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Africa
2/1/2023 6:06:38 PM
The leaders of Somalia and neighbouring countries vowed at a summit on Wednesday to "make the final push" against Al-Shabaab as a wide-ranging offensive against the militants gathers pace.
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World
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Africa
1/31/2023 2:46:22 PM
Twenty-eight people have died in new attacks by suspected jihadists in Burkina Faso, including 15 who had been abducted at the weekend, the authorities said Tuesday.
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Africa
1/16/2023 8:22:24 PM
Somalia's armed forces on Monday captured a strategic coastal town that Al-Shabaab jihadists had held for more than a decade, officials said.
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World
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Region
10/29/2022 3:39:46 PM
Two huge car bombings rocked Somalia's education ministry in the capital Mogadishu on Saturday causing casualties and shattering windows of nearby buildings, police and witnesses said.
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Africa
10/3/2022 3:18:11 PM
Nine people, including senior regional officials, were killed in twin car bomb attacks claimed by the Islamist group Al-Shabaab in Beledweyne in central Somalia on Monday, police said.
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World
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Africa
9/25/2022 2:03:51 PM
A suicide attack claimed by the Somali Islamist militant group Al-Shabaab killed at least seven people and injured nine others in Mogadishu on Sunday, the army and eyewitnesses told AFP.
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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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World
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Region
9/6/2022 4:04:53 PM
Twenty-one separatist fighters and six members of Al-Qaeda's Yemen branch were killed Tuesday, government and security sources said, as an attack by the jihadists punctured months of relative peace in the war-torn country.
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World
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Africa
8/20/2022 12:33:00 PM
At least eight civilians have been confirmed dead in an attack by Islamist militants on a hotel in the Somali capital Mogadishu, an official said Saturday, as security forces continued to battle gunmen holed up inside.
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World
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Africa
8/14/2022 4:04:29 PM
Two local rights groups on Sunday accused Burkina Faso soldiers of massacring more than 40 villagers in the country's deeply troubled north.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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World
8/5/2022 3:11:00 PM
The killing of Al-Qaeda leader Ayman Al-Zawahiri in Kabul has more to do with the US administration than with Al-Qaeda, senior researcher Amal Moukhtar
tells Al-Ahram Weekly.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
8/4/2022 10:14:54 PM
The Al-Azhar Observatory for Combating Extremism (AOCE) denied in an official statement Thursday claims of a familial relationship between late Grand Imam Mohamed Al-Ahmadi Al-Zawahiri with Al-Qaeda leader Ayman Al-Zawahiri, who was killed in US drone attack in Kabul, Afghanistan on 31 July.
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World
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International
8/2/2022 8:22:58 PM
The killing of Al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri in a US drone strike will not affect the operations of the terror group's affiliates across the world, but opens the way for a potentially troubled succession process.
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World
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Africa
8/2/2022 5:11:28 PM
Somalia has appointed the former deputy leader and spokesman for the Al-Shabaab Islamist group as religion minister, Prime Minister Hamza Abdi Barre said Tuesday.
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World
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International
8/2/2022 12:57:42 PM
Many Afghans expressed shock or doubt Tuesday that Al-Qaeda's chief had been killed in Kabul by a US drone strike, saying they couldn't believe Ayman Al-Zawahiri had been hiding in their midst.
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World
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International
8/2/2022 11:36:58 AM
Saudi Arabia welcomed the US announcement that Al-Qaeda head Ayman al-Zawahiri had been killed, the foreign ministry said Tuesday.
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World
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International
8/2/2022 11:36:23 AM
Despite a $25 million US bounty on his head, Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri apparently felt comfortable enough with the Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan to move into a home in Kabul where he would regularly appear out in the open, on his balcony.
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World
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International
8/2/2022 3:44:33 AM
Notorious Al-Qaeda head Ayman al-Zawahiri was killed by two missiles fired at his Kabul home, but pictures showed no sign of an explosion, and US officials say no one else was harmed.
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World
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Africa
7/23/2022 6:35:55 PM
An Al-Qaeda affiliate claimed a deadly suicide attack in a strategic garrison town near the Malian capital, according to jihadist monitor SITE which authenticated a statement from the group.
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Egypt
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Society
7/20/2022 4:42:21 PM
Al-Qaeda’s media arm As-Sahab Media Foundation released a bulletin on Monday that included a death threat against prominent Egyptian journalist and TV host Ibrahim Eissa.
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