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is not totally alone. The United Nations Security Council has approved a force of more than three thousand soldiers from African countries—including Nigeria, Senegal, Burkina Faso, and Togo—but they need to be trained first, and are not expected to be ready to deploy before September. Nigerian troops, ho

Algeria, for which Al Qaeda of the Islamic Maghreb has taken responsibility, there will be pressure to do more. The outgoing U.S. Defense Secretary, Leon Panetta, has already raised the possibility that the American response to the incident might include military action. For now, at least, the rebels seem con

ibuted to civil unrest throughout the Arab world. High and fluctuating oil prices have caused political challenges across the globe, from Burma and Nigeria to the US and China. As these events have shown, the rapid transmission of price increases to poorer consumers often results in political unrest a

o take a tough line against the U.S. over Iran. This comes at a time when U.S. relations with China have been tense. Indeed, U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta used a recent visit to Vietnam to underscore how the United States intends to back its allies in the Asia-Pacific region and help them enforce thei

piece of his reelection strategy. HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_031955 --- PAGE BREAK --- 16 Advisors: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, National Security Advisor Thomas Donilon. On the issues: Afghanistan/Pakistan: "We have put al Qaeda on a path to defeat," Obama announced last June

ere military advisors have been sent to aid in the fight against the long- running insurgency by the Lord's Resistance Army. There's speculation that Nigeria may be next. It's a measure of how much things have changed in the last four years that Republicans are now attacking the Democratic president for tr