As Islamist militants spread south, group leaders have made clear their fight is with Mali’s government — and the Wagner ...

A brutal attack led by an al-Qaeda-affiliated group has left 22 civilians dead and 4 others injured in Burkina Faso. The ...

Bamako reportedly remained tense after authorities said they had thwarted the attack An al-Qaeda-linked group has ... Islamist insurgency that has wracked Mali for more than a decade.

But al-Qaeda's Africa branches, in Somalia and Mali, remain a potent force. Ideologically, al-Qaeda faces a familiar dilemma for the jihadist movement: to modernise and show flexibility in order ...

Mali's army on Sunday said that it had killed some 40 ‘terrorists’ and destroyed one of their bases in two operations in the ...

October 7, 2024: In neighboring Burkina Faso, al Qaeda JNIM Islamic terrorists based in Mali, attacked on the outskirts of Barsalogho town and shot dead over 500 civilians. Using Mali as a sanctuary ...

Over this month, the Group for Support of Islam and Muslims (JNIM), al Qaeda’s branch for West Africa, has publicized its da’wah (proselytizing) activities in local communities in Mali and Burkina ...

The militants from Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb and Ansar Dine exploited an ethnic Tuareg uprising in 2012 to take over cities in Mali's volatile north. The ICC in June made public an arrest ...

The Group for Support of Islam and Muslims (JNIM), al Qaeda’s branch for West Africa, has publicized its da’wah (proselytizing) activities in local communities in Mali and Burkina Faso. Photos ...

Consequently, Al Qaeda conducted summary executions and maimings in Mali — they even outlawed music — and subsequently lost any potential support they might have ever gained from the people.