The international community should focus on empowering Syria’s local civil society groups and advocating for women’s rights to ensure a more inclusive society.
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When governments denounce terrorist attacks, backlash follows – typically within a few days, research found.
The capabilities of the Nigerian Air Force have geopolitical implications for combating terrorism and threats of coups in west Africa.
Research indicates significant connections between military service and violent extremism. Though most go on to live peaceful lives, military members and veterans make up around 28% of mass shooters.
The suspect in a truck assault that left at least 15 dead had previously pledged loyalty to the Islamic State group, authorities say.
The US has been involved in Syria in several important ways, including sanctioning Bashar al-Assad’s government for more than a decade.
Islamic State may have lost all of its territory, but the group’s ideological and operational capabilities are far from eradicated.
To win its counterinsurgency war, Mali’s military must focus on the fragility of the state, strained military capabilities, and fallout from Russian-Ukraine crisis.
Authorities have cancelled the singer’s three shows in Vienna after foiling a terrorist threat. In an environment of rising global tensions, vigilance is key.
A spate of terror operations carried out by the Islamic State group affiliate has raised concerns over a potential attack on US soil.
The US said it shared information about a potential attack weeks before the Crocus City massacre.
At least 137 people were killed in the Moscow attack – the latest in a a series of ISIS-K operations outside its traditional stronghold.
Ukraine has denied any involvement in the terrorist attack that killed dozens of people in Moscow, but that doesn’t mean Russia won’t try to use the event as a way to escalate its war with Ukraine.
After five years of operating mostly in western Asia, the Middle East and Africa, Islamist terror groups are again growing in strength in the West.
The first Arab woman nominated for two Oscars, Kaouther Ben Hania is a visionary and a feminist.
A scholar of the Islamic State group says Hamas has undergone a radical ISIS-inspired transformation that has not yet gotten widespread public attention.
Regional rivalries have functioned as oxygen, allowing the rebel group to survive and grow.
The Taliban and the Islamic State group are among the militant groups that have been known to use civilians as human shields in the past, in order to try to shift their opponents’ war calculations.
Hamas and the international community expect Israel to invade the Gaza Strip. The battle will probably be more like recent Middle Eastern combat than Israel’s past fights with Palestinians.
A combination of Nigerian and Nigerien factors dim prospects of Ecowas military intervention in Niger.
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