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A campaign in the Horn of Africa is now the most active element in the “forever wars” the United States has waged since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

Bilal al-Sudani’s financing of the ISIS branch in Afghanistan that killed 13 U.S. troops in 2021 elevated him on U.S. kill-or-capture lists.

Wilayat Gharb Afriqiyya faction's claimed kidnapping of more than 300 schoolboys in Katsina state indicates expansion of Islamist militancy to northwest Nigeria 16 December 2020 Wilayat Gharb Afriqiyya faction's claimed kidnapping of more than 300 schoolboys in Katsina state indicates expansion of Islamist militancy to northwest Nigeria by Heather Nicell More than 300 schoolboys were kidnapped during an attack by at least 100 armed gunmen on motorcycles at Government Science Secondary School in Kankara town in the northwestern Nigerian state of Katsina in on 11 December. An armed clash broke ...

Growing confidence of ASWJ militants presages increasingly sophisticated attacks over expanded area of operations in Mozambique's Cabo Delgado 14 December 2020 Growing confidence of ASWJ militants presages increasingly sophisticated attacks over expanded area of operations in Mozambique's Cabo Delgado by Heather Nicell At least 25 soldiers were killed and 15 others were wounded during an ambush by Islamist militants in the village of Matambalale in Muidumbe district in Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado province on 29 November. Although at the time of writing no group claimed responsibility for the ...