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9/5/2021 9:56:25 AM
Jihadist cells regularly target the Iraqi army and police in the area, but this attack was one of the IS group's most deadly this year.
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9/1/2021 6:10:45 PM
The attack Wednesday morning occurred near the town of Ofai, the US-based Kivu Security Tracker (KST) said on Twitter, adding that the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) were suspected to have carried it out
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8/27/2021 2:59:12 PM
Nigeria's army describes these as mass defections -- the success, it says, of an intensified campaign to end a 12-year conflict that has killed around 40,000 people and displaced around two million more
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8/21/2021 2:10:50 PM
An attack by suspected jihadists on a village in western Niger's troubled "three-border" region has killed 17 people, a local elected official reported Saturday
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8/18/2021 2:47:11 PM
It said the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan following two decades of US occupation was an example to follow
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8/18/2021 1:15:48 PM
The chaos that could ensue in the months and years following the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan risks providing a breeding ground for all jihadist groups, who thrive on instability
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8/18/2021 11:38:01 AM
The massacre bore the hallmarks of jihadist attacks that have battered western Niger since 2015, when an armed Islamist campaign spread from Mali
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8/17/2021 12:06:23 PM
Thirty-seven civilians were killed in a western Niger region that has been battered by jihadist incursions from neighbouring Mali
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8/9/2021 3:26:23 PM
Civilians are increasingly coming under attack as well, with hundreds killed since January in a series of mass killings in villages near the border of Niger and Mali
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8/9/2021 11:17:29 AM
Twelve Burkina Faso soldiers were killed and eight wounded in an ambush by suspected jihadists near the West African country's border with Mali, the government said Monday
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8/8/2021 4:09:45 PM
Rwandan forces deployed last month to help Mozambique's army battle jihadists said they had recaptured control of the key northern port of Mocimboa da Praia from the extremist militants
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8/5/2021 9:14:04 PM
Violence linked to al-Qaida and the Islamic State is increasing in Burkina Faso, killing thousands and displacing 1.3 million people
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8/5/2021 7:22:00 PM
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8/5/2021 3:39:00 PM
'Twenty-four troops were killed, several were wounded and others have scattered into the countryside,' the region's deputy prefect, Haki Djiddi, told AFP
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8/3/2021 2:07:45 PM
Jihadi rebels in Niger attacked a military supply mission in the West African country’s southwest killing at least 15 soldiers and injuring seven others
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8/2/2021 12:01:58 PM
The number of children recruited by armed groups in Burkina Faso rose at least five-fold so far this year, up from four documented cases in all of last year
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7/18/2021 12:42:02 PM
The deaths are the latest violations of a ceasefire deal agreed by rebel backer Turkey and government ally Russia in March 2020 to stem a regime offensive on the jihadist-dominated stronghold
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7/8/2021 1:07:25 PM
France is preparing to reduce its military presence here in West Africa's Sahel region, the vast area south of the Sahara Desert where extremist groups are fighting for control
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7/3/2021 7:05:14 PM
Boko Haram has gained a foothold in at least two villages, Bazoum said at the end of a three-day tour of the southeastern region that has been plagued by jihadist violence since 2015
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7/3/2021 2:48:39 PM
Syria's Kurds have repeatedly urged the international community to repatriate foreign nationals held in crowded camps
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