The new program is called the Counterterrorism Partnerships Fund, and it would cost $5 billion in its first year of operation — a stunning increase from the $290 million the Pentagon plans to ...

The Trump administration is considering providing up to $60 million to a five-nation counterterrorism task force in the Sahel region of Africa, several weeks after a deadly firefight drew public ...

Included in that request are $5 billion for the Counterterrorism Partnership Fund, of which $500 million would go to training and equipping Syrian rebels.

President Barack Obama unveiled a proposed $5-billion “terrorism partnership fund” Wednesday to aid other countries in fighting extremists and other radical groups. The President said he would ...

The United States is beefing up its counterterrorism presence in northern Africa to deal with the Islamist threat in Mali and the surrounding region, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Wednesd… ...

Lesley Anne Warner is an Africa analyst at the CNA Corporation and the author of “The Trans Sahara Counter Terrorism Partnership: Building Partner Capacity to Counter Terrorism and Violent Extremism.” ...

The group, whose holdings in the region include a 1,500-acre enclosure whose purpose is to “breed West African cheetahs,” says preventing terrorism is actually part of its mission.

Ivory Coast and France inaugurated a new counter-terrorism academy in the West African country on Thursday, intended to boost regional capacity to combat a growing Islamist threat.

Nonetheless, the United States allocated hundreds of millions of dollars to the partnership and more than 15 other security assistance programs to establish Burkina Faso as a counterterrorism bulwark.

The Obama administration is seeking up to $5 billion to train and equip partners in other countries in order to fight violent extremism and other threats, the White House said on Wednesday.

Building Foreign Security Forces as a Counterterrorism Strategy Is Not a One-Size-Fits-All Approach Before embarking on a new $5 billion fund to support foreign counterterrorism efforts, the ...