Counterterrorism
Friday, September 19, 2014 - 06:11
Turkmenistan's armed forces have entered the territory of Afghanistan in an apparent effort to drive back Taliban forces that had settled on the border between the two countries, Afghan residents have told the Turkmen service of RFE/RL.
Thursday, September 18, 2014 - 13:46
Tunisian police killed a militant during clashes near the Algerian border, the Interior Ministry said on Wednesday, after the government raised the security alert level before elections next month.
Thursday, September 18, 2014 - 13:12
The increased role of Tunisia’s security apparatus is generating fears of a potential return of the police state.
Thursday, September 18, 2014 - 05:27
The war against terrorism can only be fought with international cooperation and must be led by Africa.
Wednesday, September 17, 2014 - 07:07
President Obama is considering putting combat troops on the ground in Iraq on a “case-by-case basis,” his top military adviser said Tuesday.
Wednesday, September 17, 2014 - 06:47
URUMQI, China — On a rocky hilltop close to the city of Urumqi in China’s troubled Xinjiang region, five men don black bandanas decorated with Arabic writing. A black flag used by jihadi groups across the world flutters behind them as they press their hands together in a circle and pledge their allegiance to holy war.
Tuesday, September 16, 2014 - 07:28
Uzbeks will broadly reject the "Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant" (ISIL) after someone made a public display of trying to win more backers, analysts surmise.
Tuesday, September 16, 2014 - 07:25
Senior Chinese security official Meng Jianzhu met with Uzbekistan Minister of Internal Affairs Akhmedbaev Adkham in Beijing on Monday, vowing to promote closer security cooperation between both countries.
Tuesday, September 16, 2014 - 07:12
In July of this year, France launched Operation Barkhane, an ambitious counterterrorism initiative spread across five countries in Africa's Sahel and Sahara regions. The mission seeks to build upon the success of the French military intervention that drove al Qaeda-linked jihadi militants from northern Mali in 2013, and comes at a time when the US is expanding its own counterterrorism operations on the continent, setting the stage for what some analysts consider a burgeoning Franco-American alliance in Africa.
Tuesday, September 16, 2014 - 06:37
Just miles from where former Guantanamo Bay terror suspects have resettled, American warplanes take off from Qatar's al-Udeid air base in the global war on extremism.