by John Bugnacki | May 12, 2015 | Monitor
The Islamic State’s West Africa Province (ISWAP) Boko Haram, the Islamist militant group based in northeastern Nigeria, has recently declared its allegiance to the Islamic State (IS), also known as ISIS or Daesh, and renamed itself the Islamic State’s West...
by Philip Rossetti | Jan 29, 2015 | Monitor
International News Coverage Middle East, Terrorism and Counterterrorism Under-reported conflicts seen affecting millions in 2015 – TRFN Alex Whiting / Reuters While wars in Syria, Iraq and Ukraine make headlines in the West, around 30 other conflicts...
by Luke Lorenz | Jan 20, 2015 | Monitor
International News Coverage Middle East, Terrorism and Counterterrorism Iranian General Killed Sunday in Syria Joshua Mitnick and Dana Ballout / Wall Street Journal Iran said a general in the elite Iranian Revolutionary Guards force was killed in an Israeli...
by Charles Cameron | Jan 9, 2015 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — what’s the value of a human life in tweets, in column inches, in my attention span? ] . I really don’t have much to say — I’ve lived a year in Paris, have never been to Nigeria, am human. "Dead bodies are...
by Hidetoshi Azuma | Dec 5, 2014 | Monitor
International News MENA IS FIGHTERS BESIEGE CRUCIAL SYRIAN AIR BASE The Associated Press Muslim militants pushed forward in their offensive on a major military air base in eastern Syria Friday capturing a nearby village in an attempt to take one of President Bashar...
