Africa Accounts for Two-Thirds of ISIS Activity, U.S. Panel Warns on 9/11 Anniversary
JNIM has capitalized on weak governance and foreign withdrawals as Islamic State-linked groups compete for territory and recruits across the Sahel, analysts said.
- The Sahel region has become the world's most active terrorism theater, with at least 7,800 civilian deaths recorded during the first seven months of 2023, according to the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project .
- Consecutive military coups in Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger since 2020 have created security vacuums, while the withdrawal of French and international forces has significantly diminished regional counterterrorism capacity.
- Displacement in Liptako-Gourma and the Lake Chad Basin totals 2.8 million people, while the Wagner Group has exploited these insecure conditions to expand its influence across Mali.
- The United States suspended over $500 million in economic and military aid to Niger following the military takeover, though the U.S. maintains around one thousand troops in the country for counterterrorism operations.
- Climate change exacerbates regional instability, with Sahel temperatures rising 1.5 times faster than the global average, directly damaging livelihoods and fueling competition for resources that extremist groups exploit for recruitment.
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25 Years After 9/11: Terrorism Has Evolved, Not Disappeared
September 11, 2001, remains one of the deadliest and most consequential terrorist attacks of the modern era. Nearly 3,000 people were killed when al-Qaeda demonstrated that a terrorist organization operating thousands of miles from the United States could exploit globalization, international transportation, and open societies to strike the American homeland. The attacks fundamentally transformed U.S. national security policy. Washington launched the Global War on Terrorism, pursued al-Qaeda’s leadership and infrastructure, strengthened homeland security institutions, and built an unprecedented international counterterrorism architecture designed to prevent another attack on the scale of 9/11.
25 years after 9/11, Al Qaeda is no longer the terrorist organization that it was in the past. Although its core has weakened, its subsidiaries maintain a strong presence in Africa and Asia. Militants of the Islamist terrorist organization Al Shabaab, closely linked to Al Qaeda, in Somalia.Image: Badri Media/dpa/picture alliance Abdullah al [...]
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