These days, the foreign fighters phenomenon is omnipresent on the agenda of police officers, prosecutors, de-radicalisation experts, researchers, policy makers, municipalities, governments, international organisations and think and do tanks. The problem is too complex and multi-faceted to analyse in just a few pages, so the following commentary, based on a…

Flows of foreign fighters to the current conflicts in Syria and Iraq are recent examples of a broader phenomenon that has seen tens of thousands of individuals travel to various conflict zones in the Middle East, North Africa, and elsewhere over the last three decades.1 In February 2015, the U.S….

Arguably, there has been only limited discussion of the issue of the involvement of a number of Indonesian Muslim youth in radicalism and terrorism. One can refer to a few research conducted by such institutions as the PPIM and CSRC UIN Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta, and LAKIP that showed the tendency…

The purpose of this intelligence summary is to document and assess the significance of open source reports regarding ISIS (the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham) activity outside of Iraq and Syria (ISIS Abroad).

The threat of online radicalisation has come into greater focus since the start of the Syrian conflict, and particularly with the rise of ISIS. With social media networks, the dissemination and transmission of terrorist and extremist propaganda on the World Wide Web has grown rampant, and ISIS has exploited this…

• The domestic terror attack on June 17 in Charleston, South Carolina is a tragic reminder that not every terrorist carries a black flag, though they all carry the ideology of hate • Unlike hierarchical organized groups such as the Islamic State, violent racist extremists in the U.S. move about…

Despite a year of pressure on the group, the Islamic State has increased its operational capabilities outside of Iraq and Syria: • As of now, the Islamic State is made up of 30 self-proclaimed ‘wilayats’ (states or provinces), with lessening operational presence and influence the further away from Iraq and…

As the global US-led bombing campaign against ISIS approaches its first anniversary, the US is seeing an apparent rise in ISIS-related cases within its own borders.

In this research paper, ICCT Research Fellow Dr. Bibi van Ginkel analyses the role of the internet and social media in processes of radicalisation. It offers an outline of the various aspects of the jihadist narrative, in order better to understand what message needs to be countered. The counter-actions against…

t’s time to ponder a troubling possibility: What should we do if the Islamic State wins? By “wins,” I don’t mean it spreads like wildfire throughout the Muslim world, eventually establishing a caliphate from Baghdad to Rabat and beyond. That’s what its leaders say they are going to do, but…

Since the declaration of the so-called caliphate by the Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS), the group has been able to attract fighters from around the world to join its ranks. Southeast Asia is not exempted from this phenomenon, where hundreds of Southeast Asians have already travelled to…

We, the members of the Ministerial Council of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, Reaffirming Permanent Council Decision No. 1063 on the OSCE Consolidated Framework for the Fight against Terrorism, and other relevant OSCE documents adopted in the field of countering terrorism, and reiterating our strong support for…