Terrorism financing

February 18, 2021 | Saeed Ghasseminejad, Toby Dershowitz

Iran, Terrorism Finance, and Money Laundering: A Status Update Before FATF Meets Next Week

When the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) convenes its plenary next week, while not formally on the agenda, buzz on the sidelines will concern Tehran’s constant push to be removed from the FATF blacklist....

January 30, 2018 | Varsha Koduvayur

With Strategic Dialogue, the U.S. Can Hold Qatar Accountable on Terror Finance

Today, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Secretary of Defense James Mattis, along with their Qatari counterparts, will co-chair the inaugural...

January 10, 2018 | Yaya J. Fanusie, Tom Robinson

Bitcoin Laundering

An Analysis of Illicit Flows into Digital Currency Services

September 20, 2017 | Yaya J. Fanusie |

Regulators Struggling to Handle Illicit Finance Risks of Fintech Innovation

Earlier this month, China’s financial aut...

August 3, 2017 | David Weinberg

Qatar is worst in the region on counterterrorism, but other Gulf monarchies are not off the hook

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton reportedly ...

July 18, 2017 |

Managing Terrorism Financing Risk in Remittances and Money Transfers

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January 18, 2017 | |

Qatar and Terror Finance

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July 25, 2016 | Saeed Ghasseminejad |

Will Iran wordsmith its way off our terrorism list? It certainly is trying

Iran is on a diplomatic offensive to persuade global illicit finance regulators to accept that Hezbollah is not a terrorist group. It may be just a matter of time before the international body in...

June 8, 2016 | Michael Braun

The Enemy in our Backyard: Examining Terror Funding Streams from South America

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June 7, 2016 | Emanuele Ottolenghi

The Enemy in our Backyard: Examining Terror Funding Streams from South America

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April 21, 2016 | Yaya J. Fanusie |

IS Terror Group Raises Millions from Plundered Relics

The Islamic State (IS) may have raised as much as $100 million by digging up and selling priceless antiquities from territory it controls, according to experts consulted by a U.S. congr...

April 21, 2016 | Yaya J. Fanusie |

Islamic State Committing ‘Cultural Genocide’ by Selling Priceless Antiques to Westerners

Expert witnesses, while testifying before a House panel about the unprecedented level of looting and destruction of priceless antiques by jihadist groups across the Middle East, identified collec...

April 19, 2016 | Yaya J. Fanusie

Preventing Cultural Genocide: Countering the Plunder and Sale of Priceless Cultural Antiquities

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February 3, 2016 |

Anti-Money Laundering and Terror Finance Expert Joins FDD’s Center on Sanctions and Illicit Finance

Washington, DC -- John Cassara, a 26-year federal intelligence and law enforcement veteran and expert o...

July 21, 2015 | Mark Dubowitz

The Iran Nuclear Deal and its Impact on Terrorism Financing

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April 22, 2015 | Jonathan Schanzer, Juan C. Zarate

FDD’s Schanzer and Zarate Testify about Terror Finance Threats

WASHINGTON, DC – As Congress and the administration explore ways to stem the threat of terrorists destabilizing important regions and attacking U.S. interests and those of its allies, Dr. J...

April 21, 2015 | Jonathan Schanzer

A Survey of Global Terrorism and Terrorist Financing

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January 20, 2015 | David Weinberg The Long War Journal

Analysis: Former al Qaeda Operative Freed, Sent Home to Qatar

Editor's Note: For more on Qatar's track record in fighting terrorism, see Dr. Weinberg's report for the Foundation for Defense of Democracies&#...

December 10, 2014 |

New FDD Report Reveals Depth of Qatar’s Terror Financing

WASHINGTON - The Foundation for Defense of Democracies and its Center on Sanctions and Illicit Finance today released Part One of a three-part series revealing Qatar’s shocking record of ne...

October 21, 2014 | FDD Policy Brief

UK Blacklists Qatari for Terror Finance, Pledges Closer U.S. Coordination

Ten months after the U.S. Treasury sanctioned suspected terrorist financier Abdulrahman bin Omeir al-Nuaymi, th...