Publication

This issue of the Sentinel features articles on 1) advantages and limitations of the use of digital currencies by illicit actors, specifically jihadists; 2) Boko Haram’s recruitment, financing, and arms trafficking in the Lake Chad Region; 3) Boko Haram’s cross-border activities in Niger, Chad, and Cameroon, and its presence in the Central African Republic; 4) the motivations of Syrian Islamist fighters; 5) how Southeast Asians, mainly from Malaysia and Indonesia, become involved with Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant and other terrorist groups.