an analysis of attacks against civilians, who have been regularly targeted in the Badia.
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  • Vehicles as Weapons of Terror

    CEP has documented major vehicular incidents in Vienna, Ohio, Berlin, London, Antwerp, Stockholm, Paris, Barcelona, Edmonton, and New York.
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  • Violence Against Perceived Blasphemers in the West: From Khomeini’s Fatwa to the Present

    The report examines a strand of Islamist violence motivated by perceived acts of blasphemy, its evolution, and the paradoxical responses to both perceived insults and violent responses.
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  • West Africa’s Terrorism Challenge: Development of al-Qaeda in the Western Sahel Region

    This paper analyzes the structure of JNIM, how it is financed, and how its various groups operate jointly. It also identifies potential challenges that may arise from expanded JNIM activity from Mali and Burkina Faso.
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  • West Africa’s Terrorism Challenge: Interlinkage of terrorism and transnational organized crime in West Africa

    This paper expands on the role of transnational organized crime and its use in West Africa to support these terror networks financially.
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  • West Africa’s Terrorism Challenge: Linkages of terrorist groups in West Africa with terrorist networks in other African regions

    This paper analyzes the interplay between JNIM, ISWAP, and ISGS with terrorist groups in North, West-Central, Eastern, and Southern Africa.
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  • West Africa’s Terrorism Challenge: Status of ISWAP and ISGS in West Africa and Sahel

    This paper explores the origins of the two most prominent Islamic State-affiliated extremist groups in the Sahel, ISWAP and ISGS, as well as their implementation of Islamic laws and exploitation of local communities.
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  • Western Extremists and the Russian Invasion of Ukraine in 2022

    The Russia-Ukraine war has been attracting foreign fighters/volunteers since 2014. However, the invasion of Ukraine by Russia on February 24, 2022 provided a seemingly seismic shift in this field with up to 20,000 foreigners expressing an interest in joining the Ukrainian war effort.
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  • Western Foreign Fighters and the Yazidi Genocide

    The Yazidi minority of Iraq was specifically targeted for mass rape and genocide by ISIS. Many of the surviving Yazidis are crying out for justice for the crimes committed against their community, their families, and friends.
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  • White Supremacy Groups in the United States

    This resource provides an overview of the history, propaganda, violent activities, and notable rhetoric of the most active and virulent white supremacist groups in the United States, as well as several prominent white supremacist media outlets. Continue Reading

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Extremists: Their Words. Their Actions.

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On October 7, 2023, Hamas invaded southern Israel where, in the space of eight hours, hundreds of armed terrorists perpetrated mass crimes of brutality, rape, and torture against men, women and children. In the biggest attack on Jewish life in a single day since the Holocaust, 1,200 were killed, and 251 were taken hostage into Gaza—where 101 remain. One year on, antisemitic incidents have increased by record numbers. 

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