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April 21, 2015
How Did 3 American Commandos and 3 Moroccan Women End Up Dead at the Bottom of the Niger River?
Inside the shadowy operations of the US Africa Command.
Nick Turse
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April 14, 2015
The US Carried Out 674 Military Operations in Africa Last Year. Did You Hear About Any of Them?
The US military publicly insists its presence in Africa is negligible. Is that why they call it an American “battlefield” behind closed doors?
Nick Turse
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February 3, 2015
Putting Boko Haram in Context
There's no purely military solution to the insurgency raging across northeastern Nigeria.
Ajamu Baraka and Foreign Policy In Focus
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October 21, 2014
Will the US Go to War Against Ebola?
Countering Ebola will require a whole new set of protections and priorities, which should emerge from the medical and public health communities—not the national security state.
Karen J. Greenberg
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October 9, 2014
Guess Who’s Holding Up Ebola Aid?
A Republican Senator criticized Obama’s plan because it “focuses on Africa.”
Zoë Carpenter
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September 25, 2014
Why Are We Sending Soldiers Trained for War to Respond to the Ebola Crisis?
Few would oppose a robust US response to Ebola, but the Obama administration's deployment of 3,000 troops to Liberia comes amid a broader US-led militarization in West Africa.
Joeva Rock and Foreign Policy In Focus
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May 31, 2001
The Battle of Algiers
A new memoir stirs long-suppressed memories of the “war without a name.”
Adam Shatz