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By James Tasamba KIGALI, Rwanda (AA): Several lives were lost in a suspected terrorist attack in a village in Burkina Faso bordering Togo, a local official said. “We deplore the loss of lives,” Sami Beranger Pooda said in a statement late Monday confirming the deaths without specifying the exact toll. However, it was reported that […]

7th Sep 2022

Yemen: Al-Qaeda attack kills 21 soldiers in Abyan

By Shukri Hussein SANA’A, Yemen (AA): At least 21 soldiers were killed in an attack by al-Qaeda terrorist group in southern Yemen on Tuesday, according to the Interior Ministry. A ministry statement said the attack targeted a security checkpoint manned by the government-aligned Security Belt Forces (SBF) in Ahwar district in Abyan province. The […]

20th Feb 2022

Mali: 40 civilians killed in northern Mali

By James Tasamba KIGALI, Rwanda (AA): About 40 civilians were killed this week when armed insurgents simultaneously attacked several villages in the northern Mali region, media reports said Friday. “Several armed men, probably from terror groups, attacked several villages in the rural commune of Tessit, in the Gao region, killing about 40 civilians,” the […]

22nd Aug 2021

Pentagon breaks with Biden, says al-Qaida still in Afghanistan

By Andy Roesgen CHICAGO, United States (AA): The Pentagon broke Friday with US President Joe Biden’s assessment that al-Qaeda is “gone” from Afghanistan after 20 years of US-led operations. “What we believe is that there isn’t a presence to merit a threat to our homeland as there was 20 years ago,” spokesman John Kirby […]

13th Jan 2021

US alleges al-Qaeda’s new ‘home base’ is Iran

By Michael Hernandez WASHINGTON (AA): Iran is now al-Qaeda’s “home base,” the US alleged Tuesday despite an often-bloody history between Tehran and the terror group. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo accused Iran’s leadership of providing “sanctuary to the terror group’s senior leaders as they plan attacks against America and our allies.” “The Iran-al-Qa’ida axis […]

15th Oct 2020

Mali observes 3-day mourning after deadly terrorist attack

By Felix Tih (AA): Mali, which is 95% Muslim, on Thursday began a three-day national mourning to pay tributes to the victims of Tuesday’s terrorist attack that killed at least 11 soldiers and 12 civilians, according to an official statement. The announcement was made by the transitional President Bah N’Daw in a statement issued after […]

7th Oct 2019

Burkina Faso: At least 23 killed in terrorist attack

By James Tasamba OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AA): At least 23 people were killed in an attack at a gold mining site in northern Burkina Faso in a latest violence by the terrorists linked to Al-Qaeda, security source said late Saturday. “Armed individuals attacked the gold mining site at Dolmane, leaving around 23 people dead,” […]

27th Aug 2019

NW Syria move does not violate any agreement, says Moscow

By Elena Teslova MOSCOW (AA): Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said the Bashar al-Assad Government’s capture of Khan Shaykhun in Syria does not violate any agreement. “Syrian armed forces, with our support, do not violate any agreement,” Lavrov told a joint news conference with his Angolan counterpart Manuel Domingos Augusto in Moscow on Monday. […]

14th Aug 2018

UN: Thousands of Daesh terrorist fighters remain in Syria, Iraq

By Umar Farooq WASHINGTON (AA): Despite their defeat, an estimated 20,000-30,000 Daesh terrorist fighters are still in Syria and Iraq, according to a UN report published Monday. The report on Daesh and Al-Qa’ida, which was presented to the Security Council, said a smaller number of Daesh fighters had made their way to Afghanistan, where […]

17th Mar 2017

Syria: US accused of air attack killing 58 civilians in Aleppo mosque

By Halit Suleyman ALEPPO, Syria (AA & The Musim News): US has been accused of an aerial attack on a mosque during prayer time in the Syrian city of Aleppo which killed 58 people late on Thursday. But a senior U.S. military official told NBC News that while there was a mosque about 50 […]

3rd Feb 2017

Yemen raid killing civilians ‘very well thought out & executed’

By Michael Hernandez WASHINGTON (AA): The Trump administration on Thursday defended a weekend raid on al-Qaeda positions in Yemen that left one Navy SEAL dead and killed an undetermined number of civilians. “This was a very, very well thought out and executed effort,” White House spokesman Sean Spicer said. The military identified the slain […]

