Abdelmalek Droukel, leader of al-Qaeda in North Africa, has been sentenced to death in absentia by an Algerian court.
US drone attacks have killed at least 20 al-Qaeda-linked fighters including some of their leaders, say tribal sources.
Two Europeans who were held hostage in Nigeria by kidnappers claiming ties to al-Qaeda have been killed before rescuers could free them.
Troops in Nigeria have shot and killed three suspected Boko Haram members after they were allegedly caught trying to burn down a school.
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/ 14 February 2012
The Kenyan army says it has crippled Somalia’s al-Shabaab rebels four months after launching an offensive to defeat them.
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/ 13 February 2012
Al-Qaeda has voiced its support for Syria’s revolt, posing new problems for the West and Arab nations, who have called for its president to step down.
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/ 9 February 2012
US missiles have killed Pakistan’s al-Qaeda chief, one of the US’s main targets in the volatile country and wanted for several deadly attacks.
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/ 3 February 2012
In the fast-changing world of violent Sunni Muslim activism, it is reassuring to find that some things remain the same.
Jihadists blame country’s woes on secular state and say they have al-Qaeda’s support in their fight.
Al-Shabaab’s ban on one of the few agencies still operating in Somalia could deprive hundreds of thousands of people of critical food aid.
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/ 31 January 2012
An air raid by "unknown forces" has struck an al-Qaeda outpost in Yemen, killing about 15 people — including a long-hunted regional leader.
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/ 15 January 2012
Al-Qaeda militants in Yemen have seized a town close to Yemen’s capital Sana’a, seizing an ancient citadel and mosque.
Bulletins are warning of an impending assault by terrorists as Kenya’s capital increases security measures in the hope of preventing an attack.
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/ 26 December 2011
Afghanistan will accept a Taliban office in Qatar to help peace talks but no foreign power can get involved in the process without its consent.
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/ 24 December 2011
Syria’s Muslim Brotherhood has denied it was responsible for Friday’s Damascus suicide bombings that killed 44, saying the claims were fabricated.
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/ 20 December 2011
Algerian troops have crossed into Mali to help government forces combat groups affiliated to al-Qaeda, officials and witnesses have said.
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/ 15 December 2011
Former UN envoy warns of al-Qaeda’s commitment to create ‘new Somalia’ in region.
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/ 14 December 2011
The Somali Islamist militant group al-Shabaab is matching its guerrilla campaign against the Kenyan army with a peevish war of words on Twitter.
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/ 13 December 2011
Beneath the detritus and shacks constructed on al-Sadah is buried what might be one of the largest unopened mass graves in Iraq’s capital.
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/ 12 December 2011
A group identifying itself as al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb has claimed responsibility for the kidnapping of five Europeans in Mali.
The United States has vacated a Pakistani air base following a deadline given by Islamabad in the wake of anger over November’s Nato air strikes.
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/ 9 December 2011
North Africa’s al-Qaeda wing has claimed responsibility for two kidnapping incidents in Mali, one of which saw a South African taken hostage.
Masked gunmen have released a video in which they threaten to execute a British hostage kidnapped in Nigeria if their demands are not met.
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/ 4 December 2011
With almost no resistance, al-Qaeda has implanted itself in Africa’s soft tissue, choosing as its host one of the poorest nations on earth.
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/ 2 December 2011
The gathering of world leaders at the International Afghanistan Conference in Bonn on December 5 is timely.
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/ 1 December 2011
A top US military officer says a Nato attack that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers was not deliberate, while Pakistan maintains Nato forces were alerted.
Al-Shabaab rebels have banned some UN and international aid agencies from working in Somalia, seizing and looting some of their offices.
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/ 27 November 2011
The search for a South African man kidnapped in Timbuktu, who’s name the family does not want to release, is continuing.
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/ 26 November 2011
The family of the 36-year-old South African man, abducted in Mali, say they haven’t received any word from the kidnappers demanding a ransom.
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/ 26 November 2011
Gunmen in Timbuktu have kidnapped three men from South Africa, the Netherlands and Sweden and killed one German tourist after he refused to cooperate.
An "al-Qaeda sympathiser" has been arrested in New York for allegedly planning bomb attacks targeting soldiers, police cars and post offices.
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/ 14 November 2011
Witnesses have said at least three explosions hit al-Shabaab-held regions outside Mogadishu at the weekend, with some saying it was aerial attack.