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What We Are Reading

Is Africa al-Qaeda’s new launch pad? Oren Dorell / USA Today As U.S. forces have largely left Iraq and plan a withdrawal from Afghanistan, intelligence experts see a global threat emerging on a continent that has frustrated foreign forces for much of the past century...

What We Are Reading

Exclusive: Secret State Department cable: Chemical weapons used in Syria Josh Rogin / Foreign Policy A secret State Department cable has concluded that the Syrian military likely used chemical weapons against its own people in a deadly attack last month, The Cable has...

Five things to know about the intervention in Mali

ASP Fellow Joshua Foust wrote for PBS Need to Know about the French military intervention in Mali. Over the weekend France launched an assault on northern Mali, part of an operation to unseat the extremists who have occupied half the country since last year’s coup....