CEP Senior Director Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler on Iranian shelling of Kurdish groups in Iraq's Kurdistan region: "I'm not yet aware that there are major troop movements across the border, which would be something new...This was a warning shot against...

ISIS Redux: The Central Syria Insurgency in September 2022

Following is the September 2022 installment of “ISIS Redux: The Central Syria Insurgency,” a monthly chronicle of attacks by the terrorist group ISIS in central Syria. A review of developments throughout 2021 can be found here , and previous editions...

CEP Senior Research Analyst Sofia Koller and CEP Advisor Liam Duffy in European Eye on Radicalization Webinar

This event is a European Eye on Radicalization webinar looking at the debate over repatriating Islamic State (ISIS) foreign fighters from the camps in Syria. Despite the destruction of ISIS’s “caliphate” taking place in March 2019, more than three...

CEP Senior Director Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler on GLOBAL with JJ Green

"Iran's IRGC accused of launching cross-border attacks in Iraq to quell support for protest movement." Hans-Jakob Schindler, Sr. Director of the Counter Extremism Project, says the Iranian regime is concerned that the "chaos that this regime created"...

"Hans-Jakob Schindler, Sr. Director of the Counter Extremism Project, says the Iranian regime is concerned that the "chaos that this regime created" could spill over into ethnic unrest."

CEP Senior Research Analyst Sofia Koller and CEP Advisor Liam Duffy participated in a webinar hosted by European Eye on Radicalization (EER), on the thorny issue of whether jihadist foreign fighters from Europe and their families should be brought...

CEP Senior Advisor Dr. Hany Farid quoted: "'The question OpenAI should ask itself is: Do we think the benefits outweigh the drawbacks?' said UC Berkeley professor Hany Farid, who specializes in digital forensics, computer vision, and misinformation....

Iran’s IRGC Launches Cross-Border Attacks In Iraq To Quell Support For Protest Movement

Since Saturday, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Crops (IRGC) has launched numerous attacks on Iranian Kurdish separatist groups in northern Iraq—the Komala Party of Iranian Kurdistan and the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan. The groups had...

"Former British ambassador to Yemen Edmund Fitton-Brown has said that ISIS could make more jailbreak attempts in Syria and that the country's detention camps are a 'ticking time bomb'. In a webinar focused on the terror threat to Europe, hosted by...

Tech & Terrorism: YouTube And Meta Platforms Announce New Effort To Fight Online Extremism

Last week, Google-owned YouTube along with Meta announced that they would expand their efforts to fight online extremism. YouTube stated that the company would “expand its policies on violent extremism to remove content that glorifies violent acts...