The Islamic State Sahel Province (ISSP)—a branch of the Islamic State operating primarily in Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger—is no longer just a regional insurgency in a distant war zone. It is emerging as a hub for external operations that threaten both Western interests in Africa and, increasingly, the West itself. This was highlighted on March 12, when a former member of the U.S. Army National Guard killed one person and injured two others in a shooting at Old Dominion University. The gunman

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