The Somali militant group Al-Shabaab has developed an extensive financial infrastructure. Security actors seeking to disrupt and defeat the group must tackle the financial dimension of its activities.

The number of vehicles being stolen across the Republic is beginning to increase again after the crime plummeted for years in line with the country’s economic fortunes.

New trade in lucrative ape skulls and bones stokes fears of annihilation of wild gorilla and chimpanzee populations

German government websites, including Chancellor Angela Merkel’s page, were hacked on Wednesday in an attack claimed by a group demanding Berlin end support for the Ukrainian government, shortly before their leaders were to meet.

A Merseyside drug courier was caught with £1m worth of heroin on the M62 in a chain of events that brought down an international drugs empire

Andreas Schedler, Mexican National Survey on Organized Violence / Encuesta Nacional de Violencia Organizada (envo), Public opinion survey (N = 2.400) and elite opinion survey (N = 629), 2014, cide Data Archive for Applied Research in the Social Sciences (biiacs) (http://biiacs.cide.edu/)

Organized violence and protection and what to do about them: an open debate

Silk Road 2.0 and 400 other sites believed to be selling illegal items including drugs and weapons have been shut down.  

The theft of endangered and rare flowers has led botanical gardens to go to extreme measures to protect their plants, locking them down with cables and installing CCTV. But is this enough to preserve such species?

Booming global trade in 50-million-year-old amber stones is lucrative, controversial, and extremely dangerous.