It is here! It is publication day of my new book about ‘Operation Wrath of God’ - My research reveals for the first time how Western intelligence agencies helped Mossad to hunt and kill Palestinians suspected of involvement in terrorist activities in Europe @cambUP_History

Our new study sheds light on "Boko Haram's" expansion into NW Nigeria since 2020 under the command of the infamous Sadiku This collaboration w/ brilliant colleagues @VincentFoucher & Murtala Rufa'i involved lots of original fieldwork and interviews tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

Le Président Bassirou Diomaye Faye met fin aux fonctions du Premier ministre Ousmane Sonko et de son gouvernement. 🔗 Suivez le direct ici⤵️ youtube.com/live/WtiyPAl5vOg…

i'm actually more interested in popular history works that historians universally agree "yeah, that's a solid one." first one that comes to mind is "1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus" by @CharlesCMann

There is a symbiotic relationship between South American drug cartels and terrorist groups in West Africa. A cocaine shipment bound for West Africa, with a street value of $1 billion was recently intercepted with intel provided by AFRICOM. AFRICOM Commander Gen. Dagvin Anderson

sometimes I'll hear about an interesting sounding history book, and then I do some more research and learn that historians actually consider it the stupid book for morons that you should only read if you want to be wrong about everything

Did the Wilson Center's Cold War massive digital archive get deleted? Dear God, hope not...

"The question is not whether Labour values have been usurped by Starmer’s faction. It is what kind of party could be built out of the corpse of Starmer’s party. One option is clearly a more Blairite party: pro-tech giants, the US, and privatisation. But are there any serious options to create a progressive party, one that dares speak out on the issues of the day, that actually communicates with a progressive electorate? It is hard to see at the moment whether the ambition or capacity exists within it. It is worth noting that Starmer’s Party is only barely the official party of the organised working class. Whereas Labour had affiliated to it nearly every major trade union, today only just over half of union members are in party-affiliated unions. And even then some may leave. This is hardly surprising: as it stands its policies, Starmer’s Party’s political instincts, are far closer to those of the Tories and Reform than to the progressive parties that are eating it up. And that is not accidental, or the result of a lack of vision. It was the whole point." Read @DEHEdgerton's obituary for Starmerism newstatesman.com/politics/la…

“Tonight, at my direction, brave American forces and the Armed Forces of Nigeria flawlessly executed a meticulously planned and very complex mission to eliminate the most active terrorist in the world from the battlefield. Abu-Bilal al-Minuki, second in command of ISIS…” - President Trump

"Il faut le dire, ou plutôt le redire : cette guerre aurait peut-être pu être terminée il y a de cela des années si la France n’avait pas sapé toutes les initiatives poussant à l’ouverture d’un dialogue entre les autorités de Bamako et les groupes armés djihadistes."

It’s pretty wild that young George Washington started a war that consumed half the world as the 18th century equivalent of a National Guard Captain.

National Security Action, the group co-founded by Jake Sullivan, is dusting itself off and gearing up for 2028. But a lot of Dems just wish the Biden bros would just go away. As one Democrat told me, “They’re all canceled and they don’t realize it.” puck.news/the-return-of-the-…

En 2024 @Grand_Continent j’ai dévoilé la nature de l’aide ukrainienne au FLA, elle ne s’est pas renouvelé. Non la France n’aide pas FLA-JNIM, non d’anciens légionnaires ne sont pas au Mali. Oui, les gens de ces contrées ne sont pas des marionnettes, mais acteurs de leur destin

“We had believed we were there for a high moral purpose. But somehow our idealism was lost, our morals corrupted and the purpose forgotten.” He wrote one of the great American Vietnam War memoirs and was an exceptional war reporter RIP Philip Caputo nytimes.com/2026/05/08/books…