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US Confirms New Yorker Arrested for Terror Support
August 31, 2017
US officials have confirmed the arrest in "a Middle Eastern country bordering Syria" of a 22-year-old man from New York planning to join the Islamic State (IS) on charges of providing material support for terrorism, following a months-long investigation revealing the suspect's extensive electronic communications with IS networks and plans to participate in jihadi activities.
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Financial Disruption Remains Key to Degrading Jihadi Networks
August 31, 2017
US academic programs and think tanks highlight the security importance of disrupting sophisticated global finance and banking networks that continue to be deployed by radical groups that are perpetrating jihadi violence and disseminating extremist Islamist ideology.
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Experts: Use Community-Focused Tools to Counter Violent Extremism
August 31, 2017
Some US security experts argue that efforts to counter violent extremism of any variety should build on community-driven models of success in combating the spread of Islamist ideas and violence in North America and Europe, wherein public-private, multi-stakeholder coalitions have weakened the ideological and economic bases for radicalization and recruitment.
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US Blacklists IS Finance Official
August 31, 2017
The US Treasury Department continues its efforts to dismantle Islamic State (IS) financial networks, most recently by cooperating with the government of Iraq in sanctioning a Turkey-based IS financier as a "specially designated global terrorist," a classification that freezes any of his assets within the US and Iraq.
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Report Links Islamism, Blasphemy Laws, and Rights Violations
August 31, 2017
A newly released report on blasphemy laws by a US government expert commission on international religious freedom reveals the comparatively high number of cases in which Islamist regimes use blasphemy laws to limit fundamental rights, with criminalization under penalty of imprisonment or death in worst-offender countries.
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