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Egypt
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Defence
1/1/2023 1:31:07 PM
The Islamic State jihadist group said Saturday that it had carried out a deadly attack on an Egyptian police checkpoint in the Suez Canal city of Ismailia the previous day.
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World
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Africa
12/29/2022 7:31:29 PM
Forty-six Ivorian troops whose detention by Mali triggered a bitter diplomatic row were brought in for trial at a court of appeal in Bamako on Thursday, an AFP reporter saw.
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World
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Region
12/29/2022 1:23:18 PM
Syrian Kurdish-led forces said Thursday they had launched an offensive against Islamic State group fighters, days after jihadist gunmen launched a deadly prison attack.
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World
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Region
12/26/2022 3:48:01 PM
Six members of Kurdish-led security forces and two jihadists were killed Monday in a failed Islamic State group assault near a prison for extremists in northern Syria, a war monitor said.
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World
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Africa
12/26/2022 1:48:38 PM
Boko Haram jihadists killed 17 herders and stole their cattle following clashes in the troubled northeastern Nigerian state of Borno, self-defence militia told AFP Monday.
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World
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Africa
12/10/2022 8:05:17 PM
German aid worker Jorg Lange was freed Saturday more than four and a half years after Islamic extremists kidnapped him in the West African country of Niger, according to Help, the German aid organization where he works.
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World
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Region
12/7/2022 10:32:43 AM
The horrors of the Islamic State group's rule over northern Iraq may be in the past, but efforts to bring the jihadists to justice are still gathering pace.
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World
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Africa
12/5/2022 4:02:50 PM
West African leaders agreed on Sunday to create a regional force to intervene against jihadism and in the event of coups, a senior official said.
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World
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Region
12/1/2022 10:28:00 AM
Israeli forces killed two Palestinian militants during an arrest raid Thursday in the occupied West Bank, according to the military and the Islamic Jihad militant group.
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World
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Africa
11/30/2022 7:13:26 PM
A court in Ivory Coast on Wednesday began the long-awaited trial of 18 people accused of abetting one of West Africa's bloodiest jihadist attacks -- a machine-gun assault on a beach resort in 2016 that left 19 dead.
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World
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Africa
11/20/2022 3:59:31 PM
Jihadists have attacked an army base and a town in northeast Nigeria killing soldiers and civilians, security sources and residents said Sunday in the latest violence to rock the region.
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World
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Africa
11/9/2022 6:00:10 PM
French President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday announced that France was ending its Barkhane anti-jihadist mission in Africa after over a decade, saying a new strategy would be worked out with African partners.
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World
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Region
11/6/2022 1:36:59 PM
Five people were killed in a suicide bombing targeting a military training camp in Somalia, army officials told AFP Sunday, in an attack claimed by Al-Shabaab jihadists one week after twin blasts left 116 dead.
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World
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Africa
10/30/2022 12:37:58 PM
Suspected jihadists have ambushed and killed 13 soldiers in Burkina Faso's eastern province, security sources told AFP on Sunday in the latest violence to shake the insurgency-torn west African nation.
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World
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Africa
10/27/2022 5:44:07 PM
Armed groups affiliated with the Islamic State group have massacred hundreds of people in northeast Mali this year, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Thursday, adding the state was not doing enough to protect civilians.
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World
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Africa
10/20/2022 4:54:53 PM
London-listed ruby mining giant Gemfields said Thursday it has ceased operations at a mine in northern Mozambique's restive Cabo Delgado province following a jihadist attack at a neighbouring site.
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Business
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Economy
10/14/2022 1:16:49 PM
Director of the Middle East and Central Asia Department at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Jihad Azour said cooperation with Egypt is very strong.
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World
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Africa
10/1/2022 12:49:45 PM
Military officers have seized control of Burkina Faso, claiming to be restoring peace to the jihadist-wracked country as they overthrew a junta leader who had also come to power in a coup at the start of this year.
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World
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Region
9/17/2022 5:30:38 PM
Kurdish forces in northeast Syria on Saturday announced the end of a three-week operation against Islamic State group supporters inside the overcrowded and increasingly lawless camp of Al-Hol.
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World
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Africa
9/13/2022 5:17:34 PM
Somalia's President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud urged citizens to stay away from areas controlled by Al-Shabaab jihadists as he vowed to ratchet up offensives against the militants.
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