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Africa
5/3/2022 2:15:12 PM
Heavily armed Al-Shabaab jihadists stormed an African Union (AU) base in Somalia on Tuesday, triggering a fierce firefight that left an unknown number of casualties, a local military commander and witnesses said.
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Economy
4/30/2022 4:08:00 PM
Director of the Middle East and Central Asia Department at the International Monetary Fund Jihad Azour discusses the findings of the World Regional Economic Outlook report for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region.
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International
4/28/2022 11:42:59 PM
A retired Bosnian Muslim forces general was sentenced to eight years in prison on Thursday for war crimes committed by foreign jihadists during Bosnia's brutal 1990s conflict.
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Business
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Economy
4/27/2022 4:04:47 PM
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is currently in the technical discussions phase with the Egyptian authorities in terms of the anticipated loan programme with the country that aims to address the severe impacts of the Ukrainian war and other ongoing economic challenges, said the IMF’s Director of the Middle East and Central Asia Department Jihad Azour.
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World
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Africa
4/23/2022 8:11:59 PM
Explosives planted at a bar in northeast Nigeria injured 11 people, police said Saturday, the second attack in days targeting drinking spots in Taraba state and claimed by affiliates of the Islamic State group.
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World
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Region
4/1/2022 1:31:54 PM
The fate of 100 children who had been detained in a Syrian prison is unknown more than two months after jihadists attacked the facility, United Nations experts said on Friday.
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Region
3/23/2022 2:35:16 PM
The Syrian Kurdish forces that spearheaded the battle to crush the Islamic State group's self-proclaimed "caliphate" in 2019 warned Wednesday that the world's lack of support risked allowing for a jihadist rebirth.
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World
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Africa
3/21/2022 12:47:21 PM
Thirteen soldiers have been killed in an ambush by suspected jihadists in eastern Burkina Faso, the armed forces said Monday, amid a surge of violence.
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Region
3/10/2022 8:43:41 PM
The Islamic State jihadist group confirmed the death of its leader Abu Ibrahim al-Qurashi in a statement Thursday and named Abu Hasan al-Hashemi al-Qurashi as his replacement.
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Africa
3/7/2022 4:14:03 PM
France's army said Monday that its anti-jihadist force in Mali had killed Yahia Djouadi, a "senior leader" of Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) responsible for finance and logistics.
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World
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Africa
2/19/2022 10:11:33 AM
Mali's ruling junta is demanding the immediate departure of French and European forces, a day after France announced that it will withdraw its troops from the West African country.
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World
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Africa
2/17/2022 12:17:45 PM
President Emmanuel Macron said Thursday that France will withdraw its troops from Mali nine years after it first intervened to drive Islamic extremists from power but intends to maintain a military presence in neighbouring West African nations.
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World
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Africa
2/16/2022 9:42:51 PM
French President Emmanuel Macron invited African leaders for dinner in Paris, while expecting French troops is withdrawing from Mali after nearly 10 years fighting a jihadist insurgency.
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World
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International
2/14/2022 3:53:42 PM
Four alleged accomplices in the murder of an 85-year-old French priest went on trial in Paris on Monday after years of investigation into one of several attacks to have rocked France in recent years.
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Region
2/12/2022 8:44:00 PM
Syrian shelling killed six civilians including women and children on Saturday in Idlib province, the country's last main jihadist and rebel bastion, a war monitor said.
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World
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Africa
2/3/2022 6:03:16 PM
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa visited northern Mozambique on Thursday, supporting the government's latest effort to reassure neighbours and investors that an Islamist uprising is under control.
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Region
1/29/2022 8:13:34 PM
Clashes broke out Saturday between Kurdish forces and Islamic State group fighters near a Syrian prison where dozens of jihadists are still holed up, a war monitor said.
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World
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Region
1/27/2022 12:22:46 PM
Kurdish-led forces hunted down jihadists hiding in the Gweiran prison Thursday, after the prison was hit by an Islamic State group attack a weak ago, as human rights groups appealed for urgent help for wounded inmates.
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World
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Region
1/26/2022 4:40:59 PM
Kurdish forces on Wednesday retook full control of a prison in northeast Syria where Islamic State group jihadists had been holed up since attacking it six days earlier.
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World
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Region
1/25/2022 12:36:15 PM
US-backed Kurdish forces tightened the noose around armed jihadists hunkering down inside a Syrian prison Tuesday, with both sides facing a bloodbath or talks to end the five-day-old standoff.
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