The al-Qaeda offshoot is focused on defending its territory from Russian-backed Syrian government forces, but it has also clashed with the Islamic State recently. Several members of the Syrian militant group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham were killed in Russian airstrikes early Monday morning. The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported …

The United States lavished military aid on Niger and nearby countries. But the ties we built have turned out to be tenuous. Ever since the US Army established Africa Command in 2007, the vast West African country of Niger has been the apple of our eye. Working with a pro-Western …

Thwarted by minefields, Ukrainian forces won’t reach the southeastern city of Melitopol, a vital Russian transit hub, according to a U.S. intelligence assessment The U.S. intelligence community assesses that Ukraine’s counteroffensive will fail to reach the key southeastern city of Melitopol, people familiar with the classified forecast told The Washington …