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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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1/24/2022 2:25:53 PM
An Islamic State group attack on a Syrian prison, the jihadists' largest operation in the country in years, has fuelled fears it foreshadows a fully-fledged comeback for the extremists.
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Africa
1/22/2022 3:56:59 PM
Security forces fired tear gas at protesters barricading the streets and throwing rocks in Burkina Faso's capital on Saturday, as anger grows at the government's inability to stop jihadist attacks spreading across the country.
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1/15/2022 10:38:11 PM
A Tunisian court has sentenced to death nine jihadists accused of having beheaded a soldier in 2016, a murder claimed by the Islamic State group, media reported Saturday.
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1/12/2022 2:59:57 PM
Six people were killed on Wednesday in a devastating car bomb explosion in Somalia's capital Mogadishu, a security official and witnesses said.
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1/7/2022 6:34:22 PM
Thirteen civilians have been killed in separate attacks in northern Burkina Faso, a region battling a six-year-old jihadist insurgency, local sources said on Friday.
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Africa
1/5/2022 6:36:12 PM
More than half a million children in Burkina Faso are unable to go to school because of attacks by jihadists, the government said on Wednesday.
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1/3/2022 12:15:21 PM
Jihadist fighters killed nine Syrian soldiers and allied militiamen in an ambush near oil installations in eastern Syria, a war monitor reported Monday.
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1/2/2022 3:06:42 PM
A Palestinian prisoner languishing in hospital after an extensive hunger strike teetered close to death Sunday, sparking international concern and Palestinian demands that Israel release him from detention without charges.
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12/30/2021 6:23:47 PM
At least four people were killed on Thursday when fighters from the Al-Shabaab jihadist group raided a town near Somalia's capital Mogadishu, police said.
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Africa
12/30/2021 5:33:47 PM
Four Malian soldiers were killed and around a dozen others were wounded when they were attacked in the west of the county, the army said Thursday.
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