Over the weekend, the French military claimed, and United States Africa Command confirmed, that its forces had killed the leader of al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), Abdelmalek Droukdal, in northern Mali.

New York’s top terrorism official says there’s evidence that members of anarchist groups from outside the city intentionally planned to incite violence at protests calling for justice in the death of George Floyd.

A new report from Burkina Faso shows that rising violence is taking a toll for a generation of children. Welcome to While You Weren’t Looking, Foreign Policy’s weekly newsletter focused on non-coronavirus news.