Iyad Ag Ghaly
Iyad ag Ghali was leader of Ansar al-Dine (AAD), an organization operating in Mali which cooperates closely with al-Qa’ida in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM). Ghali...
Al Mourabitoun
Islamic State and Al-Qaeda terrorist groups menace Africa
Colonel Alain Bayle, erstwhile French military attaché in London, with whom I shared a few confidences, intimated recently that it was whispered within the corridors...
Hesham Ashmawy
Hesham Ali Ashmawy Mos'ad Ibrahim is an Egyptian Islamist militant and former Egyptian Army officer who is suspected by the government of orchestrating and being...
Mohamed Ben Ahmed Mahri
Mohamed Ben Ahmed Mahri has funded terrorist armed groups through his drug trafficking, notably Al-Murabitun, which merged with other terrorist groups to form JNIM, with...
Libyan National Army hands over top wanted terrorist to Egypt
The Libyan National Army announced early on Wednesday that it handed over to the Egyptian General Intelligence Service (GIS) one of its most wanted terrorists,...
Al Mourabitoun
Al-Mourabitoun was an African militant jihadist organisation formed by a merger between Ahmed Ould Amer, a.k.a. Ahmed al-Tilemsi's Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West...
Adnan Abu Walid Al-Sahrawi
Lehbib Yumani, is an Sahrawi Islamic militant and leader of the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara (ISIS-GS). ISIS-GS emerged when al-Sahrawi and his followers...
Al-Mourabitoun commander and associates killed amidst Barkhane operation near Tabankort
On July 29, French forces of Operation Barkhane conducted a military operation in the Tilemsi Valley, specifically in the area of Ersane near Tabankort, Gao...
African terrorist groups unite and pledge allegiance to al-Qaeda
Three Al-Qaeda-affiliated jihadi groups based in Africa’s Sahel region have announced a merger, creating a unified militant base in a region threatened by instability. A...
Al-Mourabitoun is headed by infamous former al-Qaeda terrorist
A terrorist organisation with links to al-Qaeda has claimed responsibility for the attack on a luxury hotel in the Malian capital Bamako. Al-Mourabitoun, a group...