Counterterrorism
Friday, September 27, 2013 - 08:43
Mali's newly-elected President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita called on Thursday for nations in the Sahara region to create a regional multilateral force that could intervene quickly to respond to the ongoing Islamist threat across the area.
Friday, September 27, 2013 - 08:41
A spokesman for Uganda’s police says officials have bolstered security in all sensitive national installations in the wake of the Nairobi mall attack.
Friday, September 27, 2013 - 08:39
World leaders meeting at the United Nations have been calling for a coordinated response to terrorist attacks in Africa following the deaths of at least 67 people in an attack by Somali militants in Kenya.
Friday, September 27, 2013 - 07:44
Pentagon Press Secretary George Little provided a readout of Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel's meeting with the GCC and Lebanese President Michael Sleiman.
Friday, September 27, 2013 - 07:23
Arrest of Samantha Lewthwaite sought by police agency at Kenya's request following deadly shopping centre attack.
Friday, September 27, 2013 - 00:00
A round-up of some of the top articles and news highlights from around Central Eurasia over the last week:
Central Asia:
Thursday, September 26, 2013 - 13:21
Leaders of the nation's largest Somali community say some of their young men are still being enticed to join the terror group that has claimed responsibility for the deadly mall attack in Kenya, despite a concentrated effort to shut off what authorities call a "deadly pipeline" of men and money.
Thursday, September 26, 2013 - 13:19
Islamists are able to take advantage of porous borders, weak central governments, undertrained militaries, and flourishing drug trades.
Thursday, September 26, 2013 - 10:43
Viewing the deadly siege at a shopping mall in Kenya as a direct threat to its security, the United States is deploying dozens of F.B.I. agents to investigate the wreckage, hoping to glean every piece of information possible to help prevent such a devastating attack from happening again, possibly even on American soil.
Thursday, September 26, 2013 - 10:22
Somali Prime Minister Abdi Farah Shirdon vowed Tuesday (September 24th) that his government would "finish" the al-Shabaab militants who claimed responsibility for the deadly four-day siege at Nairobi's Westgate mall, AFP reported.