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1/27/2013 11:58:22 AM
Two years after the so called 'Arab Spring' revolutions, a significant new geopolitical landscape is developing in the Arab world and North Africa with the emergence of radical and Islamist movements
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1/27/2013 11:11:27 AM
Retired CIA veteran Bruce Riedel, a counterterrorism expert at the Brookings Institution think tank who has advised four US presidents, speaks to AFP about the evolution of Al-Qaeda since 2001
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1/14/2013 2:04:32 PM
Tunisians mark the second anniversary on Monday of dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali's flight into exile in the first of the Arab Spring uprisings but insecurity and social tensions persist
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Opinion
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12/26/2012 10:06:02 PM
Political Islamist groups not only polarise and divide Egyptian society, but are at odds amongst themselves, a reality that could have grave consequences on the country's territorial integrity
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World
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12/11/2012 11:07:56 AM
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Books
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11/28/2012 7:50:56 PM
New book on the Muslim Brotherhood charts internal discord in the group and its relation to armed struggle and jihadists in pre-revolution Egypt
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World
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11/24/2012 7:40:00 PM
Morocco's police dismantled a 'jihadist cell' sending young men to fight for organizations linked to Al-Qaeda in northern Mali.
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World
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International
10/22/2012 2:35:22 PM
In Mali, hundreds of jihadists streamed into northern Mali to help armed Islamists as Malian neighbors are speeding up their efforts to capture back Mali's north from Al-Qaeda linked militants
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World
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International
10/21/2012 8:59:15 PM
Security sources reveal arrival of hundreds of jihadist fighters from different African countries to militarily back Islamist groups against expected foreign intervention in war-torn country
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Opinion
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10/10/2012 8:19:26 PM
Since the January 25 Revolution, Egyptian politicians have pondered what to do about the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty - is now the time to be making changes?
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World
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International
10/10/2012 5:19:35 PM
Seven suspected Jihadists including a Belgian arrested for attempting to 'indoctrinate young Brussles Muslims', following a police raid carried out police
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Egypt
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Politics
10/7/2012 5:15:57 PM
Mohamed El-Zawahiri, brother of Al-Qaeda leader Ayman El-Zawahiri, offers to mediate end to conflict between jihadists and Egyptian forces in Sinai Peninsula
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Egypt
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Politics
9/26/2012 12:52:42 PM
Egyptian-born US columnist Mona Eltahawy arrested for spray painting over New York subway advert that equates Israel with civilisation and Palestine with jihadists and savages
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9/14/2012 3:27:13 PM
Almost 2,000 Islamists protest in the Jordanian capital Amman against the controversial anti-Islam film; some 400 Salafist Jihadists demonstrate near the US embassy
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Egypt
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Politics
8/29/2012 10:07:05 AM
Egypt's Islamist president is using former jihadists to mediate with radical Islamists in Sinai
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Egypt
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Politics
8/17/2012 12:41:49 AM
Mujahideen Shura Council rejects Israeli accusations of its involvement in Sinai border attack, charges media with blaming Palestinians without evidence
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8/9/2012 10:18:26 PM
Mali's government said Thursday that military intervention in the Islamist-held north was 'inevitable' as the jihadists defied mediation efforts and cut off the hand of a thief
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World
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International
7/8/2012 6:18:09 PM
Al-Qaeda Malian offshoot says it has broken off negotiations for the release of the Algerian hostages who have been held in African country since April
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World
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6/14/2012 2:17:43 PM
After militants were forced out of their major strongholds of Zinjibar and Jaar, Yemeni troops and tribesmen advance on the southern coastal town of Shaqra, driving out al-Qaeda members in a US-backed offensive
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World
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6/9/2012 1:34:46 PM
Yemeni troops kill nine Al-Qaeda militants on Jaar outskirts after the extremists killed two soldiers
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