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Drone Strike Kills 3 Qaeda Suspects In Yemen

A US drone strike has killed three suspected members of Al-Qaeda in Yemen's Shabwa province, a jihadist stronghold in...

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Saudi-Qatar Crisis Puts Syria Rebels In Tricky Position

A diplomatic crisis pitting Saudi Arabia against Qatar has put Syrian rebels in a difficult position, analysts say,...

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Russia ‘may Have Killed IS Head Baghdadi’

Russia's defence ministry is investigating whether one of its air strikes in Syria killed the leader of the Islamic...

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Mogadishu Restaurants Attacks Records 17 Deaths and 26 Injured

Gunmen attacked two restaurants in Somalia’s capital of Mogadishu on Wednesday night, killing at least 17 people and...

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Suicide Bomber Targets Popular Mogadishu Restaurant

Casualties were feared on Wednesday evening after a suicide car bomber targeted a popular restaurant in the Somali...

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To Europe, Whatever the Risk

Uche's real journey had yet to begin but he had already spent four days in the northern Nigerian city of Kano after...

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Bangladesh Arrests 10 Islamist Extremists As Raids Continue

Bangladesh police Monday widened a sweeping crackdown against Jamayetul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) militants,...

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Soldier, 3 Assailants Dead In Qaeda Attack On Yemen Army

A soldier was killed and two others were wounded in an Al-Qaeda attack Monday on a checkpoint in Yemen's Hadramawt...

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US Forces Conduct Strike Against Somalia’s Al-Shabaab

US forces carried out a strike in conjunction with Somali special forces Sunday against Al-Shabaab approximately 185...

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Bangladesh Arrests Alleged Senior Extremist

Bangladesh police on Sunday arrested a businessman accused of being a major figure in the Islamist group blamed for a...

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UN Peacekeeper Death Toll Rises After Mali Jihadist Attack

The death toll in a jihadist attack on UN peacekeepers in northern Mali has risen to four, the United Nations mission...

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Is Islam Responsible For Global ‘Islamist’ Terrorism?

The media have consistently, for far too long, maintained shallow, hollow and horrific reportage on the terror...

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France Faces US Reservations Over UN Backing For Sahel Force

France on Friday sought to address US reservations over its request that the United Nations offer political and...

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Al-Qaeda-Linked Group Claims Deadly UN Base Attack

A powerful Al-Qaeda-linked group on Friday claimed an attack on a United Nations camp that killed three peacekeepers in...

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Three Peacekeepers Killed In Northern Mali Attack

Three United Nations peacekeepers were killed and eight others wounded when they came under sustained attack in Kidal...

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Al-Shabab Fighters Storm Military Base In Somalia

Somalia’s militant Islamist group al-Shabab says it has carried out a major assault on a military base in the...

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When IS Group Reign Ends, Who Will Rule Syria’s Raqa?

The battle by US-backed forces to oust the Islamic State group from its Syrian bastion of Raqa will solve one problem...

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Trump Calls Qatar Emir As Efforts Build To End Crisis

President Donald Trump called Qatar's emir Wednesday and offered his services as a mediator in a damaging feud between...

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US Disputes Claim Syria Strike Killed Dozens of Civilians

The Pentagon denied Wednesday that large numbers of civilians were killed in a March strike by a Syrian mosque,...