Al Qaeda

The Egyptian terror leader was standing on the balcony of a safehouse in downtown Kabul on Sunday morning when he was killed by two hellfire missiles fired from a drone. Mr Biden said none of the 71-year-old's family members were injured…
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The memo from April 4, 2016, which had been classified until now, showed links between Omar Bayoumi, at the time a student but suspected to have been a Saudi intelligence operative, and two of the Al-Qaeda operatives who took part in the…
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The bombings, claimed by the Islamic State jihadist group, injected further panic into the final days of an already frenzied US-led airlift.
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The landlocked country has been battered for the past six years by jihadist attacks from neighbouring Mali -- the epicenter of a brutal insurgency that began in 2012 and has also hit Niger.
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The leader of Al-Qaeda's branch in Yemen appears to be still at large despite a United Nations report which claimed he had been under arrest for months, the SITE Intelligence Group and two local tribal leaders said Thursday after he was…
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The leader of Al-Qaeda's Yemeni affiliate has been under arrest for several months, according to a United Nations report released on Thursday.
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US lawmakers on Monday backed legislation granting Sudan legal immunity for past militant attacks, a final step in a historic deal removing Khartoum from Washington's blacklist of state sponsors of terrorism.
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Officials in Switzerland have announced the death a month ago of a Swiss woman held hostage in Mali.
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At least 180 bodies have been found in mass graves in northern Burkina Faso where soldiers are fighting jihadists, a Human Rights Watch (HRW) report says.
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Three leaders have been left dominating the jihadist insurgency in the Sahel, following the death of a top al-Qaeda commander in the West African state of Mali this week.
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