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A recently blacklisted Afghan charity used mainstream financial institutions to funnel funds to members of the Islamic State group's affiliate in Afghanistan and Pakistan, according to U.S. officials. The Treasury Department designated the Nejaat Social Welfare Organization on Nov. 18, three years after the nonprofit allegedly used "false charitable pretenses" to move unspecified sums of cash from donors in Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Iraq and other countries "via the banking system" to the group's Afghan affiliate, ISIS-Khorasan. After the funds arrived, the charity's representatives in Kabul and Jalalabad, Afghanistan, allegedly transferred them to ISIS-K, whose ranks reportedly consisted of...