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Russia mulls Mali strategy after failed coup attempt

A coordinated attack by an Al-Qaida-linked group and Tuareg rebels was the most serious on Mali's Russian-backed military junta in years. After years of dominance, this puts Moscow on the back foot.

Anton Mardasov
Assimi Goita, the leader of Mali's military government, meets with Russian ambassador Igor Gromyko at Koulouba Palace in Bamako, Mali, on 28 April 2026. Mali Presidency via Facebook/Handout via REUTERS

Erdoğan, the Lone Wolf

[caption id="attachment_55247709" align="alignnone" width="620"] Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan now has zero friends. (Ozan Kose/AFP/Getty Images)[/caption] The fall from grace of…

Nicholas Birch

Egypt’s Divisive Vote

[caption id="attachment_55247700" align="alignnone" width="620"] Egyptian students who support the Muslim Brotherhood clash with riot policemen outside the University of Cairo campus in the capital…

Alessandra Bajec

Ahmadinejad’s Gift to Rouhani

[caption id="attachment_55247688" align="alignnone" width="620"] Iranian men sell watches along Vali Asr Avenue on December 7, 2013 in Tehran, Iran (Photo by Scott Peterson/Getty Images)[/caption] …

David Patrikarakos

Iraq’s Insurgency Reinvigorated

[caption id="attachment_55247671" align="alignnone" width="620"] A wave of attacks in Baghdad and north of the capital killed 91 people in the deadliest day in more than two years on July 23, 2012…

Curtis Ohlers

Building a Free Press in Yemen

[caption id="attachment_55247663" align="alignnone" width="620"] Sheikh Mohamed Bin Issa Al Jaber (C-L) was joined by former US Presidential Adviser Dalia Mogahed (C), Nobel Peace Prize Laureate…

Catherine Shakdam

The Long Shadow of the Guards

[caption id="attachment_55247560" align="alignnone" width="620"] A member of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guard stands under a national flag on the wreckage of a captured US air force CH-53 Sea…

Christian Emery

Gülenists’ Changing Fortunes

[caption id="attachment_55247518" align="alignnone" width="620"] The Turkish national flag and a poster of Atatürk are seen hanging on a school building on the first day of school on September 16,…

Barçin Yinanç

Winning Back the Revolution

[caption id="attachment_55247526" align="alignnone" width="620"] Ahmed Maher, founder of the April 6 Movement, one of the main groups that spearheaded the 2011 revolution shows a T-shirt reading …

Ahmed Kadry

Blacklisted in Tunisia

[caption id="attachment_55247391" align="alignnone" width="620"] Tunisian President Marzouki (Sean Gallup/Getty Images)[/caption]Tunisia under Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali had its propagandists and…

Youssef Cherif
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