How the Islamic State terrorist group used culture to fund its terrorism activities
An important source of Daesh’s funding came from the looting and illicit sale of cultural artefacts in Syria and Iraq. It is estimated that the...
Terror Financing
Yousser Company for Finance and Investment
Bayt al-Mal and the Yousser Company function as Hizballah's unofficial treasury, holding and investing its assets and serving as intermediaries between the terrorist group and...
Martyrs Foundation
The Martyrs Foundation is an Iranian parastatal organization that channels financial support from Iran to several terrorist organizations in the Levant, including Hizballah, Hamas, and...
Husayn al-Shami
Husayn al-Shami, the head of Bayt al-Mal, is a senior Hizballah leader who has served as a member of Hizballah's Shura Council and as the...
Pro-Palestinian charity funneled money to Hamas terrorist group
A pro-Palestinian charity allegedly funneled money to Hamas, a Palestinian terror group controlling the Gaza strip, terror victims claimed in an unprecedented lawsuit filed this...
Saudi court convict 38 people on terrorism-related charges
A Saudi Arabian court has convicted 38 people of financing terrorism and declaring other Muslims non-believers, handing out sentences ranging from 30 months to 25...
Amadou Kouffa
Amadou Kouffa is a senior member in Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM), an al-Qa’ida affiliate active in the Sahel region of Africa. JNIM was formed...
Pakistani authorities need to walk the talk on terror funding
On November 1 2019, the US State Department released a report on terrorism. The Congress-mandated report was the official US assessment on the state of...
Financing terrorism in Syria charges stick for French concrete giant Lafarge
A French court has let construction giant Lafarge off the hook for crimes against humanity despite working with terrorists like ISIL in northern Syria for...
Russian authorities thwared activities of Islamic State supporters in Dagestan
The Federal Security Service (FSB) in cooperation with other agencies, has twarted activity of a cell of supporters of the Islamic State group who had...
Bank Markazi Jomhouri Islami Iran
Since at least 2016, the IRGC-QF has received the vast majority of its foreign currency from the CBI and senior CBI officials have worked directly...
Australian home affairs minister warns of using online payment systems and cryptocurrencies for funding terrorism
Australia's home affairs minister has warned that online payment systems and cryptocurrencies are increasingly being used to fund terrorism. In a speech to the "No...