Tag: Islamist

A suspected member of Somali Islamist group al Shabaab detonated an explosive device that killed two people at their home in a western Kenyan...

Burkina Faso, Ghana, Ivory Coast and Togo have carried out a joint military operation to counter increased attacks by Islamist insurgent groups in parts...

French forces killed an al Qaeda leader during an operation in the Sahel region of Africa, France's armed forces minister said on Friday, vowing...

France defended the Chadian army's takeover of power on Thursday after the battlefield death of President Idriss Deby presented Paris with an uncomfortable choice...

Suspected Islamist militants riding 4x4 vehicles and armed with machine guns killed nine civilians in attacks on three villages in central Mali late on...

Assailants killed a dozen people in two overnight attacks in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the army, a witness and a local rights group...

Niger has declared three days of national mourning following the massacre of 100 civilians in two villages in the western region of the country...

Villagers in northeast Nigeria’s Borno state on Sunday buried 43 farmers killed in an attack by suspected Islamist militants while security forces searched for...

Assailants killed at least 18 people and burned down a church in a village in eastern Congo on Wednesday night, a civil rights group...

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...

An American citizen was kidnapped near the town of Birnin Konni in southern Niger in the early hours of Tuesday, three security sources and...

Sudanese security forces fired tear gas to disperse hundreds of people in demonstrations across the capital Khartoum on Wednesday, as crowds gathered to put...

Armed men freed at least 900 prisoners from a jail in Beni in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo in a coordinated attack early on...

Mali will release scores of suspected Islamist insurgents in a prisoner exchange for opposition leader Soumaila Cisse and French aid worker Sophie Petronin, two...

Islamist militants killed at least 20 people during attacks on three villages in eastern Congo, the army and a local administrator said. The Allied Democratic...

Suspected Islamist militants killed 13 people during raids on two villages in eastern Congo, the army and a village chief said, the latest in...

The suspected perpetrator of a series of car crashes on a Berlin motorway on Tuesday evening has cited Islamist motives but appears to have...

Suspected militants from Islamist group Boko Haram killed at least 16 people and wounded seven early on Sunday in a grenade attack on a...

Islamist militants in northeast Nigeria have executed four aid workers and a private security guard, according to a video seen by Reuters on Wednesday. International...

One person was killed and several others injured during largely peaceful demonstrations in Sudan on Tuesday, a government spokesman said, as tens of thousands...

French and West African troops have made gains against Islamist groups in the Sahel but the situation remains fragile with persistent attacks by the...

Somalia’s Islamist group al Shabaab said on Friday they had set up a COVID-19 treatment centre in the country, and said the disease posed...

More than 50 villagers in Mozambique’s troubled northern province were killed by Islamist insurgents after refusing recruitment to their ranks, police said. “The young men...

West African leaders pledged $1 billion to combat the spiralling threat of Islamist militancy in the region, the head of the regional ECOWAS bloc...

French forces "put out of action" some 30 Islamist militants, possibly including veteran Malian jihadist leader Amadou Koufa, during a raid in...

Islamist militants have killed hundreds of soldiers in attacks in north-eastern Nigeria in recent weeks, security and military sources say, forcing a...

Many are feared dead after an Islamist militant attack on the north-east Nigerian town Gudumbali, two residents and a vigilante said. The Nigerian...

Conflicting accounts emerged of an attack by Islamists on the Nigerian military last week, with security sources saying as many as 48...

At least 19 people were killed in an Islamist militant attack on a village in north-east Nigeria on Sunday, a survivor said. The...

Mozambique security forces identified six men regarded as ringleaders of a nascent Islamist insurgency that killed over 100 people in the north...

Algeria plans to retry an Islamist expelled by France and suspected of being a spiritual tutor to militants who carried out attacks...

France expelled an Islamist suspected of being a spiritual tutor to a killer in the attack on Charlie Hebdo newspaper as well...

Seven Islamist militants surrendered to Algerian authorities near the North African country's border with Mali, the defence ministry said. Security forces recovered...

Sub-Saharan Africa has suffered a sharp rise in the number of Islamist militant attacks with the number of incidents rising from 317...

Somali children suspected of links to the Islamist insurgency are being held in adult jails where they are vulnerable to abuse and...

A suspected Islamist militant was arrested after wounding two policemen in a knife attack near the parliament building in Tunis, Tunisia's interior...

Mali and Niger, two West African nations worst affected by jihadist violence, appealed for international funding for a regional force to counter...

Kenya will use "deadly force" against suspected Islamist militants, President Uhuru Kenyatta said as he campaigned for re-election in Lamu, a region...

Somali security forces said they killed 18 Islamist insurgents during an operation in northern Puntland, although militants deny sustaining any casualties. "We killed...

Somalia's insurgency suffered a significant split after government officials confirmed they had sent troops to repel Islamist fighters seeking to capture one...

Spanish police arrested a 32-year-old Moroccan in a dawn raid in central Madrid on Tuesday who they said was "highly radicalised" and...

Somali Islamist militants said they publicly stoned a man to death and shot another dead after both were accused of raping a...

Spanish police have arrested a Moroccan man suspected of leading an Islamist militant cell which recruited volunteers to travel to Turkey for...

Egypt executed prominent Islamist fighter  on Thursday, state media said, days after a top court rejected his final appeal and in defiance...

Two Moroccan men suspected of having links to Islamic State have been arrested in Spain and police say one of them played...

A Tunisian woman Libyan authorities said they arrested and was married to veteran Algerian militant Mokhtar Belmokhtar is not his wife, her...

A Tunisian woman Libyan authorities said they arrested and was married to veteran Algerian militant Mokhtar Belmokhtar is not his wife, her...

For centuries, Fulani cattle herders and the farmers of central Mali -- both dependent on the Niger River for precious water --...

Spanish and Moroccan police have arrested four Moroccan men suspected of links to militant Islamist activity, the Spanish Interior Ministry said on...

International war crimes judges are to rule on Tuesday in the case of a former Islamist rebel who pleaded guilty to wrecking...