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In 2012, the Syrian civil war reached the suburbs of Damascus. Army tanks rolled over anti-government protesters in Ghouta; artillery shells fell on Darayya. One morning that May, a car bomb exploded in the town of Jdeidet Artouz, southwest of the capital. The blast jolted Ghaith, a twenty-two-year-old law student, out of bed.
The Financial Action Task Force, an international body that sets standards for anti-money laundering and combating terrorist financing, said Ecuador and Sudan are no longer on its blacklist.
By entering the Syrian war, Russia has joined hands with Iran in trying to rescue President Bashar al-Assad’s regime. But is this a durable alliance—or just a temporary convergence of interests that may implode as the conflict progresses?
With Israelis and Palestinians caught in another widening cycle of bloodshed, Secretary of State John Kerry met with Prime Minister
Myanmar’s jade trade, a secretive industry driving armed conflict and rampant drug abuse, was worth as much as $31 billi
Some Swiss banks loaded funds onto untraceable debit cards. At another, clients who wanted to transfer cash used code phrases such as “Can you download some tunes for us?” One bank allowed a client to convert Swiss francs into gold, which was then stored in a relative’s safe-deposit box.
While black-clad ISIS terrorists may seem far away, security experts here at home are sounding warning bells that ISIS-sponsored hackers are probing the nation’s electric grid. FBI experts say the attempts haven’t had much success, but Congress is concerned enough to hold hearings on the topic this morning in Washington.
Iran’s supreme leader gave approval Wednesday to the country’s landmark nuclear deal with world powers, effectively silencing any internal opposition but warning that Tehran must keep pressure on the West to ease economic sanctions as promised.
The United Kingdom welcomed Chinese President Xi Jinping to London on Tuesday with a ride to Buckingham Palace in a horse-drawn gilded carriage. The queen was his seatmate. On Wednesday, Xi is expected to repay the elaborate hospitality by getting down to the real business of his state visit: doling out massive quantities of cash.
When Abdirashid Duale, the chief executive of Dahabshiil, Africa’s largest money-transfer business, visits Hargeisa, the capital of Somaliland, a breakaway province of Somalia, he cannot walk down the street easily. It is not that his security is under threat. It is that with every step, another businessman stops to greet him.