Tag: jihadists

12 June 2019, 4:23 PM

An attack by Boko Haram jihadists in northern Cameroon last weekend left 37 dead, a security official in the region ...

Eid attack kills 8 Egypt police in Sinai

5 June 2019, 2:13 PM

Militants on Wednesday killed eight Egyptian policemen in an attack on a checkpoint in the restive Sinai Peninsula, the authorities ...

30 jihadists killed or captured in French-Malian raids near Burkina: French military

10 April 2019, 8:30 PM

French and Malian troops killed or captured more than 30 extremists and dismantled a jihadist training camp during a major ...

Mali soldiers, spooked by friendly fire, shoot civilians

9 April 2019, 1:46 PM

Malian soldiers shot dead at least one villager and injured others after a detonation they mistook for an attack in ...

Jihadists dominating Idlib have come under increased criticism in recent weeks after they shut down a series of universities in their stronghold.

Syria students say jihadists waging war on their future

6 March 2019, 3:50 PM

In Syria's jihadist-controlled Idlib province, Mudar Darwish and fellow medical students clutched banners and chanted against the closure of their ...

25 000 flee violence in eastern Syria: UN

by Skhangiwe Mthiyane

11 January 2019, 3:10 PM

An estimated 25 000 people have fled escalating violence over the last six months in eastern Syria, where die-hard jihadists ...

Coptic Christians, who account for around 10 percent of Egypt's population, have been hit by a string of attacks by the Islamic State group in recent years.

Egypt’s Sisi to inaugurate Coptic cathedral after bomb blast

6 January 2019, 2:27 PM

23 November 2018, 7:59 AM

Egypt's president will inaugurate the country's biggest cathedral on Coptic Christmas Eve Sunday, a day after a deadly bomb blast ...

Boko Haram kidnaps 50 loggers in Nigeria

by Bongisipho Magcaba

16 November 2018, 3:45 PM

The hostages who were mostly from a camp for people displaced by jihadist violence were on Saturday rounded up by ...

Jihadists kill 9 Syria regime fighters near Idlib: monitor

by Skhangiwe Mthiyane

13 November 2018, 6:33 AM

Jihadists on Friday killed nine Syrian regime fighters near a planned buffer zone around the country's last major rebel bastion, ...

A United Nations peacekeeper. Two Cambodians, a South African and a Zimbabwean working for an organisation subcontracted by UNMAS (the UN's mine-clearing operation) were also wounded.

Three civilians killed in attack on UN contractor in Mali

by Bongisipho Magcaba

Mali has been struggling to return to stability after Islamist extremists linked to Al-Qaeda jihadists took control of the north ...

A man holds a placard reading "Alice Nggadah must be rescued", referring to Alice Loksha Nggadah who is one of the three female health workers kidnapped on March 1 by Boko Haram jihadists, during a protest.

Boko Haram kills second kidnapped aid worker in Nigeria: Red Cross

16 October 2018, 8:54 PM

Islamic State-allied Boko Haram jihadists have killed another kidnapped female Red Cross worker in northeast Nigeria in a "despicable act ...

Turkey backed Syrian rebel-fighters patrol near the city of al-Bab, in the Aleppo province

Syria jihadists who hold key to Idlib truce

10 October 2018, 2:11 PM

26 September 2018, 7:28 AM

A buffer zone separating warring parties is taking shape around Syria's last rebel bastion Idlib but the success of the ...

It is not the first time that foreign workers have been kidnapped in Burkina Faso.

Indian, S. African among three kidnapped in Burkina Faso

by Busi Magudulela

An Indian and a South African were among three mine workers kidnapped in a northern part of Burkina Faso which ...

Egypt security forces kill 11 suspected jihadists in Sinai

10 September 2018, 1:02 PM

Egyptian security forces have killed 11 suspected jihadists in the Sinai Peninsula as they press a campaign against Islamist militants ...

Security personnel clashed with the alleged militants during an operation to comb a remote area some 400 kilometres south of Cairo.

Police raid in southern Egypt kills 5 suspected jihadists

by Busi Magudulela

28 August 2018, 9:30 AM

Egyptian police on Monday killed five suspected jihadists in a raid on their hideout in a mountain creek in southern ...

18 killed in Boko Haram attack in Chad: military source

22 July 2018, 2:58 PM

Eighteen people have been killed in an attack by suspected Boko Haram jihadists in the Lake Chad region, a Chadian ...

A handout picture released by the Egyptian Presidency on June 2, 2018 shows Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi (C-L) posing for a group picture with Parliament Speaker Ali Abdel Aal (C) during the former's swearing-in ceremony for a second four-year term in office, at parliament headquarters in the capital Cairo.

Egypt’s Sisi sworn in for second term

2 June 2018, 3:38 PM

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi vowed to tackle jihadists and revive the economy as he was sworn in Saturday for ...

Local resident Kulo Musa says that while the attackers had carried guns, they "chose to use knives" to avoid alerting soldiers manning a nearby checkpoint. Picture:REUTERS

Boko Haram kill 6 Nigerian villagers

by AFP

23 August 2017, 7:30 AM