The US now counts drug runners as terrorists, expanding the number of groups is it targeting.
- Reader (Associate Professor) in International Relations, University of Essex
The Trump administration deems the Venezuela-based Cartel de los Soles a terrorist organisation, but there are doubts over whether it actually exists.
The UK’s list of proscribed groups currently contains 81 organisations, from Islamists like al-Qaida to neo-Nazis such as The Base.
Our research suggests companies look to foreign aid as a signal about whether or not to invest in post-war countries.
Alleged Sinaloa cartel leader duped into flying to the US, where arrest awaited him.
Israel is fighting a broad coalition of armed Palestinian militias in Gaza − and then there’s Hezbollah, just across the border in Lebanon.
Deadly attacks on schoolchildren by terrorists groups have been growing around the world from 2009.
The UK’s proscription of Wagner would be an important global signal, but is not without risks.
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