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World
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Africa
1/12/2025 8:29:31 PM
The Sahel region of Africa, between the Sahara and the tropical savannahs to the south, has emerged as a significant base of groups that want to establish jihadist states.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Opinion
12/17/2024 9:45:47 PM
This may be true, but the fact that Western media outlets ignored the dangers ahead, the link with Al-Qaeda, and the Islamist links, together with the Israeli air strikes on Syria, and cheered the incoming faction as though it was made up of heroes was mystifying and suspicious.
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World
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Region
12/1/2024 10:42:25 PM
Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) and allied factions seized key positions in Aleppo, including the airport. With roots in al-Qaeda’s former Syrian branch, Jabhat al-Nusra (al-Nusra Front), HTS has emerged as a dominant force in Syria’s war. But who exactly is HTS?
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World
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Region
11/29/2024 8:30:23 PM
International and regional reactions to ongoing jihadist attacks on Aleppo have come quickly, as Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) – an alliance led by Al-Qaeda’s former Syrian branch, which is designated a terrorist group by Syria and the United States – carried out a major offensive against Syria's second-largest city.
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World
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Region
9/29/2024 3:52:49 PM
US forces conducted two separate strikes in Syria, killing 37 "terrorist operatives" including members of the Islamic State group and Al Qaeda affiliate Hurras al-Din, the military's Central Command (CENTCOM) said Sunday.
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World
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Africa
9/17/2024 4:56:42 PM
An Al-Qaeda-linked jihadist group on Tuesday claimed responsibility for an attack on a military airport and training centre in Bamako, the first attack of its kind in years to hit the Malian capital after Mali's army said that the situation was "under control".
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World
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Region
9/5/2024 12:46:02 PM
Twelve Syrian soldiers were killed on Wednesday by an Al-Qaeda linked group in northwest Syria, according to a war monitoring organisation, the highest such death toll in the region this year.
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World
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Africa
7/13/2024 4:28:00 PM
Five inmates said to be from Somalia's Al-Shabaab jihadist group and three guards were killed in a blaze of gunfire during an attempted breakout from the main prison in the capital Mogadishu on Saturday, prison authorities and witnesses said.
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World
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Africa
6/26/2024 3:25:45 PM
The International Criminal Court on Wednesday convicted an Al-Qaeda-linked extremist leader of war crimes and crimes against humanity in Mali, notably for abusing prisoners as the de facto chief of the Islamic police in the historic desert city of Timbuktu.
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World
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Region
3/11/2024 1:21:44 PM
Al-Qaeda's branch in Yemen has announced the death of its leader Khalid Batarfi and named a successor, SITE Intelligence Group reported late Sunday.
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World
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Region
12/17/2023 10:49:10 PM
Seven civilians were killed and six others injured on Sunday during bombardments by the Syrian army in the last major rebel stronghold in the northwest, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
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World
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Africa
11/28/2023 8:04:53 PM
At least 40 civilians were killed in a jihadist attack in the northern Burkina Faso town of Djibo at the weekend, the UN Human Rights Office said Tuesday.
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World
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Africa
10/4/2023 5:01:36 PM
Mali's army is deploying towards a northern separatist rebel stronghold in a high-risk operation which could foreshadow a widescale confrontation and prove a turning point after a decade of conflict.
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World
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Africa
10/3/2023 8:06:46 PM
A Malian army convoy was moving closer towards the northern rebel stronghold Kidal on Tuesday, following a resumption of hostilities in the region, military and official sources said.
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World
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International
9/6/2023 10:41:38 AM
Britain is to ban Russian mercenary outfit the Wagner Group as a terrorist organisation, Defence Secretary Grant Shapps confirmed Wednesday.
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World
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Africa
8/21/2023 6:24:57 PM
A call by Niger's coup leaders for a three-year transition back to democracy is "unacceptable", a representative of the West Africa bloc ECOWAS has said.
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World
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Region
8/19/2023 11:09:58 AM
A US military judge ruled for the first time Friday that an Al-Qaeda bombing suspect's confession cannot be used as evidence because it was derived from torture, potentially setting a new hurdle for September 11 prosecutions.
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Opinion
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Opinion
8/16/2023 11:57:00 AM
The deteriorating security situation in the African Sahel region underscores the need to re-evaluate the military and security strategies of its countries
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World
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Africa
7/23/2023 10:56:22 AM
In Kenya's rural northeast, roadside bombs and beheadings that killed two dozen people last month appear to be part of a troubling escalation of violence by Al-Qaeda-linked Islamists, analysts say.
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World
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International
7/2/2023 11:13:48 AM
Afghanistan's Taliban government on Saturday seized on an off-the-cuff remark by US President Joe Biden to underscore their claim that there was no Al-Qaeda threat in the country.
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