Violence and Security

Russian Intelligence Arrests Radicals from Banned Uzbek Jihadist Group on Charges of Financing Islamists in Syria

July 28, 2020

Russia's domestic intelligence agency, the Federal Security Service (FSB), announced the detention of more than 20 individuals active underground in the outlawed Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, on charges of providing terrorist financing for jihadists in Syria and of recruiting Islamist radicals across several of Russia's southern regions.
Infamous Brit IS Terrorists in U.S Custody Admit to Crimes Against American Citizens

July 28, 2020

Two of the British citizens dubbed “the Beatles,” who became infamous as IS foreign fighters, are in US military custody and facing prosecution for their admission to crimes including ransom, torture, and beheading of Americans held in their captivity on behalf of caliphate forces in Iraq and Syria.
IS Adapts Digital Strategy With Malign Activities Aimed at Domestic Disruption Inside America

July 27, 2020

The Islamic State (IS) is adapting its digital strategy to augment its conventional Islamist radicalization and recruitment platforms, with new hacking practices and disinformation platforms aiming systematically to weaken America from within by aggravating divisions related to current social justice debates.
Profile of IS Leader Reveals Terrorist Training, Genocide Policies

July 21, 2020

A recent profile of the leader who assumed the helm of the Islamic State (IS) since October 2019 reveals an individual with a history of terrorist training in al-Qaeda and, then, IS, as well as a record of genocidal policies towards religious minorities, and a commitment to rebuilding the IS in its core caliphate territories and beyond.
French Courts Sentence IS Foreign Fighter to 30 Years in Landmark Extradition Case

July 07, 2020

A Paris court sentenced a French national to 30 years in prison on charges associated with his jihadist activities abroad as part of the Islamic State (IS).
Italian Busts Show COVID-19 Hasn’t Slowed IS Narcotics Production for Terrorist Financing

July 07, 2020

The massive drug busts of IS-trafficked methamphetamines and hashish by Italian police over the past two weeks underscores the Islamist extremist group’s ability to maximize narcotics production and market share, in order to sustain revenues for terrorist financing purposes worldwide.
IS Kills More Civilians in Latest Jihadi Attack in Nigeria

July 07, 2020

The Nigerian branch of the IS (ISWAP, Islamic State of West Africa) has killed more civilians in its latest attack in the West African country, part of the expanding scope of jihadi violence by various Islamist extremist groups in the region.
Philippines Police Kill Four in IS Sleeper Cell in Capital City

July 04, 2020

Philippines police killed four IS militants in a raid on a local sleeper cell in the country’s capital city of Manila, indicating that the local IS branch is beginning to expand into urban areas from the Islamists’ concentration in the southern part of the island nation.
Italian Police Bust IS Narcotics Motherload

July 04, 2020

Italian police reported the single largest seizure ever of amphetamines narcotics, with the drug bust of an IS shipment at the port of Salerno exposing the use of narcotics trafficking in Europe as a major financing tool of the Islamist terror group.
State Dept. Warns About a Globalized IS

July 01, 2020

The U.S. State Department’s Coordinator for Counterterrorism, Nathan Sales, is warning that the Islamic State (“IS”) has evolved into a globalized entity able to inspire islamist extremist ideology and violent operations carried out by local affiliates.