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/ 14 November 2011
France has announced that al-Qaeda released three French aid workers kidnapped in Yemen in May after negotiations with a tribal chief.
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/ 10 November 2011
Somali lawmaker Adan Bule Mohamed has been shot and killed outside his home, adding to the ceaseless violence the country has seen since 1991.
After al-Shabaab’s retreat from Mogadishu, residents displayed a new sense of security by flocking to the beaches for the first time in three years.
The US says Boko Haram could attack three luxury hotels in Abuja after a report that more than 100 people have been killed in Nigeria since Friday.
Kenya says Somali Islamist rebels have received a third planeload of armaments as its forces prepare to push forward against the militants.
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/ 31 October 2011
Somali rebels have vowed to avenge a deadly Kenyan air raid that killed at least five civilians, which Kenya insisted hit an al-Shabaab target.
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/ 30 October 2011
Conflicting reports were made after fighters from Somalia’s al-Shabaab extremist group attacked an African Union military base in Mogadishu.
As the US withdraws its remaining 39 000 troops from Iraq, the influence of its nemesis Iran in the corridors of power in Baghdad is likely to rise.
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/ 23 October 2011
Kenyan and Somali government troops have edged closer to a town in southern Somalia where al-Qaeda-inspired rebels have grouped, hoping to strike.
Civilians trapped by fighting in Mogadishu have made the most of a lull to flee, even as Kenyan forces continue their slow advance inside Somalia.
Security forces have shot dead at least 12 people protesting against the rule of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh in the capital Sana’a.
A slew of bombings targeted Iraqi police in Baghdad, including blasts by two suicide bombers, killing 25 people and wounding dozens more.
SA has bemoaned the suicide bomb attack that killed 70 people in Mogadishu, while Somalia’s Prime Minister urged aid workers not to stay away.
Yemeni President Abdullah Ali Saleh has called for early elections in his first speech since returning to Yemen.
President Barack Obama has vowed that the US will never waver in its fight against terrorism as Americans mark the 10th anniversary of 9/11 attacks.
Authorities said the Harkat-ul-Jihad Islami militant group had sent an email claiming responsibility for the blast that killed at least 10.
Nigerian authorities say the man behind the attack on UN headquarters in Abuja last week is the al-Qaeda-linked Boko Haram sect’s Mamman Nur.
Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb says it carried out a twin suicide attack on an Algerian military academy that killed 18 people.
The killing of al-Qaeda’s number two leader deprives the group of a multi-talented manager who helped it spawn offshoots around the world.
An al-Qaeda suspect plotted to poison tourists’ water supplies to avenge the killing of Osama bin Laden, a Spanish judge has said.
The death of three journalists during Nato air strikes in Libya has been pinned on al-Qaeda instigation.
Rifts between the United States and Pakistan over the Osama bin Laden killing have been mended during CIA meetings in Washington.
Osama bin Laden was so worried about al-Qaeda’s image that he proposed changing the group’s name to improve its "brand", a US official has revealed.
More than 60 al-Qaeda prisoners have escaped from a south Yemen prison, prompting civil groups to accuse the government of organising the jailbreak.
Terrorists are big fans of South African passports, because of the ease with which one can be faked or illegally obtained.
Osama bin Laden’s long-time lieutenant Ayman al-Zawahri has taken command of al-Qaeda after the killing of the group’s founder and leader.
The department of home affairs is investigating reports that the slain head of al-Qaeda in East Africa was travelling on a South African passport.
Senior al-Qaeda operative Ilyas Kashmiri, regarded as one of the most dangerous militants in the world, was killed by a US drone.
Five simultaneous suicide attacks targeted African Union bases in the Somali capital of Mogadishu, officials have said.
Far from being wishy-washy, Christians are right to be wary of any justification for violence.
A battle with militants at Pakistan’s naval aviation base erupted again after dawn on Monday, with blasts ringing out and choppers hovering overhead.
Al-Qaeda has appointed an Egyptian militant as temporary leader, al-Jazeera reported on Wednesday.