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Terrorist Financing

Dark Money: How Militants Exploit Hawala to Fund Terror

Dark Money: How Militants Exploit Hawala to Fund Terror

Bottom Line: For terrorists, moving money covertly through hawala networks to circumvent institutionalized banking systems remains one of their [...] More

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With Coffers Draining, ISIS May Seek Donations & Step Up Crime

Once billed the richest terrorist group in history, ISIS’ revenue streams are drying up, which may force it to rely more heavily on criminal [...] More

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ISIS Threat Persists Even As Capital Slips from its Grasp

The end is near for the battle for Raqqa, the de facto capital of ISIS’s self-declared caliphate, but the terrorist group still has ways of raising [...] More

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Why Virtual Currencies are a Potential Strategic Threat

In January, the Indonesian financial transactions agency claimed Bitcoin had been used by Islamic militants to fund terrorist activity there; last [...] More

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Money-Laundering Laws Should Cover Virtual Currency Exchange Businesses

Continuing terror attacks around the world indicate law enforcement and intelligence agencies face difficulty in trying to identify and disrupt the [...] More

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Terror Finance in the Age of Bitcoin

Terror Finance in the Age of Bitcoin

Terrorists’ tactics evolve with the times. Just as we have seen an adaption of terrorist methods for sowing fear and distrust, so, too, we have seen [...] More

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Will A New Generation of Terrorists Turn to Bitcoin?

Discussion of malicious cyber activity has mainly focused on criminal activity and countries’ intelligence efforts. Entities other than national [...] More

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U.S. Efforts to Combat Illicit Financial Networks

The Cipher Brief sat down with Celina Realuyo, Professor of Practice in the William J. Perry Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies at National [...] More

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Hawala Networks: The Paperless Trail of Terrorist Transactions

Hawala Networks: The Paperless Trail of Terrorist Transactions

An integral component of U.S. counterterrorism strategy has centered on disrupting terrorist finances. Terrorist groups have exploited resources and [...] More

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Minimizing Abuse of Hawalas

Hawala networks and terror finance are in the news again. These networks have been used by ISIS in war-torn Syria and Iraq, and were reportedly used [...] More

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Flexing Some Muscle

Having carried out several attacks in the last couple of months, al Shabaab remains a “very high” threat to security in Somalia and surrounding [...] More

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Hezbollah's Many Faces

Hezbollah's Many Faces

Designated by the United States as a terrorist group in 1997, Hezbollah is a Shia extremist organization and political party based in Lebanon that [...] More

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A Proxy for Iran

The Cipher Brief sat down with Matt Levitt, former Deputy Assistant Secretary for Intelligence and Analysis at the Treasury Department, to discuss [...] More

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