Russia Hinted At What An Afghan-Pakistani De-Escalation Agreement Could Look Like By Andrew Korybko It can be intuited from a reasonable interpretation of Lavrov’s remarks as informed by Kabulov’s. “Russia & Pakistan Have Polar Opposite Views On Taliban-Led Afghanistan” as revealed… Read More ›
9/11 At 25: CIA Forewarnings And The Dark Legacy Of The War on Terror By Uriel Araujo The true legacy of the post-9/11 era is thus twofold: the continued willingness to support, directly or indirectly, fundamentalist jihadist networks when geopolitically useful,… Read More ›
A Pro-Government Tuareg Leader Warned That Mali’s Separatists Are Repeating Their 2012 Mistake By Andrew Korybko The impending counteroffensive that’s being planned will likely determine the future of Mali. Moussa Ag Acharatoumane, a member of the National Transitional Council and leader… Read More ›
The US’ Joint Operation Against ISIS In Nigeria Sends A Message To The Sahelian Alliance By Andrew Korybko The scenario of a US-backed Nigerian anti-terrorist intervention in Mali is becoming increasingly likely. Trump announced over the weekend that the US and Nigeria carried… Read More ›
Nigeria Signals It’s Preparing To Intervene In Mali By Andrew Korybko Its Defence Minister is preconditioning the public ahead of what might be an inevitable regional war. Bloomberg reported that the Nigerian Defence Minister suggested in a recent interview that “The… Read More ›
Russia’s Tactical Pullback In Northeastern Mali Isn’t A Retreat By Andrew Korybko They’re not the same thing, unlike what many might think, and the difference is important. Reports indicate that Russia has withdrawn from three bases in North-eastern Mali, which the… Read More ›
The Russian-Tuareg War Was Inevitable From The Moment That Wagner Arrived In Mali By Andrew Korybko To channel Putin when referring to Syria’s accidental shooting down of a Russian spy plane in late 2018 while trying to hit an Israeli jet,… Read More ›
Reconciliation, Not Rebellion: The Only Path Forward For Mali’s Tuaregs By Andrew Korybko If the Tuareg end their rebellion, cut off their foreign patrons, and ally with the state against al-Qaeda-aligned JNIM, then elements of the Algiers Accord could be restored,… Read More ›
Five Reasons Why Counterinsurgency Remains Such A Challenge For Mali By Andrew Korybko The solutions are difficult to implement during the crisis, however, but hopefully that’ll happen after (if?) it passes. Saturday’s coordinated attacks across Mali by terrorist-designated Tuareg rebels in the rural… Read More ›
The Tuareg Are Once Again Discrediting Their Cause By Functioning As Foreign Proxies By Andrew Korybko The Tuareg cause – for as legitimate as some might consider it to be – is now being exploited by the West as a cover… Read More ›