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  • The Central Syria ISIS Insurgency in 2022

    ISIS activity in central Syria fluctuated significantly throughout 2022. The year began with a series of moderately high tempo months, reached a historic low in July, and culminated in a renewed steady increase in activity over the last four months of the year.
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  • The Central Syria ISIS Insurgency in 2023

    This year saw three key developments in central Syria, all of which could impact the group’s activities in both central and northeast Syria in 2024.
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  • The EU Digital Services Act (DSA) – Recommendations For An Effective Regulation Against Terrorist Content Online

    In March 2020, CEP Germany carried out a sample analysis to test the extent to which YouTube, Facebook and Instagram block “manifestly illegal” terrorist content upon notification.

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  • The Extreme Right-Wing Infrastructure on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and Twitter in Germany

    Through an in-depth mapping exercise, a CEP research and analysis project produced an inventory of the most relevant actors of right-wing extremism in Germany.
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  • The Far Right on Facebook

    Even though the company explicitly bans hate speech and hate groups in its Community Standards, Facebook appears to have a reactive approach to removing neo-Nazi and white supremacist content from its platform.
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  • The Financing of Right-wing and Ethnically or Racially Motivated Terrorism

    On the 7th of December 2020, the Counter Extremism Project (CEP) hosted a virtual side event, co-sponsored by Germany, Norway, the United Kingdom and the United States

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  • The Houthis and U.S.-Designated Foreign Terrorist Organizations

    This report examines how the Houthis have facilitated financial support to Hezbollah and Hamas, and explores the extent to which Houthi government officials, corporations, and private individuals have been similarly involved.
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  • The Houthis: Terrorizing Women and Journalists

    This report examines the Houthis’ systematic abuse of women and journalists and maps out the Houthi mechanics of repression.
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  • The Houthis’ Use of Technology for Repression

    This report examines Houthi efforts to gain control of Yemen’s telecommunications companies, and how these companies have since become key sources of intelligence and funding for the terror organization ruling much of Yemen.
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  • The Input: Pathways to Jihad

    GLOBSEC studied the phenomenon of a crime-terror nexus in Europe. It developed a dataset of 348 individuals arrested for terrorism offences, expelled for alleged terrorist connections, or who died while staging terrorist attacks in Europe in 2015, the peak year of European jihadism.
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  • The Input: Pathways to Jihad, Vol. 2

    This report picks up where the previous report published within the framework of the project run by GLOBSEC and the Counter Extremism Project, The Input: Pathways to Jihad. A Thematic Analysis of 310 Cases, left off in early April 2019.
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  • The Many Criminal Heads of the Golden Hydra

    The Tri-Border Area that straddles the intersection of Argentina, Paraguay and Brazil is considered the “Golden Hydra,” as it is the lucrative regional entry point of many transnational criminal organizations and foreign terrorist organizations.
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Daily Dose

Extremists: Their Words. Their Actions.

Fact:

On October 7, 2023, Hamas invaded southern Israel where, in the space of eight hours, hundreds of armed terrorists perpetrated mass crimes of brutality, rape, and torture against men, women and children. In the biggest attack on Jewish life in a single day since the Holocaust, 1,200 were killed, and 251 were taken hostage into Gaza—where 101 remain. One year on, antisemitic incidents have increased by record numbers. 

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