Macron Opens Door to France Pulling Some Troops Out of Sahel
US News & World Report· 6 days agoPresident Emmanuel Macron opened the door on Tuesday to withdrawing some troops from Africa's Sahel...
Somalia May Not Survive State Department’s Support for Rigged Elections
The National Interest· 6 days agoGAROWE, SOMALIA—Garowe, the capital of Somalia’s Puntland state, defies the popular image of...
DNI nominee Haines: Spy agencies will speak ‘truth to power’ under Biden
CQ Politics· 6 days agoMark Warner, D-Va., vice chairman of the Intelligence Committee, said at the hearing. Warner also...
Root Causes of Violent Extremism in Africa: Understanding Multi-Disciplinary Factors
TheStreet.com· 6 days agoAbstract The hypothesis of this paper is two-fold: There are multiple root causes of violent...
Burkina Faso's National Reconciliation No Easy Path
Voice of America· 4 days agoThe Fulani are semi-nomadic herders living across Africa’s Sahel region — including Burkina Faso’s north, where Islamist terrorists gained a foothold in...
Analysis | Biden and the West face the threat of far-right extremism
Washington Post· 4 days ago“A cry for racial justice some 400 years in the making moves us,” Biden said, a gesture to the...
Biden Taps a War on Terror Veteran to Stop White Supremacists
The Daily Beast· 5 days agoPresident Biden was sworn into office Wednesday under the shadow of the Jan. 6 insurrection with a pledge to take down the kind of extremists who took over the Capitol. To help lead that effort ...
Global Right-Wing Extremism Networks Are Growing. The U.S. Is Just Now Catching Up.
Talking Points Memo· 3 days agoDuring the past two years, U.S. counterterrorism officials held meetings with their European...
Joe Biden Will Have to Address the War in Afghanistan—Again
The New Yorker· 5 days agoThis time around, for President-elect Biden, the Afghan war is nowhere near as consequential for the...
Arab Spring exiles look back 10 years after Egypt uprising
San Francisco Chronicle· 2 days agoA decade later, thousands are estimated to have fled abroad to escape the government of President...