Genocide in Sudan Continues as U.S. Eases Sanctions on War Criminals
The petition below represents the consensus of groups fighting a lonely fight in the American political process to try and...
Nicholas Hanlon
Who is who in Mali? AQIM, Belmoktar’s Crew, and IS Loyalists
Details of an Islamist attack on the Radisson Blu Hotel in Bamako, the capitol of Mali, continue to unfold. As...
Pray for Paris
As information continues to unfold in Paris, the staff and writers of Freefire Blog at the Center for Security Policy...
Iran is new key global player at Syria peace talks; UK will stay in Afghanistan; FARC violence in Colombia election; 7 dead in Burundi as post-election unrest remains
Threat Information Office: Headlines October 28, 2015 Britain to keep 450 soldiers in Afghanistan through 2016; Taliban seizes Darqand The...
Turkey attacks Kurds; US Navy finally addresses Chinese agression; IS vies for influence over al Shabaab
Threat Information Office headlines 10-27-2015 Turkey attacks American allied Kurdish YPG forces A crucial US ally in the fight against...
World’s Top Sponsor of Terror and War Criminal Meet Clock Boy
Ahmed Mohamed got a photo-op with his genocidal rock star, Omar al Bashir yesterday. Bashir is known for threatening to...
U.S. Will Not Promote Democracy in Rwanda
On October 8, Rwanda's supreme court ruled that a motion to extend presidential term limits would be constitutional. According to...
Sudan and Iran were involved in terror attack on USS Cole: Now Sudan must pay
Several law suits by families of victims in the 2000 al Qaeda attack on the USS Cole in Yemen had...
Al Qaeda Does Not Recognize IS as Legitimate
Seeing the IS group in Afghanistan and Pakistan as a clear and existential threat, al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri has...
Boko Haram in Libya
In recent days news broke by Jacob Zenn that Boko Haram fighters are in Sirte Libya helping Islamic State fight...
Abubakar Shekau is Not Dead Yet
A new data point has emerged to color last week's mysterious claim by Chadian president, Idriss Deby, that the leader...
The South Sudan Peace Process Update
Today is the deadline set by IGAD (the The Intergovernmental Authority on Development is a trade bloc hosting peace negotiations)...
Deadliest Terrorist Replaced by a Nobody?
There are two important things to know about yesterday's vexing claim by Chadian President Idriss Deby, that Abubakar Shakau, the...
The Failure to Confront Boko Haram
The former and recent Chief of Defense Staff for the Nigerian military, Air Marshall Alex Bardeh, who was responsible for...
Why the U.S. Can’t Promote Democracy in Burundi
On Tuesday, Burundian President Pierre Nkurunziza's party, the National Council for the Defense of Democracy-Forces for the Defense of Democracy...
Buhari’s G7 Visit Affirms U.S. Favoritism
The pattern of preference by U.S. policy toward newly elected Nigerian President Muhamadou Buhari is officially beyond coincidence. For U.S....