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Deadly bombings at the hands of the Al-Qaida-affiliated Al-Shabaab group have now become tragically commonplace in Somalia.
Deadly bombings at the hands of the Al-Qaida-affiliated Al-Shabaab group have now become tragically commonplace in Somalia.
Prominent Shia cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr is among 47 executed in Saudi Arabia in just one day.
Lindsey Hilsum
The killing near Benghazi of Mokhtar Belmokhtar, al-Qaeda’s top man in north Africa, is unlikely to quell the rising jihadi movement in Libya and the surrounding region.
Lindsey Hilsum
Nothing is happening by chance. If we characterise militants from Islamic State as simply barbaric and savage we are failing to understand their strategy or the extent of the danger they pose.
The Kenya military confirms two Westgate mall attackers exclusively named by Channel 4 News were responsible for the atrocity which killed 67 people last month.
World leaders are meeting in St Petersburg just days before a crucial vote in Washington on a possible military strike against Syria. But who is calling the shots inside Damascus?
France confirms “with certainty” that the al-Qaeda-linked North African warlord Abou Zeid was killed in combat with French troops in Mali in February.
Osama bin Laden’s son-in-law and spokesman will appear in a New York court later today in a landmark prosecution on US soil.
Lindsey Hilsum
Top al-Qaeda commander Abu Zeid is reported to have been killed in Mali. If true, his death will be counted by France as one of their most important victories. But who will rise up to take his place?
International flights to Damascus are grounded as fighting intensifies in the Syrian capital.
At least 58 people die in a wave of attacks against Iraqi security forces, as insurgents gun down soldiers at an army post and bomb police recruits waiting in line to apply for jobs.
More than 90 people were killed and 222 injured when a suicide bomber attacked soldiers practising for a military parade in Sanaa, the Yemen capital.
The Italian president lashes out at the UK for not informing his country before launching the operation to rescue an Italian and British hostage, which resulted in their deaths.
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, who attempted to blow up a US airliner on Christmas day in 2009 with a device concealed in his underwear, has been given a life sentence.