Ceuta (Spain) “Today that are fewer routes, it’s a holiday today. But you just wait here, the next bus that passes close to El Principe arrives in ten minutes.” Those ten minutes saved us from a shooting. It’s a few...
(Cairo) A training of Egyptian and Togolese troops has just wrapped up at a military base in western Egypt, with Cairo working hard to help Sahel and Sahara militaries be up to the security challenges facing them. The training, part...
Internal conflict continues to threaten security and democracy in Mali. The African nation is reeling from a series of attacks between the Fulani and Dogon tribal communities. In March, an armed Dogon group massacred 160 Fulani; in what appeared to...
(Cairo) A recent bombing outside the Grand Egyptian Museum, a gigantic museum now being constructed only meters away from the Giza Pyramids Plateau, is focusing minds in Cairo on the ability of the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood movement to use its...
There were no takers. The hard-fought, five-month-long battle started on May 23, 2017 in Marawi City, Lanao del Sur in the southern Philippines. It was between government security forces and Filipino terrorists—primarily the Maute and the Abu Sayyaf groups that...
The contrast in the fortunes of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), or Daesh as it is commonly known, and the Afghan Taliban in the last few years is striking. While Daesh continued to lose territory and influence...
In just two years, Mozambique’s most northerly province transformed from an idyllic, remote, tropical paradise, bursting with economic potential, to a battleground held hostage by an Islamist insurgency. Exactly who these insurgents are, or what they want, remains a mystery....
For too long now in the “war on terror” the United States has turned a blind eye to its enemies’ grievances. Either it dismisses them as unfounded or ignores them altogether. A lot of the problem is that it’s taken...
But it is still Easter Eve in Pakistan, the alert is at the highest level; the soldiers patrol each single entry of the Gulshan and Iqbal Park, but not just them: all the streets leading toward the churches and Catholic places of worship are closed and controlled by the soldiers of the Pakistani army. The Lahore cathedral is going to host the celebration of the festivity. Hundreds of people are converging toward the church. It is evening, there is a celebratory mood in the air and there is a great desire to participate in the scene. There is the Lahore bishop Sebastian Francis Shaw, and there is father Mani, who explains: "In the past they tried to make a terror attack here, but they didn't make it. However they made a massacre in the Yohannabad quarter and on the day of Easter and just before the Holy Days there are always critical moments because, taking advantage of the vast participation of the devotees, the terrorists try to infiltrate and to cause a mass killing".
(Damascus) The glory days of the ISIS, the once frenetically expanding fanatic organisation with large territory holdings in both Iraq and Syria, are now ending. The notorious, savage and blood-drenched jihadi group has been dealt a final knockout blow over...
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