How Much Does A Terrorist Attack Cost? A Lot Less Than You'd Think
The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria is flush with cash, and holds as much as $2 billion. Counterterrorism officials say the group knows how to use that money to its advantage. It's showing a kind of...
View ArticleISIS Brings Business Acumen To Violent Jihad
The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria is proving to be both militant and disciplined, borrowing organizational tools from the corporate world to professionalize its operations.For the past two years, for...
View ArticleBehind ISIS Battle In Iraq, A Clash Between Two Arch-Terrorists
While eyes have been focused on Sunni extremists and their lightning campaign across Iraq, there is a much more fundamental war raging behind the scenes.It is a clash between two arch-terrorists: the...
View ArticleInsurgents Draw Westerners To Battle In Iraq And Syria
Transcript AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Audie Cornish.MELISSA BLOCK, HOST: And I'm Melissa Block. Over years of conflict in Syria, it's estimated that...
View ArticleWestern Fighters Answer Mideast Extremists' Clarion Call
This week a young man in Texas became the first American to plead guilty to terrorism charges related to the recent fighting in Iraq.Michael Wolfe, 23, was arrested just before he boarded a plane.
View ArticleFor Militants, Founding Of Caliphate Is Win In Rhetoric, Not Reality
Transcript ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Robert Siegel.MELISSA BLOCK, HOST: And I'm Melissa Block. The head of a terrorist group controlling large parts of...
View ArticleAgainst 'Islamic State' Militants, Treasury May Need To Try New Tools
In the fight against terrorist organizations, one weapon has been effective in the past: cutting off their funding.Terrorist groups tend to get their money from outside donors or charities. But the...
View ArticleObama: U.S. Confident That Missile Came From Rebel-Held Region
The U.S. says that evidence suggests the missile that brought down Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was fired from separatist-held territory in eastern Ukraine. NPR's Dina Temple-Raston reports what is...
View ArticleBig Data Firm Says It Can Link Snowden Data To Changed Terrorist Behavior
For nearly a year, U.S. government officials have said revelations from former NSA contract worker Edward Snowden harmed national security and allowed terrorists to develop their own countermeasures.
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Militants Behead American Journalist, Leveling New Threats At U.S.
Copyright 2014 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.Transcript ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: Today, American foreign policy intersected with personal tragedy. The parents of James Foley spoke about their...
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Failed Foley Rescue Reveals Challenges Faced By U.S. Intelligence
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View ArticleU.S. Officials Try To Gauge Threat From American Fighters In Syria
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View ArticleBrooklyn Man Fights In Syria. Is He A Threat To The U.S.?
Mocha Hookah is a little Middle Eastern restaurant and cafe on Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn where you can pick up a shawarma gyro sandwich and a falafel platter and still get change back from your $20...
View ArticleFor Islamic State, Hitting The U.S. May Not Be A Top Priority
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel recently talked about the militants associated with the Islamic State, the group also known as ISIL or ISIS. He made them sound 10 feet tall."ISIL is as sophisticated and...
View ArticleAl-Qaida's Khorasan Group Led By Hard-Core Fighters
While the al-Qaida offshoot known as the Khorasan Group only burst into the public consciousness in the past week, the group has been on the radar of counterterrorism officials for a while, and...
View ArticleProminent Muslim Sheik Issues Fatwa Against ISIS Violence
In a speech before the U.N. General Assembly laying out a blueprint for the global battle against the group that calls itself the Islamic State, President Obama called on the world to take a stand...
View ArticleAl-Qaida Reasserts Itself With Khorasan Group
One of the first targets of U.S. airstrikes in Syria was an al-Qaida unit that American officials call the Khorasan Group. Because few outside the intelligence community had ever heard of it, some...
View ArticleFrench Prisons Prove To Be Effective Incubators For Islamic Extremism
Among the sweeping changes France is proposing in the aftermath of this month's terrorist attacks in Paris are new measures to fight Islamic radicalization in its prisons. It is an enormous problem...
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Paris Attacks Refocus Attention On Homegrown Terrorist Threats
Copyright 2015 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.Transcript ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: All across Europe, there's new attention to homegrown terrorism. Thousands of Europeans have traveled to Syria...
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Woman Held By Jordan Has Close Ties To Islamic State
Copyright 2015 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.Transcript ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: A deadline has passed today and still no word on the fate of two hostages held by the group that calls itself...
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