Insight Monitor
Jessica Davis, PhD, Emelia Connolly, Lisa Niemzyk, Belle Riley Thompson, Stephen ReimerGlobal security, terrorism, espionage and illicit financing -- news and analysis you won't find anywhere else!
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The Belleville Synagogue Shooting was an Act of Terrorism
As longtime readers of Insight Monitor know, I spend a fair bit of my time thinking about terrorism in Canada (and elsewhere).
As longtime readers of Insight Monitor know, I spend a fair bit of my time thinking about terrorism in Canada (a...
Global Terrorism Financing Report
August 2026
Welcome back, Insight Monitor subscribers. In this month’s terrorism financing report, we examine how communications and social-media platforms facilitate the movement of funds to terrorist organizations across the Middle East...
Following the Money
Hello, Insight Monitor subscribers!
Below, we recap what we explored in the August issues of Insight Monitor, featuring our latest analyses on terrorist financing and a preview of the upcoming CASIS Annual Symposium. Before we dive in, ma...
Hamas Outspent Bin Laden. That Should Have Been Impossible.
Twenty-five years ago this week, the world learned the true cost of ignoring terrorist financing. The terrorist attacks of September 11th, 2001 cost an estimated $887,000 (in 2023 USD) to conduct and resulted in thousands of deaths that day...
The Iraq Exception: Financing Militias Without Cryptocurrency
Welcome to another edition of Insight Monitor, where we continue our examination of Iran’s hybrid threat finance strategy, use of digital assets to finance terrorist groups, and its proxy network.1 Today’s newsletter looks at how Iran has f...
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Jessica Davis is President of Insight Threat Intelligence and is the author of Women in Modern Terrorism: From Liberations Wars to Global Terrorism and the Islamic State (2017), and Illicit Money: Financing Terrorism in the 21st Century (2021).
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