Africa’s Sahel, a region running across the breadth of the continent, between the Sahara in the north and the Sudanian Savanna in the south, has become the latest battleground in the ongoing war between the Islamic State and al-Qaeda. Just like[...]
The Algerian civil war, Sahelian camps, Saudi networks; an American academic describes a Nigerian jihad with a regional focus, long before the emergence of the Islamic state in West Africa. Was Boko Haram a local and Nigerian jihadist movement? Or has[...]
Algerian army on Tuesday killed a terrorist leader in the province of Ain Defla, southwest of capital Algiers, Defense Ministry said in a statement. The killed terrorist is named Serbah Ahmed, alias "Abu Al-Abbes", 47 years old. He joined terrorist groups[...]
The ISIS terrorist group said on Tuesday that it was behind Sunday’s attack on an Algerian military barracks near the country’s border with Mali that killed one soldier. The militant group sent the bomber in a vehicle rigged with explosives, but[...]
According to a new information received from a Turkish high official, the Turkish government is secretly financing Hamas and helping it to develop its military capabilities in the Gaza strip.
A senior Algerian commander in al-Qaeda’s Uqba bin Nafi Battalion (KUBN) was killed in a joint military operation on Monday, Tunisia’s Ministry of Interior said. Murad al-Shayeb, 36, was killed by Tunisian security and military forces in Kasserine governorate near the[...]
A German-Algerian woman accused of joining Islamic State and keeping three Yazidi women as slaves in Syria has gone on trial. Proceedings against the 21-year-old, identified only as Sarah O in line with German privacy rules, opened Wednesday at the Dusseldorf[...]