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August 4, 2022 | Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, Varsha Koduvayur, Samuel Hodgson

Profit of Hate: How Domestic Extremists Are Embracing Cryptocurrency

Enticed by the relative anonymity of cryptocurrency and the need to circumvent a denial of service, domestic extremists have been able to raise millions.

June 1, 2021 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

Underwriting Hezbollah Inc.

By funding the failed Lebanese state and lifting sanctions on Iran, the United States is partnering with the world’s deadliest crime syndicate

September 19, 2020 | Toby Dershowitz, Dylan Gresik

Bombing in Bulgaria: Turning the Tide on Hezbollah

At 5:23 p.m. on July 18, 2012, a deadly explosion rocked Bulgaria’s Sarafavo airport near the Black Sea town of Burgas, killing five Jewish Israeli tourists and their Muslim Bulgarian bus driver....

May 4, 2020 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Three German left-wing terrorists on Europe’s most wanted list

Red Army Faction cooperated with Palestinian terrorist entities.

February 27, 2020 | Annie Fixler |

The Cyber Threat from Iran after the Death of Soleimani

Excerpt Tensions between the United States and Iran have been escalating since the Trump administration came into office in January 20171 and withdrew from—and in November 2018 began reimposing sanctions...

July 1, 2019 | Thomas Joscelyn |

U.S. military targets al Qaeda operatives in Syria

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November 19, 2018 | Toby Dershowitz, Serena Frechter

Hezbollah on Trial in Europe

Fifteen Hezbollah-linked defendants accused of laundering millions of euros in South American drug money to Europe and Lebanon...

December 12, 2017 | Emanuele Ottolenghi

Fix U.S. Airport Security Before It’s Too Late

The same security flaws that allow drugs into the United States can be exploited by terror groups and may eventually lead to another 9/11-type mass terror attack. It is time to close that gap by...

July 17, 2017 | Benjamin Weinthal

The EU Needs to Get Tougher on Hezbollah

Exactly five years after terrorists in Bulgaria detonated a bomb on a bus filled with Israeli tourists, Sofia’s special terrorism court is scheduled to begin much-delayed hearings Tuesday o...

July 13, 2017 | Thomas Joscelyn

The Terrorist Diaspora: After the Fall of the Caliphate

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August 24, 2016 | Yaya J. Fanusie |

The New Frontier in Terror Fundraising: Bitcoin

When I worked as a counterterrorism analyst for the CIA, I always looked out for signs of terrorist groups adapting their meth...

June 25, 2014 | Jonathan Schanzer |

An Unhelpful Ally

The Middle East is aflame. The rapid march of the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham, or ISIS, from Syria into Iraq has rattled Washington and Brussels. The Palestinian-Israeli conflict is also he...

April 29, 2013 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Connecting the Dots: Hezbollah, Iran’s Web of Plots

As the European Union grapples with a ban of the Lebanese Shi’ite organization Hezbollah within its territory, reports emerged last week of foiled Iranian and Hezbollah terror and criminal...

April 22, 2008 | Dr. J. Peter Pham World Defense Review

Al-Qaeda Sahara Network Spurs U.S. to Train Chad, Mali Forces

Analyzing the veritable "surge" last summer in attacks launched by al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), I suggested in this column space that both the rhetoric of the group and the threat it a...