US Military Says It’s Hobbled in Tracking Africa Terror Groups

The Defense Department may not have sufficient resources in Africa to properly identify when Islamic State and al-Qaeda offshoots in the restive Sahel region develop the capability to mount attacks on the US homeland, the head of US Africa Command warned.

With multiple groups having the “will and intent” to target the US and its interests, US Africa Command needs “to provide the indication and warnings to know and be able to identify when they shift from that will — intent — to having that capacity and capability,” Air Force General Dagvin Anderson told members of the Senate Armed Services Committee on Thursday.