US Africa Command

U.S. Special Forces Free Hostages In Daring Nighttime Raid

AP | By ABDI GULED, KIMBERLY DOZIER and KATHARINE HOURELD | Posted 03.25.2012

Read More: Poul Hagan Thisted, Bilal Hussein, Jessica Buchanan, Video, U.S. Africa Command, Danish Refugee Council, Somali Pirates, Helicopter Raid, U.S. Military Helicopters, Somalia, Kelly Cahalan, World News

MOGADISHU, Somalia -- U.S. Navy SEALs parachuted into Somalia under cover of darkness early Wednesday and crept up to an outdoor camp where an America...

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Andrea Stone

Congressman Sees U.S. Threat In Nigerian Terrorist Attacks

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 11.30.2011

Read More: U.S. Africa Command, Homeland Security, Nigeria, Gen. Carter Ham, Al Shabab, Boko Haram Nigeria, Nigerian Taliban, Video, Underwear Bomber, Al Qaida, Al-Qaeda-in-the-Islamic-Maghreb, Boko Haram, Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, Islamists, Christmas Day Bomber, Times Square Bomber, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Few terrorism experts would deny that a radical Islamist sect that has made a series of increasingly audacious attacks in Nigeria, inclu...

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Bwana Uncle Sam

Eric Margolis | Posted 12.31.2011

Read More: France, China in Africa, Ethopia, Mogadishu, US-Africa-Command, Kenya, Somalia, Pipelines, Djibouti, Shebab, World News
Eric Margolis

Having finished off former ally Muammar Gaddafi, the Pentagon, its new Africa Command, and CIA are now focusing on East Africa. In fact, Africa is hot.

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Happy Birthday, AFRICOM!

Brian Palmer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Africom, Military, Pentagon, Africa, Special Forces, Department of Defense, Liberia, Nigeria, Department of State, U.S. Africa Command, Inside DC, World News
Brian Palmer

Unbeknown to most Americans, the Departments of Defense and State maintain a wide web of military programs across Africa. Collectively, they fall under the jurisdiction of AFRICOM.

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