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8 Aug
Islamic State group militants killed 10 Syrian troops and pro-government fighters in the former jihadist stronghold of Raqa province, a war monitor said Tuesday, displaying their ability to keep mounting deadly attacks.
18 Dec 2022
At least seven members of Iraq's federal police were killed Sunday during an attack near Kirkuk in the country's north, where remnants of Islamic State group jihadists are active, police and government sources told AFP.
10 Oct 2022
A drone strike in northern Syria killed a suspected member of the Islamic State group on Monday, a war monitor and an AFP correspondent said. It was not immediately clear who was behind the attack that came days after US forces said they had targeted IS officials in Syria in a series of raids. Two…
20 Jun 2022
The European Union on Monday added three Al-Qaeda-linked jihadist commanders in West Africa to its terrorist sanctions blacklist for attacks in Mali and Burkina Faso.
11 May 2022
Eight soldiers were killed on Wednesday and 13 wounded in a "terrorist attack" in northern Togo near the border with Burkina Faso, the government said, using a term typically designating jihadists.
12 Mar 2022
Saudi Arabia said Saturday it executed 81 people in one day on a variety of terrorism-related offences, exceeding the total number of executions in the kingdom in the whole of last year. All had been "found guilty of committing multiple heinous crimes", the official Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported, saying they included convicts linked to…
3 Feb 2022
The head of Islamic State group, whom the US declared dead in a special-forces raid Thursday, was nicknamed the "Destroyer" and presided over massacres of Yazidis before assuming the leadership.
23 Jan 2022
Burkina Faso's government denied that the army had seized control of the country on Sunday after exchanges of gunfire took place at multiple army barracks, including two in the capital.
3 Jan 2022
Jihadist fighters killed nine Syrian soldiers and allied militiamen in an ambush near oil installations in eastern Syria, a war monitor reported Monday.
22 Oct 2021
Eleven Nigerien security personnel died in an ambush against a regional prefect's motorcade near the country's border with Burkina Faso on Wednesday, the interior ministry said on Friday.
5 Sep 2021
Thirteen Iraqi policemen were killed in an Islamic State group attack against a checkpoint in the country's north early Sunday, security
1 Sep 2021
Suspected jihadists killed four people and burnt up to 14 vehicles of a convoy under military escort on Wednesday in Democratic Republic of Congo's northeastern Ituri province, a Western monitoring group and local sources said.
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