After two decades, and many failed counterterrorism efforts, the Trump administration is considering shuttering U.S. Africa ...

With up to 6,000 fighters, JNIM is now the most well-armed militant force in the Sahel — and among the most powerful in the world, officials and experts say.

A new report from Spain’s National Intelligence Center warns that extremist elements from the Polisario Front have joined ...

The Russian paramilitary group Wagner has left Mali and its units there have been taken over by the Moscow-run Africa Corps, ...

Gen. Michael Langley highlights the threat of African terror groups expanding, with Al-Qaeda factions growing and aiming to ...

The Russian-backed Wagner Group, which spent more than three years fighting Islamic extremists in Mali, will be replaced by ...

The Sahel region in Africa is now the “epicenter of terrorism on the globe,” a four-star Marine Corps general warned Thursday ...

The Russia-backed Wagner Group said Friday it is leaving Mali after more than three and a half years of fighting Islamic extremists and insurgents in the country.

Marine Corps Gen. Michael Langley described the Sahel region, which includes Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger, as “the epicenter ...

The Africa Corps, a Kremlin-controlled paramilitary force, said on Friday it will stay in Mali after Russia's Wagner mercenary group leaves following a 3-1/2 year fight against Islamist militants.

The shift brings Russian support to ‘a more fundamental level’, says Kremlin-backed paramilitary force Africa Corps.

The Kremlin is moving its pieces in the Sahel. A month ago, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov chaired a conference in ...