How Afghanistan’s President Helped His Brother and a U.S. Contractor Secure a Lucrative Mineral Processing Permit
With the figurative stroke of a pen, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani put his sibling into the chromite business with a...
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Special Operations
The FinCEN Files
US Drug Agents Say Diplomacy Trumped Money Laundering Concerns
Action against Dubai’s Kaloti Jewellery Group could have angered a US ally in the Middle East.
GROUP AMERICA: A US-Serbian Drug Gang With Friends In The Shadows
How Group America’s Money Feeds the Balkan Economy
What do drug traffickers do with the mountains of cash they make supplying Europe’s cocaine habit?
Private U.S. Contractors Part of the ‘Kill Chain’ in East Africa Anti-Terrorist Operations
A Cold War military procurement program, preferred private contractors, and escalating drone strikes in Somalia.
Making a Killing
Pentagon Hired Questionable Contractors for Syria Arms Purchases
The Pentagon’s battle against the Islamic State relies on an Eastern European arms supply line operated, in part, by firms...
Making a Killing
Kurdish Militia in Syria Found With US-Bought Mortar Shells
President Obama promised not to arm Kurdish units fighting in the Syrian civil war. But new evidence shows that Serbian...
Making a Killing
Revealed: The Pentagon Is Spending Up To $2.2 Billion on Soviet-Style Arms for Syrian Rebels
The Pentagon is on the hunt for Soviet-style arms across Eastern Europe -- and it’s using questionable contractors and...
Making a Killing
The Black Sea Route to Syria
Romania and Bulgaria’s ports served as key transport hubs in the Pentagon’s supply-line which fueled millions of bullets and...
Making a Killing
German Concerns Spark Pentagon Reroute of Syria-Bound Arms
The Pentagon has rerouted its weapons supply-line to Syria after officials in Berlin became concerned at the surge in arms...
Making a Killing
Making a Killing: The €1.2 Billion Arms Pipeline to Middle East
An unprecedented flow of weapons from Central and Eastern Europe is flooding the battlefields of the Middle East.
What made a Serbian Judge Quit?
Vladimir Vucinic, a former judge of Serbia's Special Court for tackling organized crime, has decided to quit. He haspresided...
Bulgarian Capital Rocked by Explosions as Suspected Mobster Attacked
Explosions and loud gunfire rocked a neighborhood in the Bulgarian capital Sofia on Thursday morning, close to the city’s...
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