Insight Monitor
Jessica Davis, PhD, Emelia Connolly, Stephen Reimer, Lisa NiemzykGlobal security, terrorism, espionage and illicit financing -- news and analysis you won't find anywhere else!
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The $50 Million Signal: What Revenue-Sharing Reveals About the al-Qaeda Network's Resilience
Hello, Insight Monitor subscribers! Today, we have a newsletter focused on the long-awaited UN Monitoring Team’s 38th report on ISIL and Al Qaeda. Something very important stood out for me in this report: the revenue-sharing of JNIM’s $50 m...
Global Terrorism Financing Report
July 2026
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Following the Money
Hello, Insight Monitor subscribers!
This month, we explored the changing nature of terrorism and illicit finance—from overlooked domestic threats to hybrid financial networks and the growing role of digital assets in sanctions evasion and...
New Project Announcement: Bridging the Divide: Cryptocurrency, Sanctions Evasion, and the Fragmentation of Global Finance
I’m delighted to share that Michael Nesbitt and I have been awarded a SSHRC Insight Development Grant for our new research project:
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📖 Bridging the Divide: Cryptocurrency, Sanctions Evasion, and the Frag...
New Research: Terrorist Use of Hybrid Threat Finance Networks
Hello, Insight Monitor subscribers, and a warm welcome to all the new faces around here who have joined over the last few weeks. Our community continues to grow thanks to all of you who are sharing this newsletter, which is so important to...
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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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