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The first Syrian rebel group to be given U.S. weapons collapsed Sunday after losing control of its headquarters to Syria’s main al-Qaeda affiliate, further complicating American-led efforts to counter the rise of extremism in Syria.
What is the Islamic State? Where did it come from, and what are its intentions? The simplicity of these questions can be deceiving, and few Western leaders seem to know the answers.
FATF’s report on the financing of the Financing of the Terrorist Organisation Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) analyses how this terrorist organisation generates and uses its funding. This knowledge is crucial in order to determine how FATF and the international comm
Terrorism is an increasingly global problem that requires concerted global action by a united international community. The ISIL phenomenon shows a new type of terrorist organisation with unique funding streams that are crucial to its activities; cutting off this financing is therefore critically important.
The Islamic State, which is considered to be the world’s richest terrorist group, is starting to feel the squeeze on its two biggest sources of revenue: black-market oil sales and stolen assets, according to the Pentagon. Money from oil is down thanks to U.S.-led coalition airstrikes, which have hit Islamic State-held oil refineries and fuel convoys. But the U.S.
The reports are like something out of a distant era of ancient conquests: entire villages emptied, with hundreds taken prisoner, others kept as slaves; the destruction of irreplaceable works of art; a tax on religious minorities, payable in gold.
Today Mr. Michel Sapin, French Minister of Finance and Public Accounts, opened the FATF Plenary meeting which will continue until Friday 27 February. In his speech M.
Almost 100 Syrian artifacts looted by the Islamic State have been smuggled into Britain and sold to raise money for the extremist group’s activities, art crime experts and archaeologists have warned, according to British news organizations.
In the fallout of the 2008 financial crisis, the habits of Wall Street—and more broadly, the banking industry worldwide—became front and center in the media: From excessive risk taking, to rate