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The Department of State, along with the United States Department of the Treasury, also has the authority to designate individuals and entities as subject to counter-terrorism sanctions according to Executive Order 13224. The Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) maintains a separate list of such individuals and entities. [1] [2]
Patterns of Global Terrorism was a report published each year on or before April 30 by the United States Department of State. It has since been renamed Country Reports on Terrorism. [1] The Secretary of State is required by Congress to produce detailed assessments about each foreign country in which acts of international terrorism occurred;
The report, released this week by Gladstone AI, flatly states that the most advanced AI systems could, in a worst case, “pose an extinction-level threat to the human species.” A US State ...
A fragile state has several attributes. Common indicators include a state whose central government is so weak or ineffective that it has little practical control over much of its territory; non-provision of public services; widespread corruption and criminality; refugees and involuntary movement of populations; and sharp economic decline. [1]
The Islamic State group still commands between 5,000 and 7,000 members across its former stronghold in Syria and Iraq and its fighters pose the most serious terrorist threat in Afghanistan today ...
The Homeland Security Advisory System was created in response to the 9/11 attacks by the George W. Bush administration.After its announcement, Peter T. King, a Republican Representative from New York, said that the color-based assessments were useful at the time of their creation but that a more specific system was now needed. [4]
The system was created by Homeland Security Presidential Directive 3 on March 11, 2002, in response to the September 11 attacks.It was meant to provide a "comprehensive and effective means to disseminate information regarding the risk of terrorist acts to federal, state, and local authorities and to the American people."
Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., briefly placed a blanket hold on civilian nominees for the State Department and the Pentagon in 2021 in protest of the Biden administration’s handling of the military ...