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8/1/2023 10:50:50 PM
he first of three flights to evacuate French and European citizens from Niger lifted off Tuesday evening, six days after a coup toppled one of the last pro-Western leaders in the jihadist-plagued Sahel.
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8/1/2023 12:34:30 PM
France prepared to evacuate French and other European citizens from Niger on Tuesday, six days after a coup that toppled one of the last pro-Western leaders in the jihadist-plagued Sahel and stoked anti-French demonstrations.
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7/30/2023 7:48:11 PM
African leaders on Sunday gave the junta in Niger one week to cede power or face the possible use of force, and slapped financial sanctions on the putschists, after the latest coup in the jihadist-plagued Sahel region raised alarm on the continent and in the West.
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7/29/2023 1:35:50 PM
The European Union on Saturday said it would not recognise Niger's putschists who seized power this week and that it was suspending security cooperation with the jihadist-hit country.
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7/28/2023 5:11:50 PM
Niger's putschists named an army general as the new leader of the unstable jihadist-hit nation on Friday, the third day since elected President Mohamed Bazoum was detained, and The European Union on Friday threatened to cut aid to Niger after the announcement.
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7/8/2023 8:41:19 PM
Mali has freed at least two jihadists from the Sahel affiliate of the Islamic State group in a prisoner exchange, a security official and two politicians told AFP on Saturday.
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7/6/2023 10:21:23 AM
Russian warplanes harassed three American drones over Syria on Wednesday while they were taking part in a mission against jihadists, a US commander said.
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7/2/2023 10:35:12 PM
Five people have been killed and 11 others injured after suspected jihadists fired a rocket-propelled grenade at a town in northeast Nigeria's Borno state, two anti-jihadist militia commanders told AFP on Sunday.
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6/18/2023 9:57:10 AM
Malians go to the polls on Sunday to pass judgment on the governing junta's constitution, which has fuelled speculation that the country's strongman ruler will seek election.
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6/17/2023 10:39:54 PM
Malians appear divided over the military junta's loud call for UN peacekeepers to immediately leave the west African country in the throes of a jihadist insurgency.
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6/17/2023 10:17:37 AM
Suspected Boko Haram jihadists have killed 11 farmers in northeast Nigeria, the latest attacks in the conflict-wracked region, local militias told AFP on Friday.
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6/11/2023 11:59:09 AM
Three Iraqi soldiers were killed and four others wounded Sunday in a pre-dawn attack in the country's north blamed on the Islamic State group, a military official said.
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6/9/2023 7:14:53 PM
One peacekeeper died and four others were seriously injured in an attack in jihadist-hit northern Mali on Friday, the UN peacekeeping mission in the country said.
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6/8/2023 12:10:44 PM
Riyadh and Washington urged Western governments Thursday to repatriate citizens who joined the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria, where thousands still languish in prisons or camps.
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6/7/2023 2:42:22 PM
Twenty-one people, most of them members of the security forces, have been killed in Burkina Faso in attacks by suspected jihadists, security sources said on Wednesday.
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6/5/2023 10:33:53 AM
Violence linked to al-Qaida and the Islamic State group has made Burkina Faso a country with one of the world's fastest-growing populations of internally displaced people, with the number mushrooming by more than 2,000% since 2019, according to government data.
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6/4/2023 10:15:10 AM
Fifty Islamic State-group jihadists and 168 Iraqi members of jihadist families were repatriated from Syria to Iraq on Saturday, an Iraqi official said.
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5/11/2023 10:56:45 PM
A second Syrian police officer has died following a car bombing at a Damascus police station, the interior ministry said Thursday, a day after the blast that was claimed by Islamic State group jihadists.
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5/9/2023 8:25:35 PM
More than 13,000 women and children have fled islands on the Niger River in western Niger following "atrocities" carried out by jihadists, state radio said on Tuesday.
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5/4/2023 7:29:35 PM
Belgian police on Thursday arrested seven people suspected of supporting the Islamic State (IS) group and plotting a "terrorist attack", prosecutors said.
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