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May 11, 2020

Nigeria
Nigeria Security Tracker Weekly Update: May 2–8

This update represents violence in Nigeria and related to Boko Haram in Cameroon, Chad, and Niger from May 2 to 8, 2020.

Map of Nigeria shaded in red to reflect Nigeria Security Tracker-documented deaths per state. Borno state, the northeastern-most state, is dark red, while the rest of the country are shades of pink.
Blog Post by John Campbell Africa in Transition

July 17, 2014

United States
This Week: Israeli-Hamas Brinkmanship and Iraqi Political Progress

Significant Developments. Israel-Gaza. Late on Thursday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered IDF troops to begin ground operations in Gaza. Israel and Hamas had intensified both their fighting…

A car, which police said was damaged in an Israeli air strike that targeted the house of top Hamas political leader Mahmoud Zahar, is seen in Gaza City July 16, 2014 (Salem/Courtesy Reuters).
Blog Post by Robert Danin Middle East Matters

July 19, 2013

United States
You Might Have Missed: Were Early Humans Warlike?, U.S.-Pakistan Relations, and Opinion Polls

Donald Fry and Patrik Soderberg, “Lethal Aggression in Mobile Forager Bands and Implications for the Origins of War,” Science, July 19, 2003, pp. 270-273. A controversy exists regarding mobile forag…

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Blog Post by Micah Zenko Politics, Power, and Preventive Action