CEP Research Analyst Gregory Waters, co-author of report, writes: "ISIS is waging a resilient insurgency throughout central and north-eastern Syria. It treats these two quasi-independent zones as interconnected theatres, giving it flexibility in its strategy for reasserting territorial control. The myriad forces battling the group, meanwhile, often work at cross-purposes."

"On Tuesday, the Pentagon announced that a U.S. drone strike killed a leader of the Islamic State group in Syria. On this week’s episode of “The Hunt” with WTOP national security correspondent J.J. Green, the senior director at the Counter Extremism Project, Hans-Jakob Schindler, explains who he was and why he was so important."

CEP Senior Director Hans-Jakob Schindler interviewed: "Terrorismus-Experte Hans-Jakob Schindler spricht bei WELT über die Tötung des Anführers der Dschihadistenmiliz Islamischer Staat (IS) in Syrien. Maher Al-Agal gehörte zum „engsten Führungskreis der Organisation“. Er wurde durch einen US-Drohnenangriff im Nordwesten des Landes getötet."

On July 12, 2022, Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler, Senior Director of the Counter Extremism Project, joined GLOBAL with JJ Green for episode, "U.S. military kills 'mysterious' ISIS leader. Who was Maher al-Agal?" Dr. Schindler revealed who Agal was and why ISIS is still such a major threat.

CEP Senior Research Analyst Sofia Koller writes:  "After three years of obstacles and indecision, France has finally decided to repatriate some of its citizens. While bringing people affiliated with ISIS back to French soil might seem incredibly risky at best and naive at worst, repatriation is still the most effective solution to the foreign fighter dilemma."

"A drone strike by the U.S.-led coalition in northwestern Syria killed a senior member of an al-Qaida-linked group. His name was Abu Hamza al-Yemeni.

On this week’s episode of 'The Hunt with WTOP National Security Correspondent J.J. Green,' Dr. Hans Jakob Schindler, senior director of the Counter Extremism Project, explains who he was."

"Gregory Waters, Analyst at the Counter Extremism Project and fellow at the Middle East Institute, said there are no signs that reports of major Russian troop withdrawals and Iranian fighters replacing them are correct, despite the obvious ratcheting up of Israel's air campaign."