A Twin Cities man, Mohamed Abdullahi Hassan, who joined the terrorist group al-Shabab in Somalia seven years ago, has surrendered to authorities in the African country, the State Department said Monday. The Counter Extremism Project’s David Ibsen has...

FBI Director James Comey today confirmed that the probe into the massacre in San Bernardino is now “a federal terrorism investigation” as a result of evidence that the killers were “radicalized” and “potentially inspired” by foreign terrorist...

Counter Extremism Project Releases Statement on News that San Bernardino Shooter Pledged Allegiance to ISIS

CEP released the following statement in response to news reports that one of the shooters in the December 2, San Bernadino, California, attack pledged allegiance to ISIS in a Facebook posting.

Islamic extremism and the ideology that drives it is corrosive to the fabric of democracy and threatens to "spread through the generations" unless effective and urgent preventive measures are taken. That was one of the key messages to emerge from a...

Islamic extremism and the ideology that drives it is corrosive to the fabric of democracy and threatens to "spread through the generations" unless effective and urgent preventive measures are taken. That was one of the key messages to emerge from a...

Who is driving Israeli-Palestinian Violence?

On November 19, a Palestinian man in the West Bank Israeli settlement of Gush Etzion fired a submachine gun into a crowd and then rammed his car into another. The attacker killed five people, including 18-year-old Ezra Schwartz of Sharon...

NGOs already exist in different parts of the world, formed by former extremists, experienced educators, artists, media creators, religious leaders and young Muslims. They are making an impact but need organizational, financial and resource support...

CEP Applauds OFAC Designation of Syrian Businessman George Haswani for Facilitation of ISIS Oil Trade

The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) applauded the U.S. Department of the Treasury for sanctioning Syrian businessman George Haswani for his role in arranging Syrian regime oil purchases from the terrorist group ISIS. CEP called for the Treasury...

It’s time for Twitter to step up. The micro-blogging site has refused to stamp out the considerable presence of terrorists on its network. Whereas Facebook is open to discussions of counterterrorism measures, Twitter’s response has been different....

Key allies in the US and UK led war on Islamic State (IS) are covertly financing the terrorist movement according to senior political sources in the region. US and British oil companies are heavily invested in the murky geopolitical triangle...