Tag: Jihadists

Burkina Faso scolds France24 for referring to jihadists as “Islamist rebels”

February 9, 2023

Burkina Faso’s media watchdog Conseil Supérieur de la Communication (CSC) has given a notice to French media France24 for unprofessionalism after the outlet allegedly reported ... Read More

Burkina Faso: search underway for 50 women abducted by jihadists in restive Sahel region

January 17, 2023

Security forces are searching for at least 50 women that were abducted by suspected Islamist extremists in Burkina Faso’s insurgency-hit northern Sahel region, a regional ... Read More

Burkina Faso: 10 Jihadists killed

February 12, 2020

At least ten Jihadists were killed Monday morning in an attack on the Tanwalbougou gendarmerie brigade in the Fada N'Gourma department, eastern Burkina Faso, according ... Read More

Mali: Gvt Ready to Dialogue with Jihadist Insurgents

February 12, 2020

Mali’s President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita on Monday said his government is prepared to talk with jihadist groups in the hope of ending insurgency in the ... Read More

Burkina Faso Votes Law Backing Vigilantes Fighting Jihadists

January 24, 2020

A majority of lawmakers in Burkina Faso voted a new law providing for extending funding and training to local vigilantes in response to the growing ... Read More

Iraqi suspected of financing terrorism arrested in Casablanca

February 6, 2019

Elements of the National brigade of the Judicial Police (BNPJ) arrested this Wednesday in Casablanca an Iraqi national suspected of fund-raising for the benefit of ... Read More

Libya: Pentagon Strikes Jihadists with Drone

March 26, 2018

The US Army launched this weekend a drone strike targeting jihadists in southern Libya. According to the US military’s Africa Command, the attack killed two ... Read More

Ceuta and Melilla’s IS Fighters exceed 200

June 5, 2017

By the end of 2016, 204 Jihadists left the Spanish-occupied cities of Ceuta and Melilla in northern Morocco to join the ranks of the Islamic ... Read More

Egypt: Army claims killing of IS senior official in Sinai

April 3, 2017

The Egyptian army Sunday announced it killed a senior member of the Islamic State group (IS) in the Sinai Peninsula last month in army bombardment. ... Read More

Moroccan IS returnees from Iraq, Syria will put country in jeopardy, Europe warns

March 30, 2017

European Intelligence agencies have warned Moroccan authorities to be on alert, pointing out that the country’s citizens fighting in the ranks of the Islamic State ... Read More