Islamic State Is Increasingly Using Crypto to Fund Africa Militant Goals
Islamic State is increasingly using cryptocurrencies such as Tether to raise and move money around the world, including in Africa, according to a group of...
Month: March 2024
Nearly 30,000 children are suffering human rights abuses in Syria, UN-backed commission says
Five years after the Islamic State group lost the last sliver of land it controlled in Syria, nearly 30,000 children of militants and their supporters...
Palestinian Islamic Jihad calls for Ramadan to be ‘month of terror and panic’
Palestinian Islamic Jihad is calling for the Islamic holy month of Ramadan to be filled with "terror and panic," and for the first day of...
US targets al Shabaab fundraisers, money launderers with sanctions
The U.S. Department of the Treasury on Monday imposed sanctions on what it said was an international fundraising and money-laundering network for the al Shabaab...
‘Waiting for the storm’: Israelis and Palestinians fear difficult week as Ramadan starts
Israelis and Palestinians are bracing themselves for a tense and potentially violent week, with no sign of a ceasefire likely in Gaza and calls from...
Hamas leader dubbed ‘Gaza’s bin Laden’ exposed for using depraved torture tactics
A Hamas leader dubbed 'Gaza's bin Laden' used depraved torture methods, like burying people alive, secret documents have found. Israeli soldiers deployed in the Gaza...
Hamas-Linked Website Warns Palestinians Not to Work With Israel’
A Hamas-linked website on Monday warned Palestinian individuals or groups against co-operating with Israel to provide security for aid convoys amid the five-month-old war in...
Hezbollah stages drone strike on Israeli outpost in Golan Heights
Lebanon's Hezbollah group said it carried out a drone attack on Monday against an Israeli air defence outpost across the border in the Israeli-occupied Golan...
Iraq to Set up Barbed Wire Fence to Secure Border with Iran
Iraq has kicked off a plan to erect a barbed wire fence to secure its borders with Iran. The move is taking place days after...
Mapping the Turkish Military’s Expanding Global Footprint
Not since the days of the Ottoman Empire has the Turkish military had such an extensive footprint. In addition to its 50-year military presence in...
The Big Problem With Iran’s Strategy in the Middle East: It Works
No doubt about it: The Israel-Hamas War has radically altered the trajectory of the Middle East’s politics and injected a level of volatility into developments...
Two decades after the Madrid train bombings, violent extremism is far from over
Two decades ago, on March 11, 2004, Europe was shaken by what is still one of the deadliest terror attacks on its soil. The Madrid...