Islamic State is still receiving significant financial support from Arab sympathisers outside Iraq and Syria, enabling it to expand its war effort, says a senior Kurdish official.

Old and new forms of organised and serious crime between the local and the global

The trade in antiquities is one of Islamic State’s main sources of funding, along with oil and kidnapping. For this reason the UN Security Council last week banned all trade in artefacts from Syria, accusing IS militants of looting cultural heritage to strengthen its ability “to organise and carry out terrorist attacks”.  

Global regulations on money laundering are expensive to enforce and unfair to poor countries. They don’t work very well, either

Two-week summer school in Lisbon involving scientific experts from the EMCDDA and invited keynote speakers 29.6.–10.7.2015

The Lisbon Addictions conference — a major new event in the addictions calendar Lisbon, 23–25 September 2015