Month: May 2022

The Rise of NATO in Africa

Anxiety about the expansion of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) toward the Russian border is one of the causes of the current war in Ukraine. But this is not the only attempt at expansion by NATO, a treaty organization created in 1949 by the United States to project its military and political power over Europe. In 2001, NATO conducted an “out of area” military operation in Afghanistan, which lasted 20 years, and in 2011, NATO—at the urging of France—bombed Libya and overthrew its government. NATO military operations in Afghanistan and Libya were the prelude to discussions of a “Global NATO,” a project to use the NATO military alliance beyond its own charter obligations from the South China Sea to the Caribbean Sea.

Crise humanitaire et sécurité du continent au programme du sommet de l’UA en Guinée-équatoriale

Le sommet des chefs d’État de l’Union africaine s’ouvre pour deux jours ce vendredi 27 mai dans la capitale équato-guinéenne.

Le sommet d’aujourd’hui s’ouvre alors que la crise humanitaire s’est aggravée ces dernières années. Sur 1,4 milliard d’habitants en Afrique, environ 282 millions souffrent de sous-alimentation. C’est 49 millions d’Africains de plus qu’en 2019, selon l’agence des Nations unies pour l’alimentation et l’agriculture (FAO).

Erdogan writes off Greece’s Mitsotakis, maintains stance on NATO expansion

Enraged by the Greek premier’s remarks to US Congress against arms sales to Turkey, Erdogan denounces Greece, along with Sweden and Finland, for supporting terrorism.

Opening up a new battlefront with NATO allies, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced late Monday that he had “written off” Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis for lobbying the US Congress against military sales to Turkey.

New Islamic State leader reportedly caught in Turkey

Islamic State leader Abu Hasan al-Hashemi al-Qurashi has been reportedly arrested in Istanbul, but the news has not yet been independently confirmed.

The Islamic State’s most recent leader, Abu Hasan al-Hashemi al-Qurashi, was captured in a raid in Istanbul, according to media reports Thursday.

Biden Takes Blind Sheikh’s Terror Group Off Terror List

The State Department is not removing Gamaat Islamiya from the terror list because it is defunct. Just the opposite. It’s being removed from the terror list because the Biden administration expects it to be active again. And wants to be able to provide support for it.

National Security Crisis: Russia’s and China’s Nuclear Threats

Russia has not only been modernizing its nuclear triad; it has also been developing new types of nuclear systems….

Russia, of course, is not the only nuclear threat to the United States. China has accelerated its nuclear buildup to the extent that Admiral Charles Richard, Commander of U.S. Strategic Command told the Senate Armed Services Committee last April, “For the first time in our history, the nation is on a trajectory to face two nuclear-capable, strategic peer adversaries at the same time, who must be deterred differently. We can no longer assume the risk of strategic deterrence failure in conflict will always remain low.”