Making Sense of Mali -- Susanna Wing, Foreign Policy
The Real Stakes of the War Rocking West Africa
The last few months have shaken Mali to its core. In March 2012, the country's 20-year relationship with democracy ended abruptly after a group of low-ranking military officers overthrew the government. Within weeks of the coup, the National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA), a Tuareg separatist group, seized several cities in northern Mali. Adding to the chaos, just weeks after that, fundamentalist Islamist groups, such as Ansar Dine, al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), and the Movement for Unity and Jihad in West Africa (MUJAO), overran those same cities.
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Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials
Al Qaeda, Again. The terrorists don't seem to agree that they've been defeated. -- Wall Street Journal
For Obama, al-Qaeda Is the World's Problem Now -- Janet Daley, Telegraph
Our tangled foreign-policy problems -- Jim Hoagland, Washington Post
We'll need great courage to tackle this deadly new face of terror -- Max Hastings, Daily Mail
Algerian hostage crisis does not mean we are back to dark days of extremism -- Jason Burke, The Guardian
West overlooked risk of Libya weapons reaching Mali, says expert -- Ian Black, The Guardian
The necessity to act in Syria -- Richard Cohen, Mercury News
The Syrian Refugee Crisis -- New York Times editorial
Killing the two-state solution -- Linda S. Heard, Special to Gulf News
Think About It: Bracing for Israel’s ‘Super Tuesday’ -- Susan Hattis Rolef, Jerusalem Post
François Hollande’s new war trappings -- The Economist
Why the Euro Zone Crisis is Over…Until September -- Holly Ellyatt, CNBC
Merkel's Nightmare -- Spiegel Online
India Is Losing the Race -- Steven Rattner, New York Times
Ignoring North Korea’s gulags -- Jared Genser, Washington Post
Chavez is not going quietly -- Jackson Diehl, Washington Post
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