Boko Haram

June 16, 2024 | Seth J. Frantzman |

Sinking ships in Red Sea: Failure of the international community

The international community which should have prevented Hamas from controlling Gaza in the first place, has looked on as Iran then set in motion wars across the Middle East.

June 8, 2024 | Bonnie Glick |

UN Secretary General Abuses His Authority

Along with ISIS, al-Qaeda and Boko Haram, Israel will be put on a UN blacklist

April 7, 2024 | Cleo Paskal |

‘U.S. threat assessment report has several blind spots’

The challenge is that the report needs more strategic and integrated intelligence to appropriately describe today’s threats to the United States and its partners and allies, says Jack Gaines.

April 5, 2024 | Caleb Weiss |

Islamic State’s current da’wah campaign across Africa

Since the beginning of the year, the Islamic State’s central media apparatus has made a concerted effort to highlight its men engaging in da’wah across the African continent. These actions...

March 29, 2023 | |

Israel and Nigeria Will Begin Direct Flights

Latest Developments Israeli Transport Minister Miri Regev approved a deal on Sunday to allow non-stop flights between Nigeria and Israel. Pending final approval by Israel’s cabinet, the agreement...

January 4, 2023 | Clifford D. May |

A sorry summit

Meeting with African leaders, Biden avoids the pivotal issues

November 3, 2021 | Clifford D. May |

Dispatches from troubled lands

They deserve attention – BHL’s self-promotion notwithstanding

April 28, 2021 | Clifford D. May |

The death of an African warrior

With a bit of history, a few memories, and some lessons

December 21, 2020 | Maj Scott D. Adamson  |

Don’t Discount America’s Interest in Keeping Africa Safe

As the Pentagon removes more troops, consider what its modest investment has garnered.

January 13, 2020 | Toby Dershowitz, Talia Katz

Federal lawsuits target both Iran and private firms for allegedly financing Taliban and Al-Qaeda operations that killed U.S. troops

On December 27, 2019, more than 500 members of American military families, including over 100 Gold Star families, filed two lawsuits: one against the Islamic Republic of Iran, and another against eight multinational...

December 26, 2019 | Clifford D. May

The war against Christians

It hit a peak in the last century but it's ongoing in the Middle East, Africa and Asia

April 26, 2019 | Bill Roggio |

Caliphate, interrupted

After being bombarded by four years of U.S. airstrikes, a relentless ground campaign by Kurdish-led U.S. allies, and attacks from Russian, Syri...

February 28, 2018 | Clifford D. May

Black lives in Africa

No nation in Africa is receiving more attention right now than Wakanda. And why not since, as Anthony Lane writes in The New Yorker, Wakanda is “a model of serenity,” that also is &ld...

February 24, 2018 | Daveed Gartenstein-Ross |

Boko Haram

The Islamist Insurgency in West Africa

February 21, 2018 | Thomas Joscelyn

Not So Fast

On January 19, the Pentagon released its new National Defense Strategy. The second paragraph of the 14-page declassified summary painted a dire picture. “Today, we are emerging from a perio...

February 1, 2018 | Yaya J. Fanusie

Boko Haram Financial Assessment

Boko Haram (“Western education is forbidden”) is reeling under the pressure of Nigerian military operations, but its mobility and relatively low-cost operations in poorly governed ter...

December 7, 2017 | Yaya J. Fanusie, Alex Entz

Terror Finance Briefing Book Appendices

Each report in CSIF’s Terror Finance Briefing Book is published with an appendix, listing all of the entities and individuals affiliated with a given terrorist group who...

July 12, 2017 | Clifford D. May

Is it wrong to prefer the West to the rest?

On various occasions and beginning decades before he was elected president, Ronald Reagan warned that “freedom is never more than one generation from extinction.” He understood, and h...

February 23, 2017 | Daveed Gartenstein-Ross

Political Instability in Africa Could Lead to ISIS Resurgence

The Islamic State has faced significant defeats in Africa over the past year but political instability across the northern and western regions could offer a ripe breeding ground for the terrorist...

February 20, 2017 | Daveed Gartenstein-Ross |

Despite Recent Losses, Islamic State Still Threatens North and West Africa, FDD Study Finds

(Washington, D.C., Feb. 20 2017) – The decline of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria may paradoxically help the group in Africa, particularly as state and non-state actors shift resources...