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12/26/2021 3:39:35 PM
Burkina Faso began two days of mourning on Sunday after 41 people died in the latest attack by suspected jihadists in the troubled and largely unprotected north.
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12/25/2021 1:41:13 PM
Mali's government has denied any deployment of Russian mercenaries from the Wagner group following charges by a group of 15 Western powers involved in the fight against jihadists in the Sahel country.
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12/21/2021 1:04:44 PM
French soldiers have killed one of the suspects in last year's murder of six young French aid workers in Niger, the general staff said on Tuesday.
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12/18/2021 11:44:37 AM
Moroccan security forces with US support have foiled a suspected bomb plot by the so-called Islamic State group and arrested an alleged supporter of the outlawed organisation, counter-terror police said Friday.
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12/13/2021 5:11:12 PM
Kurdish special forces backed by the US military killed five suspected jihadists in an airborne operation in eastern Syria, a statement said Monday.
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12/9/2021 11:27:28 AM
Burkina Faso's premier and government resigned Wednesday as protests mounted against officials' inability to combat a wave of jihadist attacks that have killed thousands.
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12/8/2021 5:21:48 PM
Iraqi authorities Wednesday repatriated 100 Iraqi fighters from the Islamic State jihadist group who were being held by Kurdish forces in northeast Syria, a senior Iraqi security official said.
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12/7/2021 12:47:32 PM
Islamist militants waging a brutal insurgency in northern Mozambique have abducted more than 600 women and children over the past three years, Human Rights Watch said in report Tuesday.
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12/4/2021 2:10:29 PM
Suspected jihadists killed at least 30 civilians in an attack on a passenger vehicle in central Mali's volatile Mopti, local officials said Saturday.
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11/30/2021 3:42:46 PM
A Frankfurt court on Tuesday handed a life sentence to an Iraqi man who joined the Islamic State group for genocide against the Yazidi minority, in the first verdict worldwide to use the label.
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11/29/2021 3:21:02 PM
Four soldiers were killed in an attack in northern Burkina Faso, security sources said Monday, bringing the toll from two weeks of raids by suspected jihadists to at least 80.
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11/27/2021 8:14:52 PM
A French military convoy heading to Mali on Saturday ran into more trouble in a town in Niger after being delayed for more than a week by protests in Burkina Faso, with the local mayor reporting three deaths and 18 wounded.
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11/27/2021 4:29:14 PM
Iraqi security forces said they shot dead a convicted jihadist on Saturday as he tried to escape from a prison with two accomplices.
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11/25/2021 3:56:59 PM
Three soldiers and 11 suspected jihadists were killed when an army unit came under fire in northern Burkina Faso, the military said on Thursday.
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11/25/2021 2:05:45 PM
Eight people were killed in a car bombing near a school in Somalia's capital Mogadishu on Thursday, police said, the latest attack claimed by Al-Shabaab jihadists in the troubled country.
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11/17/2021 8:58:12 PM
The death toll in a weekend attack by suspected jihadists on a gendarmerie in northern Burkina Faso has risen to 53, the government said Wednesday.
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11/15/2021 12:11:20 PM
A roadside bomb blew up on a busy avenue in the Afghan capital Kabul on Monday, wounding two people, police said.
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11/14/2021 12:40:44 PM
A suspected US drone strike on Sunday killed three people in central Yemen, including two alleged Al-Qaeda jihadists, local government officials said.
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11/13/2021 3:41:21 PM
Three Iraqi nationals, including a woman, were killed in violence inside the northeastern Syrian camp of Al-Hol that houses relatives of suspected jihadists, a monitor said Saturday.
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10/14/2021 5:49:11 PM
The leader of the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) jihadist group, Abu Musab al-Barnawi, is dead, Nigeria's top military commander said on Thursday.
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