Reclaiming Al Shabaab’s revenue
Cutting off al Shabaab’s estimated $100 million in extortion-generated annual revenue will require restoring the integrity of Somalia’s compromised financial, judicial, and intelligence agencies. Despite...
Terrorism In The World
Over 1200 people killed and injured by Al-Shabaab
Over 1,200 Somalis may have been killed or injured through Al-Shabaab's attacks mainly through landmines and Improvised Explosive Devices [IEDs], a report compiled by the...
Seven anti-aircraft rockets fired from Gaza towards Israel overnight
Five of them towards the Israeli territory and two towards the sea in the Gaza Strip Rocket sirens sounded in the Israeli territory bordering the...
Trinidad to bring home stranded ISIS fighters
A spirited discussion is underway in Trinidad about governmental intervention to bring back more than 100 locals who had idealistically left the southern Caribbean island...
War on terror and Securitization expansion in Pakistan
Terrorism is an old phenomenon which has been prevailing in the world in distinct shapes by different groups like communists, fascist, radicals and separatists to...
Women caught in Syria during fight against ISIS returning to Canada
Canadian women captured during the defeat of ISIS are on their way home after the federal government agreed to bring them back from Syria. “I’m...
Security alert after IS threat over ‘love jihad’
With propaganda material of global terror outfit ISIS surfacing, carrying threats to resort to “mass murders and beheadings” in protest against laws being enacted against...
Taliban carries out deadly raid on ISIL hideout in Afghanistan
Taliban forces have killed six members of the ISIL armed group (ISIS) in Afghanistan’s northern Balkh province during an overnight raid, a Taliban spokesman said...
Five arrested over ISIS-related terror attack plans in Sweden
Five men were arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to commit a terrorist attack in Sweden on Tuesday in apparent retaliation for the Quran burning committed...
Towards a More Progressive Approach to Studying the Salafi-Jihadi Movement
The ongoing struggle against the Salafi-Jihadi movement will require reflection on multiple levels to achieve a genuinely progressive and evidence-based approach. This reflection will focus...
Why did the US sanction the Rahme brothers?
The US has imposed sanctions on two Lebanese businessmen for profiting from public corruption, the Treasury Department announced on Tuesday evening.
US slaps sanctions on two brothers in Lebanon for corruption
The US Treasury Department imposed sanctions Tuesday on two Lebanese brothers accused of using their business and political connections to enrich themselves while Lebanon’s economic...