Under pressure from the government and each other, some of Mexico’s most powerful criminal groups are amassing homemade mortars, land mines, rocket-propelled grenades and bomber drones.

On a scorching September 2007 Baghdad afternoon, a 19-man convoy of four armored Blackwater trucks rolled into Nisour Square, one of the city’s most congested and volatile intersections. What ...

Six days later, the UPDF Chief of Defence Forces, Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba, in impulsive swagger, posted the feat on X: “As for al Shabaab, we killed over 300 of you in Bariire ...