While recent attacks reflects a long history of confrontation, they should not overshadow the many instances when France was able to develop close cooperation with Muslim communities, even if for pragmatic reasons.
Tag: terrorism
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Turkey and other similarly besieged countries cannot make the fatal mistake of failing to conduct a timely and realistic assessment of the threats they are facing.
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The reality is that Turkey faces a near impossible task in attempting to reduce its terrorist threat due to overlapping challenges depleting its resources.
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Coupled with the threat to tourists has been persistent Islamist militant activity along Tunisia’s long and porous borders with Islamist-embattled Algeria and Libya.
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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.
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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.
