Al Qaeda linked to more than 250 West African attacks in 2016 | FDD's Long War Journal

Because we have "troubles" focusing on more than one enemy at a time - it often seems that AQ has indeed been forced by our CT strategies to a lesser movement with fewer capabilities and resources. Unfortunately - that is not the case... West Africa is an area that both AQ and IS are in competition for and usually not something you see appear in US media who are looking at IS....... or inward (politically) ... and not at the world as a whole.