ISIS Redux: The Central Syria Insurgency in December 2020

Following is the December installment of “ISIS Redux: The Central Syria Insurgency,” a monthly chronicle of attacks by the terrorist group ISIS in central Syria. Previous editions of ISIS Redux can be viewed through the following links: November...

Extremist Content Online: Pro-ISIS Magazine “Voice Of Hind” #11 Released

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. Last week, the eleventh issue of the pro- ISIS web magazine “Voice of...

"The Counter Extremism Project, an international policy organization formed to combat the growing threat from extremist ideologies, reported in May that it was still finding Islamic State propaganda on Telegram. In addition, the project said it had...

Extremist Content Online: New ISIS Video Released On Multiple Websites, Including Facebook

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. Last week, ISIS released a new, hour-long video titled “To Be Absolved...

CEP Advisor Liam Duffy writes: "We have made very little effort to understand Islamism as distinct political theory and intellectual tradition. But this is exactly what it is: a political theory and not a matter of race or religion. Some adherents...

Boko Haram Claims Responsibility For Mass Kidnapping In Nigeria

Last week, Boko Haram extremists abducted more than 300 students from a boys’ boarding school in Kankara, northwest Nigeria. The attack was carried out in a town located hundreds of miles from the insurgent group’s stronghold in the Lake Chad Basin...

Tech & Terrorism: Europe Takes Action To Combat Online Extremism

After a series of terror attacks earlier this year in Austria and France, the European Union, its member states, and the United Kingdom are taking new steps to reduce online extremism and stem the dissemination of terrorist propaganda.

Extremist Content Online: Numerous ISIS Nasheeds Located On SoundCloud

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. Last week, CEP researchers located numerous ISIS nasheeds on SoundCloud...

"Riza Kumar, a researcher at the Counter Extremism Project (CEP), underscored that raids against ISIS need to continue to ensure that sleeper cells are actively neutralized to prevent future recruits' radicalization."

CEP Senior Advisor Ian Acheson writes: "Deradicalisation implies a binary process where toxic worldviews that may have their pre-cursors in early life can simply be switched off. No-one who has genuinely recanted a belief in violent extremism — they...