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As if to prove to any lingering doubters (few exist) that the Obama administration is going big into Yemen in pursuit of al-Qaeda in the A...

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The Trench has called attention to the reality that French officials have dramatically oversold the threat in Mali by claiming that its cap...

Tough talking and bombing aside, Paris's response in central and northern Mali has assumed a dangerously comical quality. Over the wee...