Son of French hostage abducted in Mali in 2016 denounces Paris government inaction
The son of an elderly French woman abducted in Mali has accused Paris of refusing to talk to her abductors, in comments published Sunday that were disputed by French authorities. Armed jihadis abducted Sophie Petronin on Dec. 24, 2016, in Gao, northern Mali, where she ...
Jihadis are making ground in the Syrian rebel bastion of Idlib, monitor says
Islamic jihadis inched forward in Syria's last major opposition bastion Wednesday as a deal with rival rebels saw them expand their control to three-quarters of the stronghold, a monitor said. Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, which is led by jihadis of Syria's former al-Qaida affiliate, has been ...
Rome following jihadi-held Italian hostage situation with 'utmost attention'
Rome is following the fate of an Italian hostage "with the utmost attention" after a jihadi group released a video showing him with two armed men, the foreign ministry said Wednesday. Alessandro Sandrini, a 32-year-old from near the northern city of Brescia, vanished in October ...
Loud explosions again rock northern Mali's Timbuktu near U.N. peacekeeper bases
Several loud explosions rocked the northern Mali city of Timbuktu on Sunday near military bases where one U.N peacekeeper was killed and seven French troops were wounded last weekend by Islamist militants, a resident and a U.N. source said. The U.N. source said that the ...
20 killed in brazen Boko Haram attack on Nigerian army base and villages
AFP-Jiji Boko Haram killed 20 people and wounded scores of others in coordinated attacks overnight on a military camp and villages around the flashpoint northern Nigerian city of Maiduguri, which they also tried to infiltrate across a defensive trench, officials said Monday. The brazen operation — ...
Rocket fire kills six at entrance to Damascus trade fair that opened with great fanfare
Six people were reported dead on Sunday when a rocket hit near an international trade fair in Damascus being held for the first time in five years. The Damascus International Fair was once the leading event on Syria's economic calendar but had not been held ...
Belgian-led anti-terror sweep nets arms, five suspects linked to 'Kamikaze' biker group
Belgian prosecutors said on Wednesday four people had been detained after automatic weapons were found in house searches in Brussels as part a counterterrorism investigation overnight. A fifth was detained in northern France, across the border State broadcasters said those arrested had links to a group ...
Radicals seen easily spreading jihadi word in Indonesia's poorly run prisons
Afif was an inmate in a high-security Indonesian jail when he transformed from aspiring radical Islamist to soldier for Islamic State, ready to sacrifice his life for a group based thousands of miles away in the Middle East. His journey ended with his death last ...
Five Paris attackers among over 1,200 European jihadis who've returned in past two years
More than 1,200 Europeans who joined Islamic extremists in Syria and Iraq have returned home in the past two years, an Associated Press count shows. Many have been jailed but others — absorbed into the underbelly of some of the continent's biggest cities — ...
At least 14 suspected members of a cell that recruited jihadi fighters for the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria were arrested Tuesday in a joint operation in Morocco and Spain, authorities said. Morocco's interior minister said that 13 people were arrested in raids ...
Jihadis dynamite Mali mausoleum proposed as world heritage site
Jihadis have destroyed a mausoleum in central Mali that had been submitted as a U.N. World Heritage site, leaving behind a warning that they will come after all those who don't follow their strict version of Islam, a witness said Monday. The dynamite attack on ...
Italy has expelled nine suspected jihadis since late December, and a top minister vowed on Sunday that authorities would order more expulsions in a heightened terrorism crackdown. Interior Minister Angelino Alfano told reporters that the expelled include five Tunisians and citizens from Turkey, Egypt, Morocco ...
