Counterterrorism
Wednesday, December 16, 2015 - 11:08
In the past few months, major news outlets have highlighted the massive failures of U.S. security assistance efforts to combat terrorism in countries such as Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria. With these failures, a key question is whether or not the United States should increase or decrease the use of security cooperation for U.S. counterterrorism efforts.
Wednesday, December 16, 2015 - 07:11
Pakistan found itself in the crosshairs of Middle Eastern politics on Tuesday as Saudi Arabia named it as part of its newly formed 34-nation military alliance of Muslim countries meant to combat terrorism, without first getting its consent.
Wednesday, December 16, 2015 - 06:54
Representatives of a Shiite Muslim sect in northwestern Nigeria said on Tuesday that hundreds of its members were killed by the military in a massacre over the weekend.
Tuesday, December 15, 2015 - 06:32
The U.S. has donated 18 Toyota pickup trucks, a truck, a front-end loader and other equipment to Cameroon’s military, which will use the equipment to fight Boko Haram militants in the Lake Chad Basin.
Monday, December 14, 2015 - 06:38
he Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA) has warned the Nigerian military authorities against plunging the country into another Boko Haram-like insurgency with the repeated attacks on members of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria. Several members of the Movement were reportedly killed by troops of the Nigerian Army after a confrontation on Saturday in Zaria.
Monday, December 14, 2015 - 06:30
The news reports from France served as a backdrop to an international hunt for extremists that now, surprisingly, has reached the living room of Marieme Sow, thousands of miles away in a country long held up as a model of an Islamic democratic society.
Friday, December 11, 2015 - 06:58
Vehicles and other logistics equipment were handed over by the US Ambassador to the Defence Minister yesterday at the Military Headquarters Brigade in Yaounde.
Thursday, December 10, 2015 - 06:55
Former Nigeria Minister of Finance, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has dismissed new accusations of corruption leveled against her.
Thursday, December 10, 2015 - 06:37
The United States Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Amb. Samantha Power, on Wednesday said that Nigeria urgently needed a viable military action to end activities of Boko Haram.
Wednesday, December 9, 2015 - 10:22
Like most volatile regions in the world, Central Asia has a laundry list of border security issues ranging from smuggling, livestock threats, disputes over land and water, unclear border lines, drug trafficking, and threats of extremist spillover.