Sub-Saharan Africa

January 12, 2024 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

Beware Hezbollah’s Dual-Nationals

Without stigmatizing diaspora communities or profiling their members, Western intelligence services must work against radicalization and incitement by targeting Hezbollah agents.

October 17, 2023 | Elaine K. Dezenski |

Cash, corruption, crumbling dams — that’s China’s Belt and Road Initiative, 10 years in

As the celebrations for the BRI’s 10th anniversary kick off, attending countries would do well to ask whether their citizens have anything to gain from 'win-win' cooperation with China, Elaine Dezenski writes.

September 6, 2023 | Clifford D. May |

Imperialism returns to Africa

The new colonialists are Chinese, Russian, and Islamist

July 13, 2023 | |

Iran’s President Conducts Influence Tour in Sub-Saharan Africa

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi wrapped up the final leg of his three-day visit to Sub-Saharan Africa with a stop in Zimbabwe on July 13, seeking to bolster Iran’s influence, trade, and business...

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

April 23, 2021 | Thomas Joscelyn |

Why the Russia-China Alignment Is So Worrisome

A new report also looks at demographics and points to concerning trends in jihadist hotbeds.

March 3, 2021 | Clifford D. May |

Uniting France

President Macron deserves credit for trying

May 18, 2020 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Tunisia’s ‘war against an invisible enemy’

Tunisia appears to have contained its COVID-19 outbreak despite a weak healthcare system and has begun to ease its anti-virus restrictions. Nine years after the ouster of the Ben Ali regime, successive...

October 24, 2019 | Benjamin Weinthal |

European lawmakers demand sanctions on Iran for human rights abuses

Members of the European Parliament have called on trade conditions with Iran to hinge on Tehran improving its appalling human rights record. “Iran is a country where women are imprisoned for being women,”...

September 12, 2018 | Clifford D. May |

Extremism and fragile states

Last year, Congress asked the United States Institute of Peace, a government-funded think tank, to develop “a comprehensive plan to prevent the underlying causes of extremism in fragile states in th...

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 17, 2017 | Daveed Gartenstein-Ross

Islamic State 2021

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February 25, 2016 | Daveed Gartenstein-Ross

Remember the war in Yemen? The U.S. Air Force is there

Since beginning an air war against in Houthi rebels in Yemen last year, the Saudis and their allies have relied on U.S. tankers to refuel their aircraft in flight. And these missions con...

January 2, 2015 | Jonathan Schanzer Quoted by Sean Savage - JNS |

After U.N. Defeat, Palestinian Unilateralism Seen as ‘Losing its Luster’

... “[The resolution’s failure] is no great surprise, since the United States has a veto [at the Security Council],” Jonathan Schanzer, vice president for researc...

November 7, 2014 | |

Sinai Crisis Binds Egypt and Israel

Last week, Sinai-based extremists targeted the North Sinai security headquarters with a massive blast, causing damag...

October 23, 2014 | FDD Policy Brief |

Sinai’s Volatility Increasingly Unites Egypt and Israel

Militants in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula carried out a cross-border shooting attack on Wednesday, leaving an Israeli female...

May 28, 2014 | Michael Ledeen

Do We Have To Destroy Radical Islamism In Order To Save Islam?

Is "Islamic democracy" a contradiction in terms, a big fat oxymoron? Years ago, a sympathetic French scholar wrote that Islam was inherently "totalitarian," and Bernard Lewis, when asked by Presi...

January 9, 2014 | Thomas Joscelyn |

Syria’s Al Qaeda Gang Wars

Five days of fierce rebel-on-rebel infighting in insurgent-controlled towns in northern Syria, involving al Qaeda groups taking opposing sides, has prompted an intense debate between jihadist rel...

December 17, 2013 |

Hail to the French

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...