See articleA two-week-old ceasefire in the Central African Republic collapsed, as conflict resumed between fighters tied to Muslim and Christian militias.
That nexus of chemical weapons depots and militant fighters tied to international terrorist organizations, he said, could threaten American allies that border Syria, American troops in the region and perhaps even United States territory.
He said the move had been inspired by the classic film "Lion of the Desert," about the anticolonial Libyan insurgent Omar Mukhtar in which fighters tie their own feet before a battle to head off the temptation to flee.
The Burmese army said in response that it had killed 370 fighters tied to the group, though Rohingya activists said that many were not fighters and that the number of dead would rise.
But behind the warm words lie grimmer concerns, the biggest being the entrenchment of terror networks in the al-Qaeda-held Sahel.Islamist fighters tied to al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) have ruled a big swathe of northern Mali since March, dividing the country in two.
When Hadiza Mala smuggled her four children out of a Boko Haram camp with another woman, the fighters tied her down under the blazing sun for a day.
On the other hand, as Professor Peter Neumann of Kings College London's International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation notes, citing the specific cluster of ISIS fighters tied to Manchester and Portsmouth that he has studied for years, "Face-to-face relationships remain key.
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