by raffaellopantucci | Dec 30, 2015 | Monitor
It has been a quiet holiday period so far, though I kept busy catching up on work and doing a couple of solicited op-eds. This first one was in response to the British Defence Secretary’s announcement of the deployment of more British forces to help Nigeria...
by raffaellopantucci | Dec 2, 2015 | Monitor
Catching up on some old posting again, this from a piece that was co-authored with RUSI colleague Dr Sasha Jesperson for a special publication issued for the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting that just took place in Malta. Thanks to Sasha for taking the lead on...
by Philip Rossetti | May 14, 2015 | Monitor
Key Reads Taliban claim attack on Afghan guesthouse that killed 14 Hamid Shalizi and Kay Johnson / Reuters The Afghan Taliban claimed responsibility on Thursday for an attack on a popular guesthouse in Kabul that killed at least 14 people, including foreigners...
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 raffaellopantucci | May 11, 2015 | Monitor
And another long ago written piece, that has only emerged now, this time an Occasional Paper for my home institution RUSI looking at Boko Haram and the evolution of Nigerian jihad. This was something that I did a little while back when Ansaru were a more prominent...