Craig’s response was to signal his men back to the modest cover of the hill crest while he advanced, firing his carbine to ...

In his New Year’s address, Alassane Ouattara, president of Ivory Coast since 2010—when he took power with the aid of French ...

Niger’s ruling military junta says that an ambush by a “group of criminals” killed at least 10 Nigerien soldiers near the country’s border with Burkina Faso.

France’s military withdrawals provide West African states with a long overdue opportunity to assert their sovereignty. But ...

Three countries under military rule have officially left West African ... even though they have forged ahead with their own ...

The Kurds have spent a century fighting for autonomy and confronting brutal repression by Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Iran.

nited States security engagements in West Africa cannot be understood without consideration of regional geopolitical challenges spanning political instability, climate change, humanitarian and food ...

Prime Minister François Bayrou’s ramming through of a deep austerity budget with support of the social-democratic PS and the neo-fascists exposes the bankruptcy of Mélenchon’s NFP.

Meet Frenchman Jules Brunet, the real-life last samurai. Fighting alongside the Shogunate rebels who wanted to maintain ...

French troops completed their withdrawal from Chad this week before a January 31 deadline, the latest blow to France’s ...