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February 16, 2016

Facebook Inc., the world's largest social media network, is more aggressively monitoring material on its site relating to terrorism. Mark Wallace of the Counter Extremism Project, a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, told The Wall Street...

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February 11, 2016

Hours after the December shootings in San Bernardino, Calif., Mark Wallace asked his employees at the nonprofit Counter Extremism Project to comb social media for profiles of the alleged attackers. They failed. A team at Facebook Inc. had already...

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February 7, 2016

Twitter, an American social networking website, says since 2015 it has deleted 125,000 accounts linked to the Daesh (ISIL) Takfiri group. The California-based company made the announcement, adding it has stepped up its fight against violent extremism...

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February 4, 2016

There are at least 40 Americans – far more than previously believed – actively serving in the Islamist terror group Al Shabaab, including dozens of radicalized killers from Minnesota’s prominent Somali-American community, experts told Fox News. "In...

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February 3, 2016

Forces fighting the terror thugs of ISIS captured a bizarre pick-up truck with tank-style treads. In October an investigation was launched into how so many Toyotas ended up in the hands of ISIS . Mark Wallace, a former US Ambassador to the United...

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January 25, 2016

CEP CEO Ambassador Mark D. Wallace, writing in USA Today ,called on video sharing platform YouTube to immediately remove videos of the notorious American cleric turned al-Qaeda propagandist Anwar al-Awlaki . “ Because of his homicidal anti-American...

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January 25, 2016

U.S. intelligence agencies investigating the kidnapping of three Americans in Baghdad, Iraq last week are focusing their probe on three militant Islamic groups closely affiliated with Iran. Asaib Ahl al-Haq, Kata'ib Hezbollah and the Badr...

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January 25, 2016

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...

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January 22, 2016

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...

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January 21, 2016

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...

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Extremists: Their Words. Their Actions.

Fact:

On May 8, 2019, Taliban insurgents detonated an explosive-laden vehicle and then broke into American NGO Counterpart International’s offices in Kabul. At least seven people were killed and 24 were injured.

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