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Africa
Critical and opportune: Time to take out the Houthis
Addressing the threat may provide a critical opportunity to secure strategic alliances that could dramatically alter the future of the region.
Op-eds
Islamic State release highlights the foreign-fighter nature of its recent assault in Somalia
A day after the Islamic State Somalia’s (ISS) brazen suicide assault against a Puntland military base—its most audacious attack to date in Somalia—the jihadist group released images of the men it...
Op-eds
Puntland forces repel Islamic State suicide assault
Earlier today, the Puntland Security Forces (PSF), the armed forces of Somalia’s northern Puntland region, announced thwarting a major assault on a PSF base. Unusually, the attack was not carried out...
Op-eds
Trump must counter Vladimir Putin’s coming deception games — here’s how
Vladimir Putin’s regime is readying a new bag of diplomatic tricks for the second Trump administration, as the Kremlin angles to lure Trump’s incoming national-security team into helping...
Op-eds
Haute Qatar: Sheikha Moza’s Glamour Masks Doha’s Vices
Sheikha Moza Bint Nasser is revered as a champion of education, sustainability, fashion, and art. The glamorous female face of the Qatar regime — and the mother of its current emir — presents herself as a modern face of a traditional, conservative Gulf state. ...
Op-eds
Jihadi history: Kenyan detainee transferred out of Guantanamo shows the extent of Al Qaeda’s jihad in East Africa
The US Department of Defense (DoD) announced yesterday that longtime Guantanamo Bay detainee Mohammed Abdul Malik Bajabu was transferred to his native Kenya. The Ugandan-born Kenyan national...
Op-eds
How Turkey Outplayed Egypt and the U.S. In The Horn Of Africa
Ankara’s recent geopolitical gains go beyond just Syria.
Op-eds
Russia Negotiating With New Syrian Government to Keep Military Bases
Russia Negotiates To Keep Bases: Officials from Russia and representatives of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) — the Syrian rebel group that overthrew Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad...
Flash Briefs
Turkey Brokers Agreement Between Ethiopia and Somalia, Denting Egypt’s Regional Standing
Turkey Mediates Ethiopia-Somalia Agreement: Turkey announced on December 11 that it mediated what President Recep Tayyip Erdogan called an “historic agreement” between Ethiopia...
Flash Briefs
Erdogan Gets His ‘Leader of the Muslim World’ Moment
Syria's change of leadership has given Turkey’s president the regional influence he has always wanted.
Op-eds
Return Funding for Reliable Energy to the World’s Poorest
A centerpiece of President Biden’s agenda was a government led effort to greatly reduce production and consumption of fossil fuels. One of the key policies Biden enacted to pursue this goal was ending...
Op-eds
Why did Israel’s new foreign minister embrace the Kurdish people?
Israel has long enjoyed positive relations with Kurdish people in the Middle East. It is part of a partnership between Jews and Kurds and also shared interests in the region
Op-eds
Al Qaeda’s da’wah campaign in West Africa
Over this month, the Group for Support of Islam and Muslims (JNIM), al Qaeda’s branch for West Africa, has publicized its da’wah (proselytizing) activities in local communities in Mali and Burkina...
Op-eds
Despite Poor Human Rights Record, Qatar Secures Seat on the UN Human Rights Council
Despite its troubling human rights record, the United Nations General Assembly reelected the State of Qatar to the Human Rights Council (UNHRC) on October 9.
Flash Briefs
The challenges facing UN peacekeepers in Lebanon
Irish troops have had a presence in southern Lebanon since 1978, but they now face an impossible mission.
Op-eds
Iran’s FM Abbas Araghchi taps Vahid Jalalzadeh for new role
The appointment does not seem to fit well with Jalalzadeh’s previous record as the head of the Iranian Parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Committee and some of his other roles.
Op-eds
Atoning for Britain’s colonialist past
By encouraging China’s colonialist present
Op-eds
Back in Business: Russian ‘Merchant of Death’ Selling Arms to Houthis
The prolific Russian arms trafficker Viktor Bout, released from American custody in 2022 as part of a U.S.-Russia prisoner swap, is once again plying his old trade, this time selling arms to Yemen’s...
Policy Briefs
Iran Is Using Foreign Islamic Centers to Spread Terror and Hatred; the World Must Close Them
Last month, Germany announced that it would deport Mohammed Mofatteh, the former director of Hamburg’s Shi’a Islamic Center, which local authorities had ordered shut down five weeks earlier for propagating extremism, and for its financial links to Hezbollah. ...