Violence and Security

Italian Police Seize IS Drug Stash

November 14, 2017

Italian police seized a massive cache of opioid narcotics in Milan that had arrived from India en route to Islamic State (IS) jihadis in Libya as part of the growing effort by European police to shut down the drug trade that IS uses to increase jihadist combat performance and to finance the growing number of Islamist terror operations in Europe.
Foreign Volunteers in Anti-IS Fight Could Face Prosecution

November 14, 2017

Volunteers who fought with Syrian Kurdish forces in the anti-Islamic State (IS) coalition supported by the US and its European allies now face possible prosecution for supporting terrorists, since the US and UK have branded some Kurdish organizations as terrorists as part of the geopolitical moves to negate the outcome of Iraqi Kurds' referendum for independence.
FBI Investigates IS Hacking of US School Websites

November 13, 2017

The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is investigating an Islamic State (IS) hacker attack on 800 public schools across the US after a Georgia-based host server for the schools sent visitors to their sites to IS YouTube videos that included text banners of "I love Islamic State (ISIS)."
France, Switzerland Launch Counter-terrorism Operation

November 13, 2017

A joint counter-terrorism operation in France and Switzerland resulted in the arrest of 10 individuals identified as suspects in a planned Islamist terror attack on the French city of Nice.
West Needs Policy Response to Returning Jihadis

November 08, 2017

Thomas McCabe writes that the US and its allies need smart, expeditious policy responses to the threat from jihadis returning from fighting with the Islamic State (IS), including the use of procedures to apprehend returnees before they cross borders and possible revocation of citizenship for Western jihadis due to material support to IS terrorism.
Islamist Terror Groups Consolidate in Horn of Africa

November 08, 2017

The US Africa Command (AFRICOM) carried out airstrikes against Islamic State sites in Somalia, signaling that the Mideast Islamist group joins al-Qaeda’s al-Shabaab in the Horn of Africa country where the state’s lack of political legitimacy has opened the way for jihadi groups warring to consolidate sharia governance in the geopolitically significant region.
US, UN Officials Report Integration "Jihadi Drug" Markets

November 08, 2017

The US Drug Enforcement Agency and the UN Office on Drugs and Crime report the growing integration of criminal networks for production and the expansion of markets for recreational use of Captagon, the amphetamine known as the “jihadi drug” because it was favored by Islamic State fighters for enhancing combat effectiveness.
IS Claims New York Attacker Was Caliphate Soldier

November 08, 2017

The Islamic State (IS) has claimed responsibility for this week’s vehicle terror attack that killed eight people in Manhattan, identifying the perpetrator, who asked for the black flag of IS to be hung in his hospital room after treatment from his wound sustained during apprehension by police, as a soldier of the caliphate.
US Extradites IS Supporter from Bosnia

November 08, 2017

The US extradited a Kosovar green card holder from Bosnia to face charges of providing material support to the Islamic State (IS) by recruiting in the IS Border Office in Turkey foreign fighters from the US, Europe, and Australia as jihadis in Iraq and Syria.
Raid on Bin Laden Hideout Show Iran Links

November 08, 2017

The US government has released the trove of al-Qaeda documents and video files, including Osama Bin Laden's personal diary, captured during the raid on the jihadist leader's Pakistan compound, revealing a complex, mutually opportunistic relationship between the Islamist terror group and the Islamic Republic of Iran.