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Author archive for Adam Rousselle

  • Apr072026

    Propaganda as Financial Infrastructure: How Islamic State and al-Qaeda Media Ecosystems Enable Terrorist Finance

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    Propaganda ecosystems function as parallel trust infrastructures, enabling extremist organisations to coordinate financial activity outside formal financial systems. While extremist…

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  • Oct242025

    Closing the Enforcement Gap: AI, Illicit Liquidity, and the Next Phase of Counter-Terrorist Finance

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    This Insight is published to coincide with Global Media and Information Literacy Week to highlight positive interventionist technology tools in…

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  • Jul212025

    Hezbollah’s Latin American Networks: Stablecoins, Smuggling, and Sanctions Evasion

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    In early 2024, the U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Asset Control (OFAC) sanctioned a Syria-based hawala operator, Tawfiq Muhammad Said…

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  • May142025

    Cash Flow: Breaking Down the Houthis’ Multibillion-Dollar Financial Networks

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    Introduction Yemen-based Ansar Allah, widely known as the Houthis, continues to have a profound impact on global security. The group’s…

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  • Apr292025

    Mali’s Environmental Crisis: The Link Between Climate Change and JNIM’s Rapid Expansion

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    Introduction Mali has been in a climate crisis for over half a century, experiencing at least 40 climate-related shocks between 1970…

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  • Feb192025

    Combating Islamic State Finance: Central Asia and Around the World

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    According to the United Nations, the Islamic State’s most successful regional financial offices include al-Karrar, al-Furqan, and al-Siddiq. This series…

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  • Feb182025

    Combating Islamic State Finance: West Africa and the Sahel 

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    According to the United Nations, the Islamic State’s most successful regional financial offices include al-Karrar, al-Furqan, and al-Siddiq. This series…

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  • Feb172025

    Combating Islamic State Finance: Somalia and the Pan-African Nexus

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    According to the United Nations, the Islamic State’s most successful regional financial offices include al-Karrar, al-Furqan, and al-Siddiq. This series…

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  • Dec132024

    The Targeting of Ethnic Tajiks by Online Extremists: A Global Problem

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    Introduction Extremist groups increasingly target ethnic Tajiks for recruitment through sophisticated online propaganda campaigns, resulting in some of the world’s…

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  • Nov252024

    From Trees to Terror: JNIM’s Use of Online Rosewood Sales to Fuel Expansion

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    Introduction On 17 September, al-Qaeda-affiliated Malian terror group Jama’at Nasr al-Islam wal Muslimin (JNIM) carried out a series of attacks…

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