Nigeria

Blind Sided

A Reconceptualization of the Role of Emerging Technologies in Shaping Information Operations in the Gray Zone

American Innovation Can Counter China’s BRI

In contrast to the BRI’s “railroads to nowhere,” the United States can reframe global infrastructure development around the citizens who need it the most.

Islamic State claims first attacks inside Benin

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...

Kremlin Claims Monkeypox Could Be a Secret U.S. Bioweapon

Washington needs to stop being a pushover in the global info war.

Islamic State conducts second major prison break in Congo

On Aug. 10, jihadists belonging to the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), the local name for the Islamic State’s Central Africa Province (ISCAP), raided the central prison in the eastern Congolese city of...

Rue Britannia? Russian, Iranian and Chinese imperialism is what should concern us

Russian, Iranian, and Chinese imperialism is what should concern us

Biden Administration Foreign Policy Tracker: February

Biden’s defense of democracy

It left a lot to be desired

Dispatches from troubled lands

They deserve attention – BHL’s self-promotion notwithstanding

Taliban lionizes Haqqani commander who celebrated ties to Al Qaeda, held American hostage

The Taliban feted one of its famed commanders, Mullah Sangeen Zadran, on a new billboard that also showed Bowe Bergdahl, an American soldier who was held hostage by Sangeen and the Taliban for nearly five...

Diplomatic Malpractice: Reforming the WHO After China’s COVID Cover-up

OPCW Member States Must Counter Russian Obstruction

Biden’s Half Measures on Ebola Put the United States at Risk

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued an order on Tuesday detailing new public health measures in response to outbreaks of Ebola in Guinea and the Democratic Republic of the Congo...

The Election Nobody is Talking About: Leading the WTO

For months, the world’s attention has been consumed by the race for the White House. Little attention, however, has been paid to another important international election—that of the next director...

Hezbollah Finance in Lebanon

A Primary-Source Review

Strip Qatar’s Homophobic Regime of the 2022 World Cup Now

There is no shortage of compelling reasons to relocate the 2022 FIFA World Cup from the small Gulf country of Qatar to another host nation. The frequently cited arguments range from Qatar bribing members...

Crisis in Lebanon

Anatomy of a Financial Collapse

Voices of America

Obama holdovers run U.S. global media, and they’re not giving it up

Time to practice social distancing from CCP

How many times does CCP have to lie before we just say, ‘ok, they are liars’? It’s time to practice social (and economic and political) distancing from Patient Zero of the Covid-19 outbreak, the Chinese...

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...