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January 12, 2024

"Houthi rebels have promised to retaliate for airstrikes carried out by the US and UK in Yemen. Washington and London say they hit the targets to protect international shipping from Houthis attacks. Counter extremism expert Hans-Jakob Schindler says...

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January 12, 2024

CEP Senior Advisor Ambassador Edmund Fitton-Brown: "The great majority threat is from Islamist extremists. And yes...white supremacists...there is a problem of that kind in the U.K. And it should be taken seriously. But I worry that there may be some...

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January 12, 2024

COUNTERPOINT BRIEF: RETALIATORY STRIKES LAUNCHED AGAINST HOUTHI TARGETS

(New York, N.Y.) — Yesterday, a U.S.-led coalition launched retaliatory strikes against Iran-backed Houthi rebel targets in Yemen in an effort to weaken the group’s ability to conduct its campaign against commercial shipping in the Red Sea. Together...

Extremism News Roundup

January 12, 2024

Eye on Extremism: January 12, 2024

“The U.S. military has unleashed large-scale retaliatory airstrikes against multiple Houthi targets in Yemen following months of attacks by the Iranian-backed militants on commercial shipping in the Red Sea, a U.S. official said Thursday. The...

Videos

January 11, 2024

CEP Webinar: How the Houthis Control Telecommunications in Yemen | Ari Heistein

Presentation: Ari Heistein, Author of the CEP report series, Yemen Specialist and Defense Technology Professional On January 11, 2024, CEP hosted a webinar to present a new, in-depth report concerning a major source of Houthi intelligence and revenue...

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January 11, 2024

"Joshua Fisher-Birch, an analyst of the extreme right for the Counter Extremism Project, has kept tabs on rightwing extremists and their fascination with Ukraine. 'Chatter among the American online extreme right regarding travel to Ukraine to fight...

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January 11, 2024

CEP Webinar: How the Houthis Control Telecommunications in Yemen | Edmund Fitton-Brown

Discussant: Amb. Edmund Fitton-Brown, Senior Advisor, Counter Extremism Project (CEP) On January 11, 2024, CEP hosted a webinar to present a new, in-depth report concerning a major source of Houthi intelligence and revenue: telecommunications in...

CounterPoint Blog

ISIS Redux: The Central Syria Insurgency in December 2023

Following is the December 2023 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 2022 and 2021 can be found here and here. The...

Extremism News Roundup

January 11, 2024

Eye on Extremism: January 11, 2024

“The number of antisemitic incidents in the U.S. rose sharply in the three months after the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel, according to new data from the Anti-Defamation League, which tracked a total of 3,283 anti-Jewish incidents between Oct. 7 and...

CounterPoint Blog

Violence-Oriented Right-Wing Extremist Actors in Russia: Club of Angry Patriots- Part 1

During the past decade and a half, extremist non-state actors in Russia have become a central element of the violent transnational right-wing extremist milieu. The Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2014 and particularly its re-invasion of the country in...

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Extremists: Their Words. Their Actions.

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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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