A child born on the morning of September 11, 2001 turns twenty-five today. Twenty-five years on, much of American public life still cannot describe the ideology that killed her countrymen.

Washington, DC

The International Freedom Coalition exists because the people living under that ideology got tired of waiting while America forgot what really happened. The Coalition brings together communities for whom jihadism is a present condition, lived with daily: Afghans resisting the Taliban, Assyrian Christians of Iraq, Iranians, Alawites, Druze and Kurds in Syria, Lebanese, Israelis, Nigerians and Biafrans, South Sudanese, and American religious and civic leaders who have refused to let the subject close. The Afghanistan United Front became the Coalition’s first formal partner in August 2026.

“There were two forgettings,” said Dr. Charles Jacobs, President of the International Freedom Coalition. “One was ordinary, the fading time works on every memory. The other was deliberate: a reinterpretation that detached the attack from the movement that produced it and reattached it to the sins of its victims. A generation has now been educated into that second account, and it has left them without the words for what our members live with.”

The Coalition draws no partisan line here. Most American liberals mourned that day and mourn it still, and some of the bravest critics of jihadist ideology are liberals, including Muslim liberals who fight it at personal risk and with little institutional protection. The failure the Coalition describes is institutional, and it crosses party lines.

“We gather as a coalition because of what happened on that day, and because of what has happened since in Kabul, Nineveh, Maiduguri, Damascus, Beirut, and southern Israel,” said Dr. Walid Phares, Vice President of the International Freedom Coalition. “Our members are separated by language, faith, and continent. They arrived at the same conclusion from different directions, having met the same ideology in different uniforms.”

The Coalition’s work is documentation and advocacy: regional desks, country dossiers, and case filing before the United Nations, the United States Congress, and European institutions. The purpose is a public record that outlasts a news cycle, and a vocabulary honest enough to describe what is in it.

Twenty-five years is long enough for a child to become an adult. She is owed an adult account of why that morning happened.

About the International Freedom Coalition

The International Freedom Coalition documents and advocates for communities affected by jihadist violence worldwide. Working through a regional desk model, the Coalition produces country dossiers, builds coalitions among affected communities, and files cases with the United Nations, the United States Congress, and European institutions. The IFC was co-founded by Dr. Charles Jacobs and Dr. Walid Phares, launched in Congress in July 2026, and counts Ayaan Hirsi Ali among its endorsers. The IFC is a project of Americans for Peace and Tolerance, a 501(c)(3) organization based in Watertown, Massachusetts.

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Hong Kong

Sumex, the Hong Kong – based non-custodial crypto SuperApp that brings CeFi and DeFi portfolio tracking and management, has announced a new partnership and integration with Quickex as part of its ongoing expansion of swap infrastructure and liquidity routes. The integration introduces Quickex’s fast, non-custodial swap engine and aggregated liquidity into the Sumex ecosystem, enabling users to access competitive rates across a broad range of assets without needing to juggle multiple exchange interfaces.

To celebrate the launch, Sumex and Quickex are rolling out a new Swap Campaign, featuring a different reward model centered on daily competition and consistent user participation.

Expanding Access to Deep Aggregated Liquidity

Quickex is a non-custodial crypto exchange service that connects users to multiple liquidity sources, delivering competitive exchange rates across a wide range of assets and networks. Its cross-chain infrastructure supports swaps on more than 50 networks, while its routing system aggregates liquidity from multiple providers to enhance pricing and execution conditions. Quickex also enables users to swap directly from their wallets without relinquishing custody of their assets.

For traders, the addition of another established liquidity source gives Sumex more routes to evaluate when processing a swap. Instead of relying on a single provider, Sumex can continue comparing available routes and execution conditions across its expanding network of swap partners.

The result is a deeper infrastructure layer operating behind the scenes, while users continue to interact with the same unified Sumex Swap experience.

Strengthening the Sumex Swap Aggregator

One of Sumex’s use cases is to aggregate liquidity and routing providers so users don’t have to manually compare different protocols and exchange interfaces for every transaction. The addition of Quickex expands that network with another non-custodial source of liquidity and swap execution. Quickex also supports a wide range of cryptocurrency pairs and offers both fixed and floating exchange rates, giving users more options depending on the route and prevailing market conditions.

As with Sumex’s broader swap infrastructure, users stay in full control of their assets throughout the process. The integration introduces another route behind the scenes without requiring an additional account, dashboard, or platform to manage. This is central to Sumex’s approach to aggregation: bring more liquidity, more routes, and more execution options into one place while keeping the user experience simple.

