“... Edmund Fitton-Brown, a senior adviser to the Counter-Extremism Project, a transatlantic thinktank and advocacy group, said it was predictable that the Houthis and other groups would make such threats. “We shouldn’t read too much into the...

“Iran had long been saying it would happen, and on Tuesday the regime in Tehran got serious. Less than a day after Israel began its ground offensive in Lebanon, the Islamic Republic said it fired 200 rockets towards Israel. Sirens blared across the...

"Edmund Fitton-Brown, a senior adviser at the Counter Extremism Project and formerly UKs ambassador to Yemen, echoed these apprehensions, cautioning about the additional dangers posed by the Houthi rebels in Yemen, which form another component of...

"Hans-Jakob Schindler of the Berlin-based Counter Extremism Project breaks down Israel's four stated objectives for its land incursion into southern Lebanon. He told DW that keeping the Israeli operation against Hezbollah "limited, localized and...

“After Iran has responded with ballistic missile attacks on Israel's ground offensive into Lebanon, Ask DW answers your questions. We'll be joined in the studio by DW's Middle East analyst Shani Rozanes and by security expert and senior director of...

CEP Report: Civilian Counterterrorism Militias Take Action, Introduce New Challenges to Combatting Violent Extremism in Africa

A new report from the Counter Extremism Project (CEP), written by research analyst Riza Kumar, exposes the repercussions of deploying civilian counterterrorism militias in Mali, Niger, and Mozambique in response to the severe threat of Islamic...

Eye on Extremism: October 1, 2024

“Israel’s military forces crossed the border into southern Lebanon on Monday to conduct what its military described as “limited, localized, and targeted ground raids” against the Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah. The offensive, which is aimed at...

CEP Policy Brief: Identifying and Disrupting Key Antisemitic Actors

Last week, New York City saw a wave of anti-Israel protests during the United Nations General Assembly, renewing fears about the surge of antisemitism that has plagued the West since October 7. The unrest included vandalization of pro-Israel...

"Alexander Ritzmann, a researcher with international organisation The Counter Extremism Project and an adviser to the European Commission’s Radicalisation Awareness Network, said he had "never seen a network in right-wing extremism grow so fast". He...

"… Just as Israel has come under attack from drones and missiles fired by Iran’s allied militias in Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Yemen, so has Israel struck out at targets in all those countries. Edmund Fitton-Brown, a former British ambassador to Yemen...