Military-oriented videos have been the bedrock of IS propaganda, but the group’s ability to govern once featured heavily as well — on average accounting for one-fifth of the media analyzed by Milton and a quarter of IS videos reviewed in separate...

Wild Cards in Battle for Mosul

Iraqi Shiite militias have officially joined the fight to retake Mosul from ISIS, despite calls from groups like Human Rights Watch to ban these abusive militias from participating in the fight for the last remaining major city in Iraq under ISIS...

CEP Condemns Suicide Attack in Quetta, Pakistan

CEP issued a statement today condemning the suicide attack at a police academy in Quetta, Pakistan that killed 61 people and wounded 123.

CEP Spokesperson and Senior Policy Advisor Tara Maller was interviewed on Yahoo News on POTUS by host Olivier Knox, discussing the national security issues that were at the forefront in 2016.

Losing Dabiq: Potholes on the Road to the Apocalypse

The small, quiet town of Dabiq, nestled in the countryside of northern Syria about 10 miles from the border with Turkey, held little military or strategic significance until 2014, when the birth and lightning conquests of ISIS placed it on the...

The U.S. is taking aim at an Islamic State terror group operative thought to have played a key role in launching the terror attacks on both Paris and Brussels. On Tuesday, the State Department sanctioned Abdelilah Himich, a Moroccan-born Frenchman...

CEP Spokesperson and Senior Policy Advisor Tara Maller speaks with MSNBC's Thomas Roberts about the impact Russia might have on the 2016 election.

CEP Spokesperson Tara Maller discusses the fight for Mosul, Russian hacking and drones used by ISIS that killed two Kurdish soldiers in northern Iraq.

How do we defeat ISIS?

Dear friends, In the past two years, ISIS has grown and spread like a cancer. ISIS is hijacking social media and other online tools to radicalize, recruit, spread propaganda, and plan attacks. From California, to New York and from Texas to Minnesota...

CEP Report Details Extremism and Counter-Extremism in Afghanistan

CEP released a new resource detailing Afghanistan’s tumultuous history and present challenges from violent extremists like ISIS and the Taliban. Afghanistan: Extremism and Counter Extremism traces the origins of al-Qaeda and the Taliban to the Soviet...