4th Aug 2016

Libya: 18 Libyan soldiers killed in Benghazi suicide bombing

By Moataz al-Majbari BENGHAZI, (AA): The death toll from a suicide car bombing in Libya’s eastern city of Benghazi has risen to 18, a Libyan army spokesman said Wednesday. A bomber blew up his vehicle at a military checkpoint in western Benghazi late Tuesday in an attack claimed by the Al-Qaeda-linked Shura Council of […]

29th Jul 2016

Syria: Terrorist group Al-Nusra Front breaks off Al-Qa’ida ties

By Mohamad Misto ANKARA (AA): Syrian terrorist group Al-Nusra Front has terminated all ties with Al Qaeda, the group’s leader told a Qatar-based television network Thursday. In remarks made during an interview with Al Jazeera Arabic, Nusra leader Abu Muhammad al-Golani said the ties with Al-Qaeda had been dissolved and his group would now […]

23rd Jul 2016

Mali: Dozens killed in clashes between rebel groups

KIDAL, (AA): Dozens of people were killed early Friday in a violent clash between a pro-government militia group and a Tuareg separatist movement in Kidal, in northern Mali, local sources told Anadolu Agency. The clashes took place between Thursday afternoon and Friday morning between Gatia, a pro-government Tuareg and Arab militia and members of the […]

17th Jun 2016

US: New documents shed light on CIA torture

By Kasim Ileri WASHINGTON (AA): Details emerged Thursday of CIA torture techniques at overseas black site prisons, from newly declassified transcripts of detainees’ military hearings at the Guantanamo Bay Prison. “They shackle me completely, even my head; I can’t do anything,” Zayn al-Abidin Muhammed Hussein, a Saudi-born Palestinian also known as Abu Zubaida told […]

28th Apr 2016

US against sanctions for Ahrar Al-Sham, Jaysh al-Islam

By Esra Kaymak Avci WASHINGTON (AA) – The U.S. does not support placing Ahrar Al-Sham and Jaysh al-Islam on a U.N. sanction’s list, the State Department said Wednesday. “We don’t want to see that happen,” said spokesman Mark Toner said. “We think that that would have damaging consequences to the cessation.” Sanctioning the two […]

21st Feb 2016

Yemen: Al-Qa’ida captures coastal town in S Yemen

By Shukri Hussein ADEN, (AA): Al-Qaeda terrorists on Saturday morning wrested control of Ahwar, a coastal town in Yemen’s southern Abyan province, according to local witnesses. Speaking to Anadolu Agency, one Ahwar resident said that Al-Qaeda elements had “deployed at the town’s entrances and in the streets, while posting fighters on the rooftops of […]

8th Nov 2015

Philippines: Wanted Abu Sayyaf leader killed in clash

By Hader Glang ZAMBOANGA CITY, (AA): A notorious leader of an al-Qaeda-linked militant group was killed alongside a follower in a firefight in the Philippines’ Muslim south that left three soldiers wounded, according to the military Sunday. The commander of Basilan province’s Joint Task Group said in a press release that the Abu Sayyaf’s […]

26th Oct 2015

Philippines: 3 Abu Sayyaf gunmen dead in shootout

By Hader Glang ZAMBOANGA, (AA): Philippine government forces claim to have killed three gunmen belonging to an al-Qaeda-linked group in the troubled southern island province of Basilan. In a statement Sunday, the military said Joint Task Group Basilan encountered a group of 50 Abu Sayyaf militants at around 11.30 a.m. (0330GMT) in the jungle-surrounded village of Baiwas. Military spokesperson Capt. Roy Vincent Trinidad said the […]

26th Sep 2015

Syria: Trained Syrian rebels turns over arms to al-Nusrah Front

WASHINGTON (AA): A group of U.S.-trained Syrian fighters surrendered ammunition and vehicles to an al-Qaeda affiliate in exchange for safe re-entry to Syria, the U.S. military said Friday. “Today the NSF [New Syrian Front] unit contacted coalition representatives and informed us that on Sept. 21-22 they gave six pick-up trucks and a portion of their […]

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