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5/18/2026 12:32:17 PM
Nigeria and the United States have carried out fresh strikes against Islamic State jihadists in northeast Nigeria, the US military said on Monday.
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5/2/2026 9:30:45 AM
Some military officers in Mali worked with jihadis and separatists who recently launched their biggest round of attacks in over a decade in the conflict-battered country, authorities said late Friday.
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4/28/2026 4:51:40 PM
An alliance of Al-Qaida-linked militants and separatists carried out the largest coordinated attack in over a decade in Mali, marking a dangerous escalation in what is widely considered one of the world’s deadliest regions for extremist violence.
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4/27/2026 6:28:50 PM
Jihadists and Tuareg separatists in Mali have taken control of the key northern town of Kidal after coordinated attacks on strategic junta positions across the country, an ally of the local governor and local sources said.
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4/26/2026 11:50:16 AM
United Nations chief Antonio Guterres on Saturday condemned "acts of violence" in Mali after jihadists and Tuareg rebels claimed attacks against the army across the junta-ruled Sahel state.
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4/25/2026 8:06:58 PM
The army in Mali on Saturday battled what it called "terrorist groups" that launched surprise attacks around the capital Bamako and other parts of the West African nation.
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2/26/2026 5:15:11 PM
At least 30 people were killed in three separate jihadist attacks in northern Nigeria, where escalating violence has choked the region in recent months.
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2/26/2026 4:56:07 PM
Syria confirmed on Wednesday the mass escape of relatives of suspected Islamic State group jihadists from the Al-Hol camp last month following the withdrawal of Kurdish forces who had overseen the facility.
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2/10/2026 1:34:50 PM
More than 4,500 suspected jihadists have been transferred from Syria to Iraq as part of a US operation to relocate Islamic State group detainees, an Iraqi official told AFP on Tuesday.
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2/5/2026 8:15:20 PM
First, the jihadists sent a letter saying they were coming to the village to preach, said Nigerian chief Umar Bio Salihu.
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1/24/2026 2:04:20 PM
Mali’s government has moved to impose fuel rationing to counter widespread shortages caused by al-Qaida-linked groups operating in the border regions that have, in recent months, cut off fuel supplies to the landlocked African country.
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1/22/2026 6:01:46 PM
The US army has begun transferring thousands of alleged Islamic State group jihadists formerly held by Syrian Kurdish fighters to neighbouring Iraq, which said Thursday it would commence legal proceedings against them.
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1/20/2026 11:05:04 PM
Syria's government and the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces agreed a new ceasefire on Tuesday as Washington said the SDF's purpose in fighting Islamic State group jihadists was largely over.
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Africa
11/18/2025 11:39:41 AM
Former Tuareg rebel and Malian diplomat Iyad Ag Ghaly has steered Al Qaeda's Sahel branch JNIM since 2017, spreading its tentacles in the region and far beyond to Gulf countries.
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11/17/2025 7:36:13 PM
By waging an economic blockade and attacking fuel convoys in a bid to strangle Mali's economy, the jihadist group JNIM has become the arch nemesis of Mali, weakening the central government in an unprecedented way.
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11/13/2025 9:36:49 PM
At least $50 million for the freedom of an Emirati sheikh: that is the king's ransom paid two weeks ago to jihadists linked to Al-Qaeda who are pushing to topple the Malian government and impose Islamic law.
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11/13/2025 12:14:08 PM
The African Union chief said there was no genocide in Nigeria's volatile north after US President Donald Trump claimed that Christians were being slaughtered by jihadists and faced an "existential threat".
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11/11/2025 11:44:50 AM
Fatima gripped her newborn tightly against her chest as the Tuareg woman queued beneath the scorching Mauritanian afternoon sun to register herself and her child as refugees.
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11/4/2025 7:01:09 PM
The Nigerian government Tuesday said it does not tolerate religious persecution, responding to US President Donald Trump's threats of military intervention over the killing of Christians by jihadists in the country.
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International
11/4/2025 12:57:44 PM
Cement group Lafarge goes on trial in France Tuesday, accused of paying the Islamic State group and other jihadists protection money to build its business in war-torn Syria.
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