Foreign Fighters and the Trajectory of Violence in Northern Mozambique

On March 24, fighters from Ansar al-Sunna Wa Jamma (ASWJ) — a U.S. State Department-designated foreign terrorist organization that it calls “ISIS-Mozambique” — launched a multi-day assault on Palma, a coastal town of roughly 75,000 people located in Mozambique’s hard-pressed province of Cabo Delgado. The operation — which reportedly involved covert infiltration, multiple points of … Continue reading Foreign Fighters and the Trajectory of Violence in Northern Mozambique