I was in Afghanistan when mujahideen guerrillas fought Soviet invaders. Three decades later, security remains precarious and peace a distant dream. It was a short walk with mujahideen Islamist guerrilla fighters from the Pakistani border to the bridge to Afghanistan....
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...
