A profile of Egyptian Islamic Jihad, a militant Islamist group that is fully merged with al-Qaeda.

Though international observers had hoped Somalia’s transitional federal government would bring stability to the war-torn nation after sixteen years of “failed state” status, by mid-2008 experts said …

A profile of the Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF), a separatist group operating in eastern Ethiopia.

The creation of a new U.S. military command for Africa signals the continent’s growing strategic importance and its many development challenges.

A group of Islamist courts have seized power across much of Somalia. Many outside observers are anxiously watching—and interfering—as the power struggle plays out between the Islamists and the offici…