Even a false specter of ISIS in the region will empower those opposed to the peace process and who instead favor pursuit of a military victory against local Islamists.
Tag: terrorism
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AQIM’s leadership has never hidden its ambitions of expanding further into West Africa, partly due to the pressure from an aggressive counterinsurgency campaign by the government in its native Algeria.
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Despite the emerging ISIS threat and ongoing economic collapse, most of Libya’s rival factions remain focused on maximizing short-term profits and subjugating one another.
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The response to the Brussels attacks in the wider international community, although sympathetic to the plight of its citizens, has been somewhat cynical.
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Since the ISIS capture of Mosul in June 2014, the Iraqi government has made the recapture of the city a key domestic goal in its fight to reclaim its territory and reassert its control over a restive minority Sunni population.
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An al-Shabaab video, nearly a month after an assault by the group in El-Adde on a Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) base that killed over 100 Kenyan soldiers serving under the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM), demonstrates a clear sign of the group’s renewed focus on Kenyan targets.
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In the past six months, Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) have executed two deadly, well-coordinated attacks in Mali and Burkina Faso’s respective capitals of Bamako and Ouagadougou.
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In the struggle to unify Libya, conflict continues to plague the center of the country as militants linked to the so-called Islamic State (ISIS) continue to take control of territory and threaten the critical oil processing and export sites in the Gulf of Sirte.
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Pakistan today faces a fundamental choice on whether or not it will continue to pursue its illogical counterterrorism policies, which have largely backfired and now threaten key institutions of the state.
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Naz Modirzadeh, Director of Harvard Law School’s Program on International Law and Armed Conflict, discusses the challenges that face humanitarians working within new counterterrorism and countering violent extremism frameworks.
