EXCLUSIVE REPORTING — The column of Malian government soldiers and Russian mercenaries from the former Wagner Group was advancing through a shallow [...]
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Bottom Line Up FrontAl-Qaeda maintains a stronger position in the Sahel than Islamic State-affiliated groups.Although Western targets have been [...]
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Bottom Line Up FrontAl-Qaeda maintains a stronger position in the Sahel than Islamic State-affiliated groups.Although Western targets have been [...]
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Bottom Line Up FrontIncreasing sectarian violence has destabilized once peaceful Burkina Faso, transforming the country into a hotbedof militant [...]
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Bottom Line Up FrontIncreasing sectarian violence has destabilized once peaceful Burkina Faso, transforming the country into a hotbedof militant [...]
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Bottom Line Up FrontIn March, 130 civilians were killed in an attack in the Mopti region of central Mali, where a growing security crisis threatens [...]
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Bottom Line Up FrontIn March, 130 civilians were killed in an attack in the Mopti region of central Mali, where a growing security crisis threatens [...]
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Bottom Line Up FrontSince 2016, there have been more than 230 terrorist attacks in Burkina Faso, which threatens to destabilize the landlocked West [...]
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Bottom Line: A 2015 peace accord between the Mali government and ethnic Tuaregs in the north of the country has failed to produce economic or [...]
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ISIS has lost approximately 95 percent of the territory it once controlled across Syria and Iraq. The group may now set its sights on establishing [...]
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Five African nations who formed a new counterterrorism force conducted their first joint operation this week in the tri-border area between Mali, [...]
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Earlier this year, The Cipher Brief examined the deteriorating security situation across North Africa, contending that al Qaeda’s regional offshoot, [...]
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Although the United States counterterrorism campaign is focused on key battlegrounds in Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Syria, and Yemen, the threat [...]
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Developments in the Sahel are cause for real alarm. Insecurity in northern and central Mali, the epicenter of much of the region’s al Qaeda-related [...]
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Early Monday morning, at least two terrorists attacked a prominent Turkish café in the Burkina Faso capital city of Ouagadougou, leaving nearly 20 [...]
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Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb’s (AQIM) emergence ten years ago this month was a Hail Mary. In 2004, Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika had [...]
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Four years ago, French forces intervened in Mali, successfully averting an al Qaeda-backed thrust toward the capital of Bamako. The French operation [...]
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Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb’s (AQIM) propensity for kidnapping was back on display earlier this week, as al Qaeda’s North African branch released [...]
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The Cipher Brief spoke with Hans Kanold, CEO of SafeHotels Alliance, a standards organization for hotel security. TCB spoke with Kanold about the [...]
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