The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has captured El Fasher, the capital of Sudan’s North Darfur State, forcing a complete withdrawal of the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF). On October 26, RSF personnel stormed the...
The director general of the World Health Organization (WHO) declared a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC) on August 14 due to a surge in cases of mpox, formerly known as monkeypox,...
In early 2014, when observers and researchers were sounding the alarm about a potential genocide in the Central African Republic (CAR), al-Qaeda attempted to throw itself into the ring by trying...
Mali’s immediate and near future prospects for security are immensely bleak. France, and many of its international counter-terrorism partners, are long gone. The United Nations’ peacekeeping mission...
The new colonialists are Chinese, Russian, and Islamist
The Wagner Group isn’t playing
Last week US National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said that the Treasury Department will designate the private military company (PMC) Wagner Group as a transnational criminal organisation...
Recent media reports show that the Biden administration is considering designating the infamous Wagner Group, a Russian private military company, as a terrorist entity. While such a move may seem counterintuitive...
Meeting with African leaders, Biden avoids the pivotal issues
President Biden recently stated he would deny congressional resolutions to designate Russia as a state sponsor of terrorism. The president’s response comes amid a broader discussion of how to counter...
Through its weekly Al-Naba newsletter earlier this week, the Islamic State officially claimed its first two operations inside Benin. The attacks now join the chorus of strikes committed inside the littoral...
Congress should insist that U.S. dollars not fund United Nations procurement from Russian companies.
Russian, Iranian, and Chinese imperialism is what should concern us
In Hans Christian Anderson’s children’s classic The Emperor’s New Clothes, the unfortunate emperor parades around the streets in his birthday suit, confident that his fine garments are seen by everyone...
The UN does it incompetently, corruptly, and criminally
This may come as a shock: It’s possible, not likely but possible, that a committee of officials from the Defense, State and Justice Departments, as well as the National Security Council, wi...
If I were to ask an intelligent person like you what happened in the 20th century, or the 19th or the 18th, you could probably sum up the most significant developments. But if I asked you what is...
"...Our concerns will remain with respect to Iranian behavior so long as Iran continues its sponsorship of terrorism, its support for proxies who destabilize the Middle East, its threats against...
Just before leaving office, the Iranian press confronted president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad with a Transparency International report declaring Iran "the second most corrupt country in the world." As t...
This coming spring will mark the 20th anniversary of the Rwanda Genocide, when as many as a million innocent civilians were butchered to death by Hutu tribal extremists in an orgy of bloodshed th...