On 24/12/15, Nigeria’s President Muhammudu Buhari stated that “Boko Haram has been technically defeated” because they could no longer “articulate conventional attacks on centres of communication and populations”. Yan S-Pierre discusses Nigeria’s security situation. (Photo: Diariocritico de Venezuela / flickr.com / CC BY 2.0)
The year 2015 picked up where 2014 had left off: with a myriad of conflicts. The wars in Syria, Iraq, Libya and Ukraine are still in full swing, and the “Islamic State” still controls huge swats of territory in the middle-east. (Photo: Yann Caradec / flickr.com / CC BY 2.0)
In part II of this blog post, Yan St-Pierre discusses regional actors, the EU & USA’s lack of response and how this benefits ISIS. (Photo: Global Panorama, Image courtesy Pete Souza / flickr.com / CC BY 2.0)
In this 2-part post, Yan St-Pierre explains the ramifications of the Russian involvement in Syria and its impact on the international community, beginning with U.S. loss of credibility & Russia’s opportunism. (Photo: Global Panorama, Image courtesy Pete Souza / flickr.com / CC BY 2.0)
