Terrorism Bound

Washington, March 10, 2020 - European anti-jihadist efforts in the troubled Sahel region are "insufficient" and "uncoordinated," a senior US military official said Tuesday.  "I think that Europe can and should do more before America should do more in this part of the...

Bamako, March 11, 2020  - Unidentified gunmen killed 10 people and burned down a village in central Mali, local officials said Wednesday, the latest bloodshed in a region wracked by jihadist and inter-ethnic violence. The attackers raided the village of Kourkanda near...

Washington, March 8, 2020 - The State Department announced Sunday it had nominated J. Peter Pham, the envoy to Africa's Great Lakes region, as the first US special envoy for the Sahel crisis. Pham's nomination comes amid fears that the jihadist threat in the region is...

At 11:20 AM Tunis time this morning (6 March), two men on a motorcycle attempted to breach the checkpoint leading to the US embassy in the Berges du Lac district. This is where the Tunis stock exchange, major embassies and some large businesses are located. In an...