Uganda probes Islamist link to bomb
ELIAS BIRYABAREMA UGANDA is investigating whether fighters allied with the militant group Islamic State (IS) had carried out a bombing
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Islamic State
‘Leader of Islamic State West Africa is dead’
FELIX ONUAH NIGERIA’S top general has announced the death of Abu Musab al-Barnawi, leader of the insurgent group Islamic State
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Suicide bomber kills scores in Afghan mosque attack
A suicide bomber attacked a mosque in Afghanistan’s northeastern Kunduz province on Friday, killing scores of worshippers in the country’s
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Nigerian military air strike hit Islamic State
THE Nigerian military has revealed that a deadly air strike hit an Islamic State camp and that casualties could not
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Congo arrests Middle Eastern national for links to Islamist militia
DEMOCRATIC Republic of Congo has arrested a Middle Eastern national for alleged ties to an Islamist militia in the east
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How big is the Islamist threat in Mozambique? And why are Rwandan troops there?
RWANDA has sent troops to Mozambique to assist the government in fighting against a four-year Islamist militant insurgency. Political scientist
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French minister in Sahel amid talk of Russian hired guns for Mali
FRANCE’S Armed Forces Minister has arrived in Niger as part of a two-day visit to allies in the Sahel region,
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After killing Sahel Islamic State leader, France to hunt other chiefs
JOHN IRISH and MICHEL ROSE FRENCH military forces have killed the leader of a West African affiliate of Islamic State
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Paris attacks trial disrupted after main defendant defies judge
TANGI SALAUN and LUCIEN LIBERT THE main suspect in the 2015 Islamist attack that killed 130 people in Paris disrupted
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U.S. bombs Islamic State after Afghan airport blast
WESTEREN forces running the Afghan airlift are bracing for more attacks after the United States launched a drone strike, apparently
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