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After years spent quietly gaining strength, Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin is now the most well-armed militant force in West Africa. No one knows when its fighters will strike next — or where they plan to stop. wapo.st/43D8uV2

Some interesting highlights from this in-depth Rachel Chason and Guy Peterson report: "Plans to relocate (US) drones (from Niger) to Ivory Coast and Benin have been scrapped." (1/2) washingtonpost.com/world/2025/06/…

🇲🇱|#Mali: JNIM has released images of fighters observing Eid al-Adha in the Macina region.

Great reporting from Rachel Chason on JNIM, with great insight from security officials and those affected by the violence. A very timely piece, given May & early June have been one of the deadliest-ever 30-day periods in the Sahel, with JNIM capturing major population centers.

Take the time to read this investigation— spanning 7 countries and including interviews either more than 4 dozen gov and law enforcement officials — into the Hongmen Association, by amazing Rebecca Tan and Pei-Lin Wu: wapo.st/3G9HnYC

Emmanuel Mukuria was last seen on the evening of June 25th, 2025, allegedly arrested by plainclothes officers. A man later told the family that they were held together in prison. We joined in the search.Where is he? washingtonpost.com/world/2025/06/…

Children clung to life in Sudan by the slenderest of threads, supported by community soup kitchens. Then the USAID funding cuts came, and their mothers watched them starve to death one by one. washingtonpost.com/world/2025/06/…

When Hafiz Haroun & I were at a center for malnourished kids in Sudan, a 7-yr-old girl came with her starving little sister and brother. Her mother had disappeared; the kids hadn't eaten for 2 days. At 7, she was doing her best to save the little ones washingtonpost.com/world/2025/06/…

US contractors say their colleagues are firing live ammunition as Palestinians seek food in #Gaza. The AP has obtained videos of a food-distribution site in Gaza and interviewed two American contractors working there.

We spoke with 2 contractors for UG solutions, the shadowy US outfit manning aid sites in Gaza. They say guards are firing live ammo and stun grenades as Palestinians seek food. One said the org is sharing info with the Israeli military. W/ Sam Mednick apnews.com/article/palest…

Trump and Netanyhu are meeting this week for what analysts say could be a turning point “For decades, things have been very stagnant, and now possibilities are opening up that we thought were unimaginable for decades,” said Yohanan Plesner Claire Parker Matt Viser wapo.st/4eDmT7q

The killings of two young men from a wealthy Palestinian village this month, including a 20-year-old American citizen, marked a notable escalation in the battle being waged by Israeli settlers for Palestinian-owned land in the rolling hills of the West Bank.

Today in The Washington Post we published a portion of the known names of 18,500+ Gazan children killed in the war, in Arabic and English. We could only fit 18% of the names on these 2 pages – it would have taken 5 more pages to list them all: