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Mali: The Things That Really Matter
Strategy Page· 4 days agoMarch 20, 2019: It has been a rough six months for the 13,700 peacekeepers in Mali, with 18 dead and 77 wounded in that period. Islamic terrorist attacks are on the rise; from 183 in 2016 to ...
Mali: Surprising Saudi Support Surfaces
Strategy Page· 1 day agoDecember 14, 2017: Officials from the G5 Sahel (the semi-desert area between the Sahara and the jungle) Joint Force countries (Mali, Mauritania, Burkina Faso, Niger and Chad) met in France with ...
Counter-Terrorism: What To Buy In Yemen
Strategy Page· 5 days agoAugust 19, 2018: The Western mass media recently ran stories about how al Qaeda members in Yemen often took bribes to abandon territory and sometimes < ...
Mali: Blood And Money
Strategy Page· 2 days agoAugust 9, 2017: The 13,000 peacekeepers in Mali are mainly African and mainly stationed in the north and, increasingly central Mali where there is more Islamic terror group activity, not all ...
Why Is the Head of the Terrorist Haqqani Network Traveling with Impunity?
The Bulwark· 1 day agoIn 2008, I sparred with his fighters in Kapisa in northeastern Afghanistan. In 2014, the Afghan general I advised lost hundreds of sources who had tried to infiltrate the Haqqani network. “What ...
U.S. Confronts Failures as Terrorism Spreads in West Africa
New York Times· 4 days agoIn the shadow of the Sept. 11 attacks, the United States rushed troops and military aid to a swath...
Armed conflicts in 2023 highest since end of WWII: Study
Courthouse News Service· 24 hours agoMore armed conflicts took place worldwide in 2023 than any other year since the end of World War II,...
Mali: Repeating History Rather Than Changing It
Strategy Page· 4 days agoSeptember 24, 2018: France and the United States are pressuring the recently reelected Mali president to finally implement the terms of the 2015 peace deal with separatist Tuareg tribes up north ...
Counter-Terrorism: Industrial Decapitation In Action
Strategy Page· 5 days agoJanuary 22, 2018: To those familiar with Arab military history the discovery of so many ISIL (Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant) weapon and ammunition manufacturing operations in Mosul and ...
Nigeria: Loot And Run
Strategy Page· 5 days agoJune 7, 2019: ISIL (Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant) has two “provinces” in Africa. Up north there is ISGS (Islamic State in Greater Sahara) that is currently active in Mali and Niger, ...
