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For more than 30 years, April 18 for my family has been the day the Earth stood still. My relatives and I call and write one another, sharing tears and memories, seeking solace and strength. On that day in 1983, Hezbollah terrorists, backed by the Iranian government, murdered my father, 16 other Americans and numerous others in a suicide truck bombing at the U.S. Embassy in Beirut.
As authorities around the globe grapple with the threat of terrorism, Gov. Andrew M.
Three times a month, Mohammad al-Kirayfawai hands $300 to fighters from the Islamic State for the privilege of driving his refrigerated truck full of ice cream and other perishables from Jordan to a part of Iraq where the militants
The Treasury Department today announced new sanctions on Russian and Syrian individuals and businesses for providing support to the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and purchasing oil from the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq.
French Finance Minister Michel Sapin launched an initiative Monday to toughen laws on terrorism financing, and called on Europe and G20 countries to speed up their efforts to improve cooperation on the matter.
The terrorist attack in Paris has Americans worried, particularly since ISIS, whose murderous adherents carried out that savagery, has threatened to cause similar carnage in this country. Beyond vigilance and close attention to intelligence, it’s sometimes difficult to identify concrete steps that could prevent or mitigate possible attacks.
Despite aggressive efforts to wall off the Islamic State from the formal financial system, the group has still found ways to access the banking system to facilitate major transfers linked to its oil sales and to move small amounts of cash as well — possibly even to finance attacks.
The spillover of the Syrian refugee crisis to Europe, followed by the Sinai, Beirut, and Paris attacks, demonstrate tragically that the threat posed by Isis has not been contained.
The recent terrorist attacks in Paris are likely to lead to a ratcheting up of global enforcement against terrorism financing and money laundering, experts say.
Europe’s justice and interior ministers tasked the Commission on Friday with finding ways to starve terrorist groups of their funding, in response to last week’s attacks in Paris by Islamic State (ISIL).