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The U.S. government is intensifying efforts to stop the flow of money to the terror group Hezbollah as officials work more closely with their European counterparts to stymie the organization’s international financial network.
Even under jihadi rule, death and taxes remain the two great certainties of life. Some learn that the hard way.
On December, 2009, Harouna Touré and Idriss Abdelrahman, smugglers from northern Mali, walked through the doors of the Golden Tulip, a hotel in Accra, Ghana. They were there to meet with two men who had offered them an opportunity to make millions of dollars, transporting cocaine across the Sahara.
WHEN Islamic State burst out of Syria in June 2014, seizing Mosul, Iraq’s second city, and nearly reaching Baghdad, it became the richest terror organisation in history. It plundered the banks in Mosul, including the Central Bank, whose vaults contained an estimated $425m.
The so-called Islamic State (IS) has made more than $500m (£330m) trading oil, a US treasury official has said. Its "primary customer" has been the government of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad, despite its ongoing battle to overthrow the regime, Adam Szubin told the BBC.
ISIS loots archaeological sites, universities, libraries and private collections to generate revenue for the organization.
Many media outlets have underscored the fact that the alleged killers in last week's mass shooting in San Bernardino, Calif., took out a loan from a marketplace lender, implicitly or explicitly raising questions about whether online lenders are more susceptible to being exploited by terrorists.
The Islamic State (IS) has used weapons from more than 25 different countries – including the US – to commit atrocities in Iraq and Syria, according to new research released this week.
The finance minister and two other senior leaders of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS or ISIL) were killed in airstrikes in Iraq in late November, the Pentagon confirmed Thursday.