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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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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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10/28/2025 10:25:50 PM
The US embassy in Mali urged American citizens Tuesday to "depart immediately" as a fuel blockade by jihadists who are battling the country's military-run government renders daily life increasingly dangerous.
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10/23/2025 5:25:28 PM
Nigeria's military said on Thursday it had killed 50 armed insurgents using drones to carry out multiple attacks on army bases in the volatile northeast.
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Africa
10/8/2025 5:44:01 PM
In Mali, a month-long blockade by jihadists on fuel imports from neighbouring countries is beginning to seriously disrupt the landlocked Sahelian nation, where long lines form at the few remaining stations with petrol.
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9/15/2025 2:40:36 PM
Three jihadist attacks in northern Burkina Faso since May have killed around 50 people, Human Rights Watch said Monday, urging the military regime to improve the protection of civilians.
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Africa
8/25/2025 1:09:00 PM
Under President Donald Trump the United States has reset relations with west Africa's military leaders on a mutual back-scratching basis, bartering help fighting jihadists for the Sahel region's mining riches, experts say.
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7/14/2025 1:51:08 PM
After years in a Syrian detention camp, Ibrahim Darwish was relieved to be allowed to return home to Iraq, but his joy was quickly punctured by the harsh reality that he had to disown his sons accused of being jihadists.
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Africa
7/7/2025 3:16:13 PM
In the Sahel, a region plagued by jihadist violence, there are roads people steer clear of and others they travel on with their heart in their mouth.
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6/1/2025 7:41:08 PM
Kurdish security forces in northeast Syria said an IS group attack killed three personnel on Sunday, as the jihadists keep up their attacks in Kurdish-controlled areas of the war-torn country.
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Africa
5/5/2025 4:51:07 PM
An attack claimed by jihadists linked to the Islamic State group in a remote tourist town in northern Mozambique has killed at least two rangers, a local conservation group said.
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5/4/2025 12:28:23 PM
Fighters affiliated to the Islamic State group killed at least 11 soldiers in an attack on their base in Yobe state, northeast Nigeria, military sources told AFP Saturday.
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2/11/2025 5:26:24 PM
Syria's semi-autonomous Kurdish administration aims to empty camps in the northeast of thousands of displaced Syrians and Iraqi refugees, including suspected relatives of jihadists, by the end of the year, an official said.
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2/10/2025 9:58:11 PM
Syrians are once again picnicking and smoking shisha amid the ruins of ancient Palmyra, once desecrated by jihadists but still awe-inspiring, and open to the public following the overthrow of President Bashar al-Assad.
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Africa
1/13/2025 6:24:36 PM
Islamist militants have killed at least 40 farmers in Nigeria's northeastern Borno state in the latest violence to hit the conflict-wrought region, a government official said Monday.
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11/28/2024 11:37:04 AM
A Syria war monitor on Thursday said clashes between the army and jihadists killed more than 130 combatants in the worst fighting in the country's northwest in years, as the government also reported fierce battles.
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11/27/2024 8:45:59 PM
Jihadists launched a surprise attack on the Syrian army in the northern province of Aleppo on Wednesday, sparking clashes in which 57 combatants were killed, a war monitor said.
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Africa
9/24/2024 4:22:01 PM
Mali's junta chief met top military officials to "adjust strategy", the presidency said Tuesday, after audacious jihadist attacks in the capital killed scores of people.
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Africa
9/18/2024 6:09:36 PM
West African bloc ECOWAS on Wednesday expressed "strong condemnation" of jihadist attacks which a day earlier hit the Malian capital where questions remained about the rare and deadly strike.
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