Seven soldiers killed in the latest attack in Burkina Faso
Seven soldiers were killed and others wounded or missing after their patrol was ambushed in northern Burkina Faso, the center of a five-year-old jihadist insurgency,...
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Two terrorists get death sentences for multiple terror attacks including 2015 Mali hotel slaughter
Two Islamic extremist terrorists were sentenced to death Wednesday in Mali for carrying out one terror attack and planning two others, including the 2015 hostage...
Suspected terrorist freed by Mali is detained in Algeria
Algeria's defence ministry said on Wednesday it had detained a suspected jihadist militant who was released this month by Mali as part of a prisoner...
The growing African terrorism threat
Maj. Gen. Dagvin Anderson, the commander of US Special Operations Command Africa, gave a sobering assessment of the increasing security threats posed by al Qaeda,...
Islamic State terrorism is growing quickly in the Sahel
The UN, EU, and individual western countries have all gone on the record in recent weeks admitting that terrorism is growing in the Sahel region,...
Suspected jihadists kill 12 soldiers in central Mali
Suspected Islamist militants killed 12 soldiers in two attacks in central Mali, the army said on Tuesday, burning down an army base and ambushing troops...
Switzerland’s foreign ministry says its national held hostage in Mali killed by Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam Muslimeen
Switzerland’s foreign ministry says a Swiss woman held hostage in Mali since 2016 has been killed by an armed group affiliated to al-Qaeda. The ministry...