Mohammad Yusufi, Boko Haram™s leader, and a number of his followers have fled their stronghold in Maiduguri as the Nigerian military seeks to “contain them once and for all.” The Nigerian military overran Yusufi™s compound and home along with the mosque the group has been using as a hideout. Upwards of 300 people, including women […]
Police have freed over 180 women and children being held by Doko Haram in Maiduguri. Heavy fighting continues in Maiduguri as security forces seek to dislodge the Islamists from their hideouts, including sect leader Mohammad Yusufi™s home and compound headquarters. Papers lifted from the bodies of killed Islamists indicate that many may originate from Chad […]
Authorities are blaming ETA, the Basque separatists in Burgos, northern Spain, for a car bomb explosion that tore through a 14-story paramilitary Civil Guard barracks, injuring 46 people. A car bomb explosion in Bilbao that killed a police officer in June was also blamed on the separatists.
Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb has killed three members of Algeria™s security forces in two separate incidents. Two security force members were ambushed in the Mascara region in northwestern Algeria on Sunday, while another was killed by a roadside bomb when his convoy passed near the city of Jijel, in northeastern Algeria.
Abdelkader Belliraj, a Moroccan-Belgian national accused of leading a terrorist network operating in Europe and Morocco, was sentenced to life in prison Tuesday for arms trafficking and money laundering. He is among 34 co-defendants sentenced from 30 years in prison to one-year suspended sentences for numerous crimes related to terrorist activities.
Latest reports indicate that police forces have besieged Islamist fighters in northern Nigeria at their stronghold in a district of Maiduguri. “President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua has ordered national security agencies to take all necessary action to contain and repel the sad and shocking attacks by extremists,” a written statement by the Nigerian government stated.
Clashes between the Nigerian Police Force and an Islamist group dubbed the “Nigerian Taliban” have left over 150 dead and hundreds arrested as violence shakes northern Nigeria.
A fourth Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb member was arrested outside Nouakchott on Saturday. He is held in connection with the murder of Christopher Leggett, an American English and computer teacher working in the capital. Four suspects have been arrested in connection to the killing since July 17th.
Algerian security forces ambushed and killed 5 suspected Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb members in the northeastern Tiz Ouzou region, 100 kilometers from Algiers. The security forces were told on a tip that AQIM members were operating in the forest highlands of Sid Ali Bounab.
The death toll in northern Nigeria continues to rise as Islamists attack police stations and neighboring buildings throughout northern Nigeria; 150, many of them Islamist fighters, have been reported killed. The violence has spread from the city of Bauchi to the cities of Wudil, Potiskum, and Maiduguri. The Islamists are reported to be targeting civilians […]
Clashes between Islamist fighters and police in Bauchi have left 39 of the fighters dead and 15 injured; 156 members were also arrested. A battle ensued when the Islamists, who aim to impose Shariah Law throughout the 12 states of predominantly Muslim northern Nigeria, assaulted a police station.
A third suspected Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb member connected with the murder of an American teacher in Nouakchott was arrested Friday in the capital. The arrest comes a week after two other suspected AQIM members were arrested with connection with the teacher™s killing in June.
Two suspected terrorists with links to Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb have been arrested in Mauritania. They are accused of plotting to attack the facilities of the National Industrial and Mining Company (SNIM), the largest mineral extracting company in Mauritania. One of the suspects arrested is a Sudanese national.
Tuareg ex-rebels, who occupy the vast expanses of the Sahara desert, have agreed to join the Mali and Algerian governments in their fight against Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb. A special unit of Taureg fighters from the Alliance for Democracy and Change (ADC) is being sent to tackle AQIM alongside government forces.
Police arrested two suspected Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb members in Nouakchott Friday evening who are thought to have been linked to the killing of an American aid worker in June. One suspect was wounded in the raid, and one detainee was reported to be wearing an explosive belt. The raid took place a […]