Sahel

"I believe that France has made considerable mistakes in its foreign policy in the Sahel and fails to look it in the mirror," former Malian Foreign Minister Kamissa Camara told Newsweek.

If the world pays attention to the Sahel crisis in Africa, a lot can be done to prevent the impending famine.

Is there a better way to defend the U.S. from anti-American terrorism other than weighing into internal fights on behalf of governments that oftentimes disillusion their own populations?

A new ISIS video, entitled "Assault of the Brave Against the Army of the Americans," shows the last moments of four Green Berets killed in Niger last year.

The founder of research firm Fusion GPS said Moscow used the document as a pretext for arrests and killings.

The continued growth is being fueled by high fertility rates and immigration, according to Pew.

George Weah, the new Liberian president, once played for A.C. Milan and Manchester City.

The president's administration sent home about a quarter fewer Mexican nationals than his predecessor in the first 11 months of 2016.

There have been twice as many strikes in Somalia and three times as many in Yemen, report shows.

More than 500 American troops are now stationed in the east African country.

Four U.S. Green Berets were killed in the October 4 attack blamed on ISIS-affiliated militants.

Amad al-Faqi al-Mahdi was jailed for nine years in 2016 after pleading guilty to war crimes.

The group kidnapped the Swedish national from Timbuktu in 2011.

The Group to Support Islam and Muslims bragged about killing Westerners and attacking "a site of debauchery"

France wants the Security Council to back an African force aimed at fighting Al-Qaeda and ISIS-linked groups in the Sahel.

The EU is investing $56 million in a counter-terrorism force in a region awash with militant groups.

Some of the groups were involved in the 2012 northern Mali uprising.

Islamic State militant group accepts allegiance of a militia based in a region high in instability and low in security.

The attacks on Ouagadougou are part of a wider trend of militancy in one of the world's poorest regions.

The pope said that religion "must never be used to justify hatred and violence."

At least 27 are reportedly dead in the attack on a Western target in the West African country.