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Arts & Culture
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Screens
2/25/2023 11:15:48 AM
Africa’s largest film festival kicks off Saturday in the West African nation of Burkina Faso amid soaring jihadi violence that’s killed thousands and displaced nearly 2 million people.
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World
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Africa
2/21/2023 9:12:24 PM
Suspected jihadists killed at least 15 soldiers in troubled northern Burkina Faso, just three days after an ambush that claimed the lives of 51 troops, security sources said Tuesday.
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World
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Africa
2/21/2023 6:21:48 PM
Three UN peacekeepers were killed on Tuesday when their convoy struck a roadside bomb in jihadist-torn central Mali, the mission said, in a fresh blow to the long-running operation.
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World
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Region
2/20/2023 10:02:52 PM
At least 51 soldiers were killed in an ambush by suspected jihadists in northern Burkina Faso, the army said on Monday, adding that 160 of the assailants died during counter-attacks.
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World
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Africa
2/19/2023 8:03:47 PM
Burkina Faso's army announced on Sunday that operations by the French army in the jihadist-hit West African state were officially over.
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World
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Region
2/16/2023 9:40:14 PM
Saif al-Adel, an Iran-based Jihadist, has become the head of Al-Qaeda following the July 2022 death of Ayman al-Zawahiri, the US State Department said Wednesday.
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World
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Africa
2/8/2023 11:50:38 PM
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Wednesday offered support for Mauritania in the fight against jihadism in the Sahel, saying he respected the country's position in the Ukraine war.
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World
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Africa
2/8/2023 8:37:25 PM
Three civilians and three volunteers with the security forces were killed Wednesday when suspected jihadists attacked a village in central-eastern Burkina Faso, a local source said.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
2/2/2023 6:46:34 PM
Egypt will receive on Thursday a Palestinian delegation from the Gaza strip led by prominent members of the Islamic Jihad Movement, official sources told Ahram Online.
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World
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Africa
1/31/2023 2:46:22 PM
Twenty-eight people have died in new attacks by suspected jihadists in Burkina Faso, including 15 who had been abducted at the weekend, the authorities said Tuesday.
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World
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Region
1/26/2023 10:02:28 PM
The deadly church attack in Algeciras has rekindled Spanish concerns about the jihadist threat, which experts say is still present although the country has been relatively spared from attacks in recent years.
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World
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Region
1/24/2023 10:52:13 AM
France repatriated Tuesday 15 women and 32 children held in jihadist prison camps in Syria, the foreign ministry said, in the third major return of French citizens from the Middle Eastern country.
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World
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Africa
1/21/2023 2:20:00 PM
Burkina Faso's army has freed 66 women and children who were abducted earlier this month by Islamic extremists while gathering food in the country's northern Sahel region, according to a state television report Friday.
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World
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Africa
1/20/2023 3:52:22 PM
An Al-Shabaab attack killed seven soldiers Friday at a military camp in a Somali town retaken by the army this week in a major offensive against the jihadist group, the government said.
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World
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International
1/19/2023 3:47:15 PM
Germany's lower house of parliament recognized on Thursday the 2014 massacre of Yazidis by Islamic State group jihadists in Iraq as a "genocide", and called for measures to assist the besieged minority.
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World
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Africa
1/16/2023 8:22:24 PM
Somalia's armed forces on Monday captured a strategic coastal town that Al-Shabaab jihadists had held for more than a decade, officials said.
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World
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Africa
1/15/2023 12:01:42 PM
Police said Sunday that eight people were killed in a roadside bombing claimed by Al-Shabaab in central Somalia where a major offensive is underway to retake territory from the jihadists.
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World
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Africa
1/12/2023 5:34:12 PM
A video showing soldiers hurling a corpse onto a pile of burning rubble in Mozambique's jihadist-hit north "gives a glimpse" of what is happening in a "forgotten war," Amnesty International said Thursday.
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World
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Africa
1/11/2023 7:13:05 PM
At least 12 soldiers died in clashes with jihadists in central Mali, army and police officers said on Wednesday.
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World
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Africa
1/10/2023 6:22:36 PM
Twelve Nigeria security personnel and local vigilantes were killed by unidentified gunmen in an area of northwestern Kaduna state where criminal gangs and jihadists are both active, officials said on Tuesday.
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