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April 27, 2017

ISIS’s Systematic Brutality Against Religious Communities Continues

As Pope Francis prepares for a peace-building trip to Egypt, CEP released a new report detailing the extent of ISIS’s ongoing campaign of genocidal violence and incendiary rhetoric against Muslims, Yazidis , Christians, and Mandaeans , and other...

Press Release

April 20, 2017

ISIS and Al-Qaeda, Linked by Roots in Muslim Brotherhood, Discuss Alliance

Rivals ISIS and al-Qaeda, are reportedly discussing forging an alliance. Although they split in 2014 and have been competing since, CEP notes that their shared origins in the Muslim Brotherhood and its ideology based on the writings of Sayyid Qutb...

Press Release

April 12, 2017

ISIS Church Bombings Fit Pattern of Targeting Christian, Jewish Sites

The April 9 ISIS bombings at two Coptic Christian churches in Egypt that killed 49 people fit a grisly pattern of extremists targeting Christian and Jewish sites, CEP noted, in releasing its new analysis report, Terror Targets in the West: Where and...

Press Release

April 7, 2017

CEP Condemns Truck Attack in Stockholm, Releases Resource on Vehicles as Terror Weapons

CEP today released a statement in response to a vehicular attack in downtown Stockholm, Sweden, and a new resource on the use of cars and trucks as weapons of terrorism. The resource notes that attacks using vehicles were carried out beginning in...

Press Release

April 4, 2017

New Handbook to Assist German Educators with Radicalisation, Complex Cultural Issues

CEP and the European Foundation for Democracy (EFD), at an event held in Berlin, Germany, today announced the publication of a handbook designed to help German educators understand and properly respond to difficult and sensitive cultural and...

Press Release

April 3, 2017

CEP Condemns Bomb Attack on Russian Metro

CEP strongly condemned today's terror attack carried out on the St. Petersburg Metro that claimed the lives of at least 10 people. The CEP statement read in part, "We must continue to be diligent and relentless in our fight to confront radicalization...

Press Release

March 30, 2017

London Attacker Lived in U.K. City Burdened by Past Links to Well-Known Extremists

London terrorist Khalid Masood—who killed four people and wounded dozens in London March 22—lived in Luton , a town known as a bastion of Islamic and far-right extremism. In its newest report, CEP profiles 10 areas in Europe, Australia, and North...

Press Release

March 29, 2017

Encrypted Messaging Platform WhatsApp’s Role in U.S. Terror Cases

The investigation into the March 22 London terror attack has focused in part on the Khalid Masood's possible use of encrypted application WhatsApp minutes before killing three pedestrians and a police officer. CEP has found that WhatsApp has also...

Press Release

March 27, 2017

CEP Analysis: Converts Who Became Foreign Fighters, Recruiters, and Domestic Terrorists

As terrorist groups like ISIS and al-Qaeda continue to search for new followers capable of being radicalized to violence, CEP is releasing a new report that explores the diverse backgrounds of 131 American, Canadian, European, and Australian converts...

Press Release

March 24, 2017

Advertiser Revolt Underscores Need for Google to Address Ubiquity of Extremist Content on YouTube

CEP said today that while Google has promised to revamp its policies after American and European companies complained of ads appearing next to extremist videos on YouTube, a bigger problem is the presence of more than 70,000 Anwar Al-Awlaki videos on...

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Extremists: Their Words. Their Actions.

Fact:

On January 23, 2019, two car bombs exploded outside of a mosque in Benghazi, Libya, killing 41 people and injuring 80 others. No group claimed responsibility for the blast, but remnants suggested an ISIS affiliate was responsible.  

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