One Day. One Epoch. New Rewards Every Day.

To celebrate the integration, Sumex and Quickex have launched a new Swap Campaign with a reward structure built around daily competition.

Instead of running one long competition, the campaign divides activity into daily epochs. Each day represents a fresh opportunity to compete, with up to $152 in rewards available per epoch and rewards distributed daily. This gives users a new chance to participate every 24 hours rather than requiring them to compete against activity accumulated throughout an entire campaign period.

Eligible swaps routed through Quickex on Sumex count toward the campaign, turning regular swap activity into an opportunity to earn additional rewards while exploring the newly integrated liquidity routes.

The campaign is now live through the Sumex Rewards Hub.

More Routes, More Competition, One Swap Experience

The Quickex integration adds another piece to Sumex’s growing swap infrastructure as the platform continues bringing together liquidity, routing providers, and DeFi services under one interface. For users, the objective remains straightforward: access more assets and more competitive routes without having to move between different platforms to find them.

The Quickex campaign adds another reason to explore those newly available routes, with a fresh competitive opportunity resetting every day.

The Sumex x Quickex Swap Campaign is now live on Sumex.

About Sumex

Sumex is a next-generation, non-custodial crypto SuperApp that unifies portfolio management, trading, investing, and rewards across CeFi and DeFi.

Built around its proprietary Connection Manager, Sumex allows users to safely connect centralized and decentralized exchange accounts, Web3 wallets, and social identities into a single, unified crypto experience.

Through one interface, users can track and manage their entire crypto portfolio, whether trading spot or futures on CEXs or DEXs, executing cross-chain and private swaps, discovering investment opportunities, or participating in activity-based rewards tied to meaningful ecosystem engagement.

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PUTEAUX, FRANCE

The portfolio includes mandates and opportunities across real estate, hospitality, healthcare and senior living, as well as corporate transactions and special situations

CGPH Banque d’affaires is currently working on a portfolio of mandates and opportunities with an aggregate value of approximately €2.5 billion, reinforcing its origination, advisory and financial structuring activities across European private markets.

The pipeline includes transactions at different stages of analysis, structuring and execution, with a significant presence across real estate, hospitality, healthcare and senior living. It also includes corporate opportunities, growth transactions, refinancings and special situations.

The aggregate value refers to transactions currently being worked on or available through CGPH’s network and does not represent assets directly owned or managed by the company.

CGPH works alongside entrepreneurs, companies, investors and real estate operators to define financial structures tailored to the characteristics of each transaction. Its work begins with the analysis of the opportunity and, depending on the mandate, continues through structuring, preparation of the transaction dossier and identification of the most appropriate financing counterparties.

The portfolio includes private debt and private credit transactions, financings secured by real estate assets, acquisitions, developments, refinancings and real estate value-enhancement initiatives. The opportunities vary in size, geography, structure and risk profile and are assessed individually before being presented to funds, family offices, private lenders and institutional investors.

A cross-sector approach to private markets

A significant portion of the current pipeline relates to sectors in which the real estate component must be assessed alongside the quality of the operator, the economic viability of the underlying business and the financial structure of the transaction.

This is particularly the case in hospitality, healthcare and senior living, where acquisitions, developments, refinancings and operational growth often require solutions specifically tailored to the needs of both the asset and the operating business.

In these transactions, CGPH acts as advisor and process coordinator, aligning the client’s requirements with the investment and financing criteria of counterparties within its international network.

“The scale of the pipeline is an important achievement, but the most significant aspect is the quality and diversification of the opportunities we are working on,” said Kolyo Boichev, CEO of CGPH Banque d’affaires. “Our role is not simply to connect capital with opportunities. We begin by understanding the transaction, its underlying business rationale and the needs of the parties in order to identify a credible and executable financial structure.”

Origination and execution capabilities

The growth of the pipeline reflects the continued expansion of CGPH’s commercial and international network, together with the company’s ability to work on cross-border transactions and structures involving different categories of investors and lenders.

CGPH will continue to expand its network of partners, capital providers and specialised professionals, while maintaining a selective approach to evaluating opportunities. The priority will remain on transactions where the company can make a tangible contribution to structuring, capital sourcing and the coordination of execution.

About CGPH Banque d’affaires

CGPH advises companies, entrepreneurs and investors on private debt, real estate, capital raising, mergers and acquisitions, and strategic transactions. The company operates through an international network of funds, lenders, family offices, institutional investors and specialised professionals.

Website: www.cgphbanquedaffaires.com

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