Somali govt claims 70 Al-Shabaab killed
More than 70 members of the Islamist armed group Al-Shabaab were killed during an army operation with local forces in Somalia, the information ministry said on Tuesday....
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US kills senior Syria Al-Qaeda affiliate member
The US military said Saturday it had killed a senior member of Al-Qaeda鈥檚 Syrian branch Hurras al-Din, which announced its dissolution last month, in an air strike in the country鈥檚 northwest.
Al-Qaeda official killed in Yemen blast
A senior member of al-Qaeda in Yemen has been killed in a bomb blast, according to a statement from the extremist group behind a string of high-profile attacks.
Damascus takeover could change Middle East
THE collapse of the Baathist government of Syria in the north of the country, as the al-Qaeda affiliate HTS (Hay鈥檃t Tahrir al-Sham or the Levant Liberation Council) advanced into Aleppo and Hama, could reconfigure the Middle East. The rapidity of the advance and the Muslim fundamentalist leadership of the fighters remind me of the fall of the government of Ashraf Ghani before the Taliban advance...
Qaeda kills 16 Yemeni fighters
A bomb attack on Friday in southern Yemen killed at least 16 pro-government fighters, a military official said, in one of the deadliest operations claimed by al-Qaeda jihadists in months.
Attacker accused of Islamist links kills two Malaysia policemen
A machete-wielding attacker suspected of ties to an Al-Qaeda linked group stormed a police station in Malaysia in a dawn raid Friday and killed...