CEP Applauds Facebook and Twitter for Shutting Down Hamas Accounts for Inciting Violence

(New York, NY) – The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) today applauded reports that social media companies Facebook and Twitter had suspended accounts connected to the terror group Hamas and issued the following statement, attributable to CEO...

Counter Extremism Project Strategic Policy Analyst Supna Zaidi Peery to Testify Before House Committee on Homeland Security

CEP Strategic Policy Analyst Supna Zaidi Peery will testify before the House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Counterterrorism and Intelligence on April 27. The hearing will examine the current threat ISIS affiliates and its supporters pose to U.S...

CEP Research Analyst Marielle Harris details in this blog the sophisticated weaponry in the possession of ISIS, including anti-aircraft missiles, chemical weapons, and programmable driverless car bombs. Harris says no one should doubt ISIS’s ability...

The Aspen Security Forum, a conference series that has become a fixture on the national security calendar, last week travelled abroad for the first time, to London. Twitter and social media at large found itself in the crosshairs of frustrated...

Two British men convicted of plotting Islamic State-inspired shooting attacks on the streets of London were each handed life sentences by a judge on Friday. "Of the 350 British foreign fighters to have returned to the U.K., at least 70 are considered...

Grassroots Solutions Empower the U.K.’s PREVENT Strategy

In March, David Anderson Q.C. and Lord Carlile of Berriew Q.C. appeared before the Human Rights Committee in Parliament to discuss the human rights ramifications of the U.K. Government’s PREVENT programme, which aims to safeguard people from the...

CEP Director of Research Julie Shain explains in this blog how ISIS is using its English language magazine to try and silence Western Muslim scholars and personalities. She argues that critics of ISIS who challenge violent extremism deserve the...

The Emerging ISIS Front in Bangladesh

While the Bangladeshi government continues to deny the presence of ISIS within its borders, increased violence against religious minorities and foreigners attributed to pro-ISIS militants has many asking if Islamist militancy is on the rise in that...

Following the March 22 attacks in Belgium, Politico asked CEP Brussels Director Roberta Bonazzi and six other prominent policy analysts, writers and politicians to respond to the question, "What — if anything — is really wrong in Belgium? And how can...

What Comes Next for Thwarted Foreign Fighters?

In early March, French officials successfully prevented two girls from leaving to join ISIS in Syria, and the country collectively breathed a sigh of relief. But what happens next? What happens to the kids who are saved from falling under the spell...