Taiwan faces online threats in the run up to its January 13 election. Companies, governments, and civil society need to work together to defend against the growing influence of digital authoritariani…

Governments have learned to manage many threats, but they are failing to curb the growing power of organized crime.

Ecuadorians say crime and public authorities’ inability, or unwillingness, to stop it is what they are most worried about. 

Each Friday, I look at what is happening in President-Elect Joe Biden’s transition to the White House. This week: Biden faces substantial obstacles in his bid to remake U.S. foreign policy after four…

As a jihadi insurgency spreads across the Sahel, European Union countries are responding to France's call for increased troop deployments in the region. A Franco-Estonian elite unit, Task Force Takuba, has arrived in northern Mali and is based near Gao.

While at prayer on April 13, 2007, the prominent Salafi scholar, Shaikh Jaafar Mahmud Adam, was assassinated at his mosque in Kano. At the time, the murder made a deep impression on mainstream Muslims, many of whom revered Adam. The murder took place in the final days before the 2007 presidential elections, and many observers, including those at the U.S. embassy, thought that the murder was somehow related. But it now seems more likely that Adam was assassinated by a vengeful former member of the Nigerian Taliban. His murder was an early manifestation of the deadly battles among Boko Haram’s competing factions that continue up to the present.