Europe
What Europe’s Hezbollah Cases Actually Decided
On a cold late-November afternoon in 2018, inside the storied corridors of the Palais de…
Salerno, 2020: Eighty-Four Million Pills and the Wrong Name
When Italian customs officers pried open three commercial cargo containers inside the sun-baked port of…
The Cocaine Gates—and the Money That Left by Another Door
When the refrigerated container arrived at the port of Rotterdam in the dead heat of…
The Bank, the Car Lots and the Money That Came Back
A civil forfeiture action in Manhattan traced at least $329 million in transfers from Lebanese exchange houses to American used-car…
Hezbollah’s Two European Footprints: Ice Packs and Cash
On a scorching May afternoon in 2015, a dual Lebanese-Canadian citizen named Hussein Bassam Abdallah walked through the industrial outskirts…
The Name That Survived the Blast
Amid the smoking debris scattered across the parking lot of Sarafovo Airport in Burgas, Bulgaria, on the afternoon of July…
Before the Blast, a Bill
The charred laminate of a fake Michigan driver’s license, bearing the fabricated name Jacque Felipe Martin, was among the first…