How Climate Change Is Helping Al Qaeda

The Sahel is environmentally fragile and politically unstable. Here’s how climate change is making a difficult situation worse.

Global Post
By Global Post

NAIROBI, Kenya and GAO, Mali—  The Sahel is an environmentally fragile zone that stretches across Africa just south of the Sahara desert. To get a better idea of how climate change can worsen conflict there, GlobalPost spoke with three experts on the topic: Drew Sloan of energy efficiency company Opower, Marshall Burke of the University of

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Lack Of Trust Delays Signing Of Afghan Troop-Level Agreement

Karzai told tribal leaders: “My trust with America is not good. I don’t trust them and they don’t trust me.

Frederick Reese
By Frederick Reese
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The Afghan War is the longest armed conflict the United States has ever engaged in, with the fighting starting Oct. 7, 2001 and continuing to this day. The fighting -- which was conceived by the administration of George W. Bush as a means to extract Osama bin Laden from Afghanistan and to remove the Taliban from control of the Afghan government,

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Salafists Threaten Blowback For US Raid In Libya

Islamic militants threaten to kidnap Americans after US special forces swooped into Tripoli to capture an alleged Al Qaeda leader.

Tracey Shelton
By Tracey Shelton

  MISRATA, Libya — Islamic militants have called for the kidnapping of US citizens in Libya and targeted attacks on American property following a raid by US special forces to seize a suspected Al Qaeda leader from his home in the Libyan capital, Tripoli, over the weekend. Abu Anas al-Liby, a suspect in the 1998 US embassy bombings in

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Al-Shabab Attacks Continue In Kenyan Cities

The leader of al-Shabab said the attacks will continue until Kenyan troops are withdrawn from Somalia.

NAIROBI, Kenya — The Islamic extremist group that killed scores of people at a Nairobi mall attacked two Kenyan towns near the Somali border, killing three people. The leader of the Somali group affiliated with al-Qaida said the attacks will continue until Kenyan troops are withdrawn from Somalia. The leader of al-Shabab said in a message that

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In Africa, Al Qaeda Finds New Life

Local militants groups are hitching onto Al Qaeda’s ideology, giving it new theaters of operation.

Tristan McConnell
By Tristan McConnell

NAIROBI, Kenya — Al Qaeda-inspired militancy is on the rise in Africa as disparate groups with local grievances find common cause in the global terror group’s tactics and ideology and, in turn, offer it new theaters of operation. Military pressure, drone strikes and the assassination of Osama bin Laden have diminished Al Qaeda globally, leaving

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Russia: Syria Has ‘Material Evidence’ That Rebels Used Chemical Weapons

Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov told Russian state TV, “We cannot but call the nature of conclusions drawn by U.N. experts… as politicized, biased and unilateral.”

Global Post News Desk
By Global Post News Desk
In this citizen journalism image provided by the Media Office Of Douma City, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, a Syrian man mourns over a dead body after an alleged poisonous gas attack fired by regime forces, according to activists, in Douma town, Damascus, Syria, Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2013. (AP Photo/Media Office Of Douma City)

Syria's government has provided "material evidence" that rebels have used chemical weapons in their battle to overthrow it, a senior Russian diplomat said Tuesday. Speaking after a meeting with Syrian officials in Damascus Tuesday night, Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov slammed the United Nations report that detailed the use of

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