The global drug cartels have to be addressed. The illegal trade of drugs is fueling extremist groups and paying for their weapons.
In Afghanistan, it is the poppy and the Haqqani Network. Hezbollah now is funded by their sales of illegal drugs obtained from South America.
Then there is plain old crime, like human trafficking in Libya (click here) for the last five years, where Daesh is still supposed to be operating. And that is another thing, Al Bagdadi is dead. Who are all these little tin gods now heading the terrorist group in Libya and Afghanistan?
When do crimes actually become the real problem in ending conflicts between countries like Palestine and Israel?
If drug cartels were not allowed to exist half of the problem with warring factions would be solved. There must be a concerted effort to end the drug and human commodities that allow for war chests for terrorist groups. If they didn't have an income they wouldn't have weapons.
Syria is different when it comes to human trafficking (click here). This is all due to the fact unstable governments are allowed to exist in a larger proxy war between Russia and China.
By Areeb Ullah
The majority of British women (click here) who fled territory once held by the Islamic State (IS) group and are now stranded in camps across northeast Syria are survivors of human trafficking, a new report has revealed.
Reprieve, a human rights group based in London, estimates that 25 British adults and 34 British children continue to be held indefinitely inside the camps, including a 12-year-old girl.
In a report published on Friday, Reprieve said that two-thirds of British women detained in Syria met the legal definition of trafficking victims, as they were subject to sexual and other forms of exploitation, with the vast majority under the age of 18....
People like Kushner and the Saudi Prince want to throw money around in an attempt to grow an economy. Right. And when do the laws become important to end all the underground goods and trading of human flesh?
By Michael Crowley and Annie Karni
...White House officials (click here) are debating how to recalibrate their approach, hoping to avoid another crisis that would further divert Mr. Biden’s attention from his top foreign policy priorities: China, Russia and restoring the Iran nuclear deal. In a reminder of Mr. Biden’s more expansive agenda, he met at the White House on Friday with South Korea’s president, Moon Jae-in, to discuss matters including Beijing’s growing power and North Korea’s nuclear program.
In the short term, Mr. Biden is taking steps to increase American engagement. Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken will visit the region early next week, and the State Department is dispatching a veteran diplomat, Michael Ratney, to lead the United States embassy in Jerusalem until Mr. Biden settles on his pick for the vacant ambassador post there, according to a person briefed on the plan...
