This number focuses on counterterrorism challenges inward Africa. Next calendar month marks the four-year anniversary of Boko Haram’s kidnapping of equally many equally 276 schoolgirls inward Chibok, Nigeria. The hostage assail created global shock together with sparked the social media crusade #BringBackOurGirls. In our comprehend article, Jacob Zenn outlines the internal dynamics inside Boko Haram that led the grouping to eventually come inward into negotiations together with liberate many of the girls. Zenn compares together with contrasts the terrorist calculus inward this before hostage crisis amongst the kidnapping of 111 schoolgirls inward Dapchi, Nigeria, concluding month, which equally good resulted inward many of the girls beingness released. Our interview is amongst Lieutenant Colonel Kent Solheim, commander of tertiary Battalion, tertiary Special Forces Group, which is currently focused on safety challenges inward Africa. Christopher Anzalone documents how al-Shabaab has continued to accept wages of turmoil inward Somalia to sustain its operations together with keep itself equally the dominant jihadi grouping inward the country. In the wake of rise jihadi violence inward Burkina Faso, including an assail on the French diplomatic mission together with the Burkinabe solid pose down forces headquarters before this month, Héni Nsaibia together with Caleb Weiss profile the latterly established al-Qa`ida-aligned Burkinabe terrorist grouping Ansaroul Islam together with the threat it poses to the country.
Markus Binder, Jillian Quigley, together with Herbert Tinsley examine the Islamic State’s evolution together with deployment of chemic weapons. They depository fiscal establishment complaint that piece the grouping has used such weapons on the battlefield inward Syrian Arab Republic together with Iraq, it has featured footling inward its propaganda, calling into enquiry how useful the grouping sees these weapons inward advancing its strategic goals. While at that spot has been much warning virtually the threat of chemic terror attacks inward the West, the authors depository fiscal establishment complaint the only testify then far that the Islamic State has transferred its chemic warfare expertise from the battlefield to its unusual terrorism activities is the summertime 2017 Sydney hydrogen sulfide plot.
-- Paul Cruickshank, Editor inward Chief
The Terrorist Calculus inward Kidnapping Girls inward Nigeria: Cases from Chibok together with Dapchi by Jacob Zenn
A View from the CT Foxhole: Lieutenant Colonel Kent Solheim, Commander, tertiary Battalion, tertiary Special Forces Group by Bryan Price
Black Banners inward Somalia: The State of al-Shabaab's Territorial Insurgency together with the Specter of the Islamic Stateby Christopher Anzalone
Ansaroul Islam together with the Growing Terrorist Insurgency inward Burkina Faso by Héni Nsaibia together with Caleb Weiss
Islamic State Chemical Weapons: Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Case Contained past times its Context? by Markus K. Binder, Jillian M. Quigley, together with Herbert F. Tinsley
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