National security hawks pressing social media companies to help the U.S. government's online fight against the Islamic State are adopting a new strategy: single out Twitter as the most uncooperative. That message will be on display next week in New...

Similarities of Hate: White Supremacists and Islamic Extremists

Dylann Storm Roof, a Confederate flag-toting gunman, murdered nine congregants at the storied Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in downtown Charleston, South Carolina, on June 17. Emanuel is one of the oldest black churches in the United...

On September 16, the Counter Extremism Project (CEP) announced it will co-host the “One95: Global Youth Summit Against Violent Extremism,” an event supported by the U.S Department of State and driven by the power and ideas of young people in the...

Global Summit in NYC to Launch Youth Driven Fight Against Extremism

Counter Extremism Project leading effort, backed by State Department and White House, with multi-nation kickoff event September 28. (New York, NY) – The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) announced today it will co-host the “Global Youth Summit Against...

“All rise,” said the bailiff as Judge Claude M. Hilton entered his courtroom in Alexandria, Virginia on a late August morning. Seventeen-year-old Ali Shukri Amin was being sentenced for providing material support to a terror organization. Everyone...

Americans Not Immune to the Siren Song of ISIS, Other Extremist Groups

At what point did Jaylyn Young, the daughter of a police officer, transition from being a high achieving, practical chemistry major at Mississippi State University to a meticulous planner of a one way trip to join ISIS in Syria with her boyfriend...

It appears coalition airstrikes may have caught up to a French foreign fighter who was peddling advanced bomb-making skills for an al-Qaida cell in Syria. A U.S. official speaking on the condition of anonymity told VOA the Khorasan Group’s David...

CEP Profiles American Foreign Fighters, Financiers, and Supporters of ISIS and Other Extremist Groups

CEP is releasing profiles of 66 Americans who have joined or allegedly attempted to join the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) as well as other Americans accused of planning attacks on U.S. soil, providing financial assistance to extremist...

Are British taxpayers supporting a radical cleric?

I recently wrote about Ahmad Jibril, an Islamist preacher in Michigan who has become one of the most influential cheerleaders for foreign fighters in Iraq and Syria. Jibril is not the only Islamist preacher living in relative comfort under Western...

CEP Releases New Resources on the Haqqani Network in Afghanistan and Pakistan

CEP is releasing new resources on violent Islamist group the Haqqani network and its leaders in Afghanistan and Pakistan. The Haqqani network was identified by U.S. officials as being responsible for recent bombings and attacks in the Afghan capital.