Tag Archives: Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb






Al Qaeda in Mali sought to hide foreign designs

Abdelmalek Droukdel, the emir of al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, told his fighters in northern Mali to mask their operations and involvement in the global jihad, and “pretend to be a ‘domestic’ movement” so as not to draw international attention and intervention.





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Timbuktu: al-Qaeda’s terrorist training academy in the Mali desert













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Dispatch: Inside Timbuktu, the city freed from its al-Qaeda tormentors






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‘Darker Sides’: The Vast Islamist Sanctuary of ‘Sahelistan’