The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) , is a military alliance, based in Brussels with 30 European and North American countries. (credit: wikipedia commons) By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES Despite the presence of thousands of UN peacekeepers and foreign troops, terror and violent attacks linked to
Credit: Wikipedia / 35e RAP / French troops of the 35th Parachute Artillery Regiment (35e RAP) board a helicopter during a mission. By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES France will continue its Operation Barkhane anti-insurgent campaign in Mali’s Sahel region despite a military coup earlier
Jihadist violence in spreading rapidly in the African SAHEL region By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES Six French aid workers and two locals were killed Sunday in ambush in Niger wildlife park in the West African nation. The group was apparently attacked in a giraffe
Credit: MINUSMA/Gema Cortes / UN MINUSMA peacekeepers travelling to remote parts in Northern Mali. By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES UNITED NATIONS – NEW YORK – The United Nations Security Council last week extended for one year the mandate of the Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission
Credit: Wikipedia Commons / ISAF HQ Public Affairs / German Army soldiers in Afghanistan in front of Dingo infantry mobility vehicles, 2009. By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES Amid a wave extremist violence in Africa’s Sahel region, Germany wants to expand its troop mandate in
Credit: Wikiwand.com / A Burkinabé soldier with an AKM during an exercise. By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES The Jihadist insurgency in the Sahel region of Africa shows no signs of abating as four soldiers were killed in an extremist attack in Burkina Faso
Credit: Gary Raynaldo / ©Diplomatic Times / United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres at UN world headquarters in New York, file photo. By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES UNITED NATIONS – NEW YORK – As the world focuses on the U.S-Iran conflict and rising geopolitical
Credit: unowas / Mohamed Ibn Chambas. Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General and Head of the UN Office for West Africa and the Sahel (UNOWAS) By Gary Raynaldo / DIPLOMATIC TIMES UNITED NATIONS – NEW YORK – Violent Islamist attacks across the West African Sahel