The French government has announced it will triple its troop deployment to the conflict-plagued state of Mali.
On Monday, France’s ambassador to the United Nations, Gerard Araud, explained that France…
Is possessing jihadi literature enough to be prosecuted on terrorism charges?
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Jihadist activity has been a primary source of concern for security agencies in the Western world for longer than a decade.
When contrasted against other broadly comparable countries, the threat to Australia…
Suicide bomb attacks, such as this one in Afghanistan last week, continue to wrack the Middle East.
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The day will come when 11 September is just another date on the calendar. But that time is still some way off.
Eleven years after the horrible spectacle of the World Trade Center towers being struck by…
An article in the New Statesman reports that Taliban have signalled their willingness to negotiate an end to the conflict in Afghanistan.
The current situation in Afghanistan is a dramatic example of the old adage that all foreign policy is merely an extension of domestic politics.
Last week, the British weekly, New Statesman, reported…
The aftermath of a car bombing in Mogadishu in February, blamed on Al-Shabab.
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Al Qaeda’s recent acquisition of the Somali militant group al Shabab as its newest franchise has been dismissed in some circles as a propaganda ploy, and a play for relevance by two groups on the decline…
