IS encourages supporters to take weapons from the SAF and RSF and to fight to impose Shariah in Sudan, according to Maack After it emerged in Iraq and Syria a decade ago, IS drew hundreds of radicalized Sudanese citizens to its cause. Sudanese extremists also have joined Boko Haram in the Lake Chad region and terrorist groups in Libya. Sudanese nat

rights defenders and líderes sociales (social leaders) have been killed, and in 2023 alone, 79 environmental human rights defenders were killed, most of them members of ethnic communities and campesinos fighting to defend their land The main perpetrators of the violence are non-state armed groups that drive and profit from environmental crime and

The rise in environmental crime not only endangers Colombia’s rich biodiversity but also risks destabilizing the fragile peace Successive Colombian governments have pursued an increasingly militarized approach to environmental protection since 2010. This has exacerbated the suffering of marginalized ethnic communities and subsistence farmers—wh

These attacks against the M?T Headquarters promoted an overhaul of the intelligence agency. First of all, a sweeping purge of suspected and real sympathizers of the putschists was unleashed within M?T with thousands of agents ending in prison.28 Secondly, a new M?T headquarters, nicknamed the “Kale” or “Fortress”, was built outside of Ankar

Even before the events of September 11, 2001, Turkey had been dealing with an active PKK terror campaign. The Turkish intelligence community focus on domestic threats, however, did not preclude out of area operations. This was most demonstrably expressed in the 1999 rendition of PKK leader Abdulla Ocalan from Nairobi Like other NATO members, Turkey