Somali forces airstrikes, backed by AFRICOM, Kill 12 Al-Shabaab fighters
A Somali air raid killed 12 al Shabaab fighters in central Somalia and another 35 Islamists were killed by troops in a southwest region as they attempted to strike a military camp there, the government announced. The air raid followed hours earlier when fighters of the al Qaeda-linked group, which has been fighting an insurgency […]
Kashmir’s fragile peace shattered by militants killing 25 tourists in Pahalgam
Twenty-six people were killed and 17 injured when suspected militants ambushed tourists in India’s Jammu and Kashmir state, police said on Wednesday, the deadliest of its kind in the country in nearly two decades. On Tuesday, an attack occurred in a meadow in the picturesque Pahalgam area of the Himalayan federal state, killing 25 Indians […]
How a drone interception fueled tensions between Mali & Algeria
An entirely different conflict unfolds in Tin Zaouatine, a desert area in Mali’s north-easternmost corner. The same area that had seen an unprecedented defeat of Russian mercenaries ambushed by Tuareg rebels in August 2024 is once again at the center of a developing crisis. Between March 31 and April 1, a Turkish-made Akinci surveillance drone […]
Jihadist threat redefines border areas of Niger, Nigeria, and Benin
Jihadist group violent campaigns connected to Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State are transforming security dynamics along Niger, Nigeria, and Benin border areas, a new security report indicates. The report notes that the Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM) and the Islamic State in the Sahel Province (ISSP) have increasingly extended their activities southward from long-held Sahel […]
Fighting continues as Somali forces clash with Al-Shabaab
Al-Shabaab fighters have taken over the strategic town of Aadan Yabaal in Somalia’s Middle Shabelle region after a dawn attack with explosions and hours of fighting, local sources revealed. The assault, which started, continued throughout the day for over five hours and featured heavy fire from both sides. The town, the most important central Somalia […]
Sudan peace conference in London expose global diplomatic paralysis
In spite of subdued hopes, Sudan conference in London was a dissonant reality check. Similar to preceding forums that attempted to hype up a more collective effort to try to resolve Sudan’s two-year-old civil war, the conference gathered a mix of primarily Western, Arab and African nations that have interests in the Sudanese war, plus […]
World leaders condemn Russia over Sumy attack
A Russian missile strike on the Ukrainian city of Sumy, which killed 34 individuals – two of them children – and wounded 117 others, has been roundly condemned by Kyiv’s Western allies. Two ballistic missiles hit the city center mid-morning on Sunday, detonating close to the state university and congress center, with bloodied bodies strewn […]
Colombia reinstates Coca fumigation amid U.S. pressure and domestic dilemma
On 9 April, the Colombian government made a decision President Gustavo Petro had vowed long to eschew: going back to fumigating coca. There are now more coca crops, the precursor to cocaine, than ever before. Bogotá is being pressured by Washington to turn the tide before October, when the White House has to decide whether […]
Tigray’s tensions signal a new Ethiopia-Eritrea conflict
Tensions are rising once more between age-old adversaries Ethiopia and Eritrea over Addis Ababa’s push for access to the sea, raising spectres of another war in the Horn of Africa barely seven years after the two neighbors resumed relations. Young people have been requested to volunteer to join the army by Eritrea in recent months, […]
Trump’s trade war with China risks military confrontation
U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade war has intensified the crisis in global capitalism and heightened the looming threat of military conflict. In a surprising move, Trump suspended higher tariffs for several countries while increasing the rate on China to 125 percent. As of earlier, the Chinese government retaliated against Trump with 84 percent duties on […]