Jihadist groups’ ability to build and maintain a large online community through social media is well known, as well as their capacity, growing out of a state of necessity or creativity, to be early adopters of new technologies. Continue reading
At the end of January, several local Indian news organizations reported that al-Qassam brigades (AQB), the military wing of Hamas, could be behind a cryptocurrency mobile wallet[i] hack in India.[ii] Continue reading
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Nel 2008 il Capo di Stato Maggiore della Difesa del Regno Unito, Marshal Sir Jock Stirrup, dichiarò ai media britannici di essere già stati più volte battuti sul tempo nelle varie operazioni di informazione dai gruppi di talebani,. Continue reading
La drammatica uscita di scena statunitense dall’Afghanistan rischia di creare ripercussioni che vanno ben oltre i confini del martoriato Paese dell’Asia Centrale, coinvolgendo anche l’Europa. Continue reading
Una forza di reazione rapida composta da tre battaglioni statunitensi (due del Corpo dei Marine e uno dell’Esercito), e due contingenti canadesi (150/300 soldati) ed inglesi (600/800 unità) delle forze speciali, sarà schierata presso l’aeroporto internazionale di Hamid Karzai a protezione dell’evacuazione del personale diplomatico e civile statunitense presente ancora a Kabul. Continue reading
Suicide bombings have been a methodology that defined a whole new era, that of “new terrorism”. Although used also by organizations like PKK and LTTE, they became a standard in terrorism literature regarding the toolkit of Islamist terror organizations. Continue reading
On August 13, the US Department of Justice announced that the US government, through a multiagency effort, seized about $2 million in Bitcoin from accounts connected to Al Qaeda, Daesh, and the al-Qassam Brigades (i.e. Hamas’s paramilitary arm) and disrupted their terrorism financing cryptocurrency networks. Continue reading
The built heritage of European cities is exposed to various hazards of different nature – natural events such as floods or earthquakes but also man-made threats. The escalation of terrorist attacks conducted in urban environments against soft targets necessitates the development of guidelines for the antiterrorism design of buildings and public spaces. Continue reading
Giovanni Giacalone di Itstime è entrato a far parte dello Europe Desk (Italy) del think-tank britannico di contro-terrorismo Islamic Theology of Counter-Terrorism-ITCT quale analista per l’estremismo islamista e il jihadismo in Italia Continue reading
Matteo Vergani, collaboratore di ITSTIME in Australia, ci presenta la nuova iniziativa per Contrastare l’odio e l’estremismo: il sito www.tacklinghate.org , finanziato dal Governo del Victoria, in collaborazione con il think tank CRIS (Centre for Resilient and Inclusive Societies). Continue reading
On May 7, for the third consecutive year, a renewed bitcoin crowdfunding campaign surfaced on al-Raya foundation’s Telegram channel, the media outlet of the Salafi Army of the Nation in Jerusalem, a pro-al Qaeda jihadist organization operating in the Gaza Strip.[i] Continue reading