“On June 3, French army forces, with the support of their local partners, killed the Emir of al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, Abdelmalek Droukdel, and several of his closest collaborators, during an operation in northern Mali,” French Armed Forces Minister Florence Parly wrote on Twitter.
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Gunmen killed 24 people, including a pastor, in an attack on a church during Sunday mass in northwestern Burkina Faso, four security sources said on Monday.
Alia Ghanem, the mother of deceased al-Qaeda leader, Osama bin Laden, has given her first interview to Western media, telling The Guardian newspaper that her eldest son was ‘brainwashed’ into extremist ideology.
“The state agency responsible for refugees and migrants, BAMF, has lifted a deportation ban on the man,’’ a spokesman for the western city of Bochum, where the Tunisian resides, said on Monday.
The biggest concession made so far is the release of Hussaini Maitangaran, who spearheaded several deadly attacks in Kano, including Central Mosque attack, which killed more than 1,000 people. He was arrested by the DSS on 31th August 2017. The release was part of Dapchi school girls swap deal
In March, the South Asian nation conducted its first population census in two decades, which was possible thanks to improved security after years of violence linked to al-Qaeda and Taliban militants.
Three police officers suffered injuries
However, the total defeat of Boko Haram in the North East will not be the end of terrorism or insurgency in Nigeria; rather, it will be an opportunity for us to prevent the next one from happening
The 113 of the 122 former prisoners confirmed by US intelligence agencies to have “re-engaged” were released by Obama’s predecessor, George W Bush
Medics at the scene, however, said around 30 people, including 10 women and children, were killed
“Al-Qaeda could be planning attacks on Monday in the states of New York, Texas and Virginia,” unnamed sources said without providing further details
Then, in March, another batch of Islamist militants killed at least 19 people in a gun attack on a beach resort in southern Ivory Coast. Eleven Ivorians lost their lives, and four French citizens were among the dead, as well as one German, one Nigerian, one Macedonian, and one Lebanese
The travel alert, which is in effect until February 24, 2016, said current information suggested that militants with ISIS, al-Qaeda, Boko Haram and other militant groups continued to plan attacks in several regions around the world
A 35-year-old Nigerian, who once wrote rap lyrics for Al-Qaeda in Yemen, was sentenced to 22 years in a US…
Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula on Wednesday released a video calling for lone wolf attacks in the United States of…
President Goodluck Jonathan said Wednesday in New York that the world must act immediately to stop the troubling new phenomenon of terrorists and foreign fighters attacking and trying to hold parts of sovereign nations.
Probably realising the gravity of the danger that these recent developments are posing to our world especially considering situations in Syria, Iraq and other parts of the Arab world, President Barack Obama of the United States of America recently sought an alliance with some Arab leaders towards eliminating the emerging challenges from the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria a group that has already occupied some large territories of those beleaguered countries
President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has directed that the #Bring Back Jonathan 2015 signs and banners around Abuja which he and many Nigerians find offensive and repugnant be brought down immediately.
Boko Haram made over $70 million from ransoms collected for kidnappings between 2006 and 2011, it is believed
He said the group has teamed up with Al-Qaeda and this is evident in its operations, especially the manner its members abducted the schoolgirls in Chibok, Borno State