April 19, 2020
…forming in the oil-rich North African country. The UAE provides unequivocal political, military, logistical, diplomatic, and financial support to Haftar which emboldens him and explains his brazen behavior. According to…
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September 24, 2020
…harmed. AFRICOM, the command responsible for U.S. military operations in Africa, has only acknowledged killing five civilians and injuring six others, in just three incidents, which took place between 2018…
May 22, 2020
…interests. Turkey’s relations with Abu Dhabi are growing increasingly tense while Ankara fears the risks of a geopolitical situation emerging in the Middle East and North Africa whereby the UAE,…
May 18, 2021
…much of Africa, all undertaken pursuant to a misguided post-9/11 Global War on Terror. That said, so far President Biden has left essentially untouched the core assumptions that justify the…
February 28, 2021
…across the North African country. Normalisation of Libya’s relations with the United States and Britain in 2003 allowed for a gradual removal of international sanctions, which coincided with a boom…
February 28, 2021
…a future lies in the competitive rather than collaborative development of vaccines for Covid-19 and their distressingly chaotic distribution to Africa and the rest of the developing world, ensuring that the pandemic…
August 24, 2021
…Greater Middle East and significant parts of Africa, the U.S. will be trying to keep a far lower profile, while remaining militarily engaged through training programs and private contractors. As…
August 17, 2021
…counterrevolution against the pro-democracy “Arab Spring” movement across the greater Middle East and North Africa region since its birth in Tunisia in early 2011. In the GCC, Kuwait is the…
February 17, 2021
…East and North Africa. This is no time to be offering a flood of new weaponry to the Emirates, given its role in fueling the wars in Yemen and Libya,…
August 9, 2021
…Authorization for the Use of Military Force in order to justify U.S. Africa Command’s strikes in support of the U.S.-trained Danab commandos. Afghanistan aside, it is still business as usual…
February 9, 2021
…French president naturally preferred for the U.S. to take over French responsibilities. Paris long took pride in patrolling Francophone Africa, but the burden has increased of late: “The only forces…
August 26, 2021
…previously, local groups in north Africa and elsewhere took the name of al- Qaida). Since then, ISKP have emerged as a distinctly more ferocious and radical force than the mainstream…
January 30, 2021
…costs of almost two decades of war in the Greater Middle East and Africa, my Marine acquaintance’s comments didn’t surprise me. Quite the opposite. In the sort of bitter terms…
September 1, 2021
…Yemen and the Horn of Africa, where the Project estimates that roughly $355 billion have been spent. The Project’s estimate includes the cost of veterans’ care from 2001 to 2050,…
January 26, 2021
…stakes in the outcome of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) dispute, cooperation with both Sudans is critical to Egypt’s efforts to secure its national interests vis-à-vis East Africa while…
September 3, 2021
…response to al-Qaida attacks on two of its embassies in Africa. However, the Saudis kept up the effort, and two weeks before 9/11 the chief Saudi negotiator had been sacked…
September 9, 2021
…in the conflict ever since. In recent years, some of the 254-plus declared military actions in Somalia have also targeted al-Qaida in East Africa and the Islamic State. What does…
August 7, 2021
…Since the promulgation of the Albright Doctrine, U.S. forces have bombed, invaded, and occupied various countries across the Greater Middle East and Africa with elan. They’ve killed lots of people, unsettling millions…
July 26, 2021
…policymakers, a lengthy track record of funding Washington-based think tanks, and an aggressive regional foreign policy ranging from the Horn of Africa, Libya, and Yemen to isolating its Persian Gulf…
July 31, 2021
…on petro-dollar life-support are delegated to foreign workers with no union protection, most of them from Asia and Africa. However, a high fertility rate (over 7 children per woman until…
June 18, 2021
…its combatant commands overseas, including European Command, Africa Command, and Central Command. Significantly demilitarizing our foreign policy and moving towards what Bacevich calls “sustainable self-sufficiency” require that the U.S. dismantle…