It had become a familiar scene in West Africa. A group of soldiers appeared on state television in Benin on Sunday to claim they had seized power. Just two weeks earlier, soldiers seized power in another West African country, Guinea-Bissau, after a closely contested presidential election.

Amal, while it has a military component, operates far more like a political organization than Hezbollah, Boms noted, and Israel has not targeted the group. The Lebanese Shi’a party Amal is positioning itself as a replacement for Hezbollah and coordinating with the terrorist organization to benefit from the reputation it would gain as part of the resistance, experts told The Jerusalem Post on Monday.

NASA is poised to launch four astronauts April 1 on a historic nine-day trip around the moon and back. Here's everything to know about the Artemis II mission.