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For a long time, Burkina Faso had been praised for its stability, as the country was apparently spared from the dreadful consequences of the Libyan civil war in 2011. However, in recent years, and particularly after 2015, security…

Lo scorso 14 ottobre l’esercito nigeriano ha annunciato la morte di Abu Musab al-Barnawi, comandante dello Stato Islamico della provincia dell'Africa occidentale, in inglese Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) . I precedenti…

The killing of Osama Bin Laden in 2011 was a major success for US President Barack Obama, one that marked the US military superiority and, at the same time, opened an exit from Afghanistan. With Bin Laden out, it was possible to say that…

During the Afshar Operation in 1993, when Afghanistan was ruled by competing warlords and after a decade of mass displacement and a complete collapse of the state, the late Tajik military commander Ahmad Shāh Masʿūd was among those involved…

Le tragiche immagini dell’aeroporto di Kabul, che le televisioni di tutto il mondo continuano a trasmettere in questi giorni, hanno in parte cancellato l’aspetto più politico di quanto avviene in Afghanistan. Nel Paese si è ormai installato…