CEP Senior Advisor Ian Acheson writes: "There has been excitable, not to say sometimes unhinged, reporting around the introduction of draft legislation to require private venues to toughen their defences against the threat of bombers and marauding...

"The far-right Alternative for Germany party (AfD) made a historic breakthrough when it won a district election on Sunday thanks to an “unfortunate intersection” of flashpoints over immigration and the Ukraine war coinciding with the vote, extremism...

Extremist Content Online: Pro-ISIS Online Chat Promotes Monero Cryptocurrency To Fund Propaganda Operations

The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) reports weekly on the methods used by extremists to exploit the Internet and social media platforms to recruit followers and incite violence. On June 16 and June 21, CEP researchers identified posts in a pro-ISIS...

"Hans-Jakob Schindler, senior director of the Counter Extremism Project, presented the latest trends in the Taliban’s relations with transnational narcotics syndicates, showing how heroin and methamphetamines produced in Afghanistan are smuggled...

"For several years now, law enforcement and researchers have been monitoring racially and ethnically motivated violent white supremacist groups and their growing fascination with our country's power grid. Many in these groups are 'accelerationists,'...

CEP Webinar: Comparing The Financial Strategies Of Right-Wing Extremist Organizations And Actors In The United Kingdom And Germany

The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) invites you to a webinar on Wednesday, July 5, 2023, focusing on the presentation of a new, in-depth CEP study concerning the financial strategies of right-wing extremist actors in the United Kingdom and Germany...

"The event was held on Thursday, and involved the Permanent Missions of Afghanistan, Canada and Spain, jointly with the Afghanistan Policy Lab of the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs (SPIA), the Counter Extremism Project (CEP) and...

"As reported by Fast Company, analysts with the Counter Extremism Project claim that they were used to seeing various radical groups requesting donations in cryptocurrencies."

Afghanistan Terrorism Report: May 2023

Following is the May 2023 installment of “Afghanistan Terrorism Report.” The authors provide a monthly analysis concerning the developing terrorist threat in Afghanistan as well as a comprehensive overview of that month’s al-Qaeda and ISIS-K...

UN Side Event: Tackling the Multiplicity of Security Challenges in Taliban-run Afghanistan and Neighboring Countries: Terrorism, Organized Crime, Human Rights and Humanitarian Assistance

"The Permanent Missions of Afghanistan, Canada and Spain, jointly with the Afghanistan Policy Lab of the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs (SPIA), the Counter Extremism Project (CEP) and the International Institute for Justice and...