Last Updated: Saturday, November 