After the attacks in Lyon, Kuwait and Tunisia terrorism researcher Rolf Tophoven sees a kind of competition between rival Islamist terrorists. "We have two competing terrorist organizations, even if they fight in the same spirit: IS and al Qaeda,"...

CEP started a European branch on Monday (29 June) and says it will continue targeting extremists' activity on social media here. The group was founded last September in the US, where it focuses its attention on extremist activity on Twitter.

The internet is rightly celebrated for revolutionising the nature of global communications. We have seen what it can achieve for social justice and political change: the internet has demanded transparency, it has shone a light on oppressive regimes...

The Misssouri State University College of Business Ad Team won first place in the U.S. State Department’s Peer-to-Peer Challenging Extremism program, competing internationally against 21 other universities before emerging as the top finalist. Now the...

A group of former U.S. government officials and scholars have unified to launch an organized campaign to mount a belated online response to religious extremists. The Counter-Extremism Project has recently put pressure on Twitter and its CEO Jack...

"Soltan is certainly iconic now, but what frightened me is not the fact that the image escaped but the fact that the regime was also using these technologies," said Wallace, who now runs the Counter Extremism Project and an online campaign against...

CEP President and Former U.S. Homeland Security Advisor Francis Townsend appeared on the CBS News program Face the Nation to offer expert analysis on the latest developments involving the crash of EgyptAir Flight 804.

The increased need for smart information analysis within remittance streams has opened the door to national security experts offering aide. The CEP, a leading nonprofit based in New York City, is composed of veterans in the fields of counterterrorism...

An American jihadist in Somalia was found to have encouraged radical Muslims in America to attack the Draw Mohammed contest. Mohamed Abduhallahai Hasan, also known as Mujahid Miski, is considered “one of the most influential terror recruiters to have...

One of the first Somali-Americans from the Twin Cities to join a terrorist group overseas is a prominent online recruiter. “He can empathize with any grievances, any feelings of persecution or feeling disaffected, and he can use those and exploit...