U.K. Review Raises Concerns about Operations of Muslim Brotherhood

In December, the United Kingdom published long-awaited findings from its internal review of the Muslim Brotherhood’s ideology and activities. Prime Minister David Cameron had commissioned this review in early 2014 to better understand the origins and...

Counter Extremism Project Supports Twitter's Renewed Effort to Battle Extremists; Calls for Even Stronger Response to Violent Extremism

(New York, NY) – The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) applauds Twitter’s announcement of its renewed efforts to suspend accounts tied to violent extremist groups and their supporters. Eighteen months after CEP initially raised the alarm over the...

Twitter, an American social networking website, says since 2015 it has deleted 125,000 accounts linked to the Daesh (ISIL) Takfiri group. The California-based company made the announcement, adding it has stepped up its fight against violent extremism...

There are at least 40 Americans – far more than previously believed – actively serving in the Islamist terror group Al Shabaab, including dozens of radicalized killers from Minnesota’s prominent Somali-American community, experts told Fox News. "In...

Forces fighting the terror thugs of ISIS captured a bizarre pick-up truck with tank-style treads. In October an investigation was launched into how so many Toyotas ended up in the hands of ISIS. Mark Wallace, a former US Ambassador to the United...

All In The Family

Families faced with the horror of losing a loved one to the lure of ISIS propaganda have often chosen collective action in the hopes of stopping radicalization and emigration to ISIS controlled areas. But other families have chosen to wage their...

CEP Resource Details Rise, Tactics of Violent Pakistani Terror Group Lashkar-e-Taiba

CEP released a new resource detailing the history and violent activities of Islamic terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), which has played a central role in indoctrinating, recruiting, and training thousands of jihadists in Pakistan since the 1980s. In...

CEP Resource Details History, Leadership of National Democratic Party of Germany

CEP released a new resource on the National Democratic Party of Germany, an ultranationalist political party described by the German intelligence service as “racist, anti-Semitic and revisionist."

New Year’s Eve Attacks in Cologne Threaten EU Support for Refugees

On New Year’s Eve in Cologne, Germany, a group of some 1,000 young men congregated outside the city’s main railway station near the Cologne Cathedral and systematically began to physically and sexually assault women.

ICYMI: CEP CEO Mark D. Wallace Calls on YouTube to Remove Notorious Cleric Anwar al-Awlaki in USA Today Op-Ed

CEP CEO Ambassador Mark D. Wallace, in an op-ed published in USA Today January 25, called on video sharing platform YouTube to immediately remove videos of the notorious American cleric turned al-Qaeda propagandist Anwar al-Awlaki.