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A group of armed Islamists make the rounds in Gao, the biggest city in northern Mali, in September. Photo by Issouf Sanogo/AFP/Getty Images. By Jonathan Masters, online writer/editor for the Council on Foreign Relations Introduction Al-Qaida in the Islamic…

The annual World Economic Forum, nestled in the Swiss Alps town of Davos, runs from Jan. 23-27. Photo by Pascal Lauener/Reuters DAVOS, Switzerland -- Forty-four heads of state. Countless cabinet ministers, professors, leaders of industries and NGOs, actors, actresses and…