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European Union countries plan a crackdown on virtual currencies and anonymous payments made online and via pre-paid cards in a bid to tackle terrorism financing after the Paris attacks, a draft document seen by Reuters said.
The multi-pronged ISIS attack on Paris may have been sophisticated and shattering — but it wasn't expensive.
Meeting in Turkey just two days after the horrific terrorist attacks in Paris, leaders of the G-20 countries issued a statement condemning recent Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) attacks and reaffirmed their commitment to combat terrorism.
Last month the UK’s Treasury and Home Office published the first national risk assessment of money laundering and terrorist financing in the UK.
President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday set up a commission to combat terrorism financing, the Kremlin said, in another sign of the Russian leader's heightened focus on what he says is a fight against Islamic State militants.
The Paris attacks are reviving the debate about whether terrorists are taking advantage of encryption technologies that make their communications impossible for law enforcement to read.
The United States and United Kingdom recently published detailed money laundering and terrorist financing risk assessments identifying both law enforcement and national security challenges. Read together, both the U.S. and U.K.
The Paris attacks are transforming Europe’s migration crisis into a security debate, spurring calls for a clampdown on free movement across borders, and putting proponents of an open door for refugees on the defensive.
The Paris terror attacks suggest that the U.S. and its allies overestimated recent successes against Islamic State while underestimating the group’s ability to strike far from its Middle East stronghold, according to U.S. lawmakers, analysts and former senior intelligence officials.