Volume 16 Issue 24

Articles from Volume 16 Issue 24

Burkina Faso and the Looming Jihadist Threat to Coastal West Africa

12.19.2018 Jacob Zenn

Ten years ago, the prospect that Nigeria would become a jihadist hotspot—let alone the world’s third “most terrorized” country after Iraq and Afghanistan—received hardly any...

Publication Terrorism Monitor Burkina Faso

Briefs

12.19.2018 Brian M. Perkins

Iran—Suicide Attack in Chabahar Underscores Local Turmoil Brian M. Perkins A suicide bomber detonated an explosive-laden vehicle at a police headquarters in the Iranian port...

Publication Terrorism Monitor Iran

Jihadists Are Making Gains in Idlib

12.19.2018 Nicholas A. Heras

The de-militarized zone (DMZ) agreement reached by Russia and Turkey in Sochi on September 17—intentended to stabilize the “Greater Idlib” region of northwest Syria (which...

Publication Terrorism Monitor Syria

Mauritania—Will Islamist Crackdown Make It a Terrorist Target?

12.19.2018 Andrew McGregor

When Mauritania’s President Mohamed Ould Abd al-Aziz identified political Islamists as extremists and national enemies last August, his bluntness surprised some observers: “Proponents of political...

Publication Terrorism Monitor Mauritania