I was in Afghanistan when mujahideen guerrillas fought Soviet invaders. Three decades later, security remains precarious and peace a distant dream. Men walking from the Pakistan border into Afghan territory abandoned by Soviet-backed Afghan forces in 1988 (All photos...
The U.S. is considering pulling forces out of the Sahel in Africa, where they are fighting Islamic extremists. Would a withdrawal make Americans safer? U.S. President Donald Trump came to power promising to end “forever wars” in Iraq and Afghanistan and to pull U.S....
A governor in Nigeria is recruiting 10,000 hunters to try to accomplish what the army has been unable to do: defeat Boko Haram militants. A Nigerian hunter (Photo by Mohammed Chiroma) MAIDUGURI, NIGERIA — The new governor of Nigeria’s Borno State is turning to a...
By Jessica Moody The head of Islamic State has been killed. But is the ultra-hardline militant group on its way out? U.S. special forces assassinated Islamic State’s leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, last month in a raid in northwestern Syria. When the head of a...
If the UK leaves the EU, will authorities resurrect a border between Ireland and the province of Northern Ireland — ending two decades of peace? British Prime Minister Boris Johnson made an interesting Freudian slip last week while maintaining he could negotiate to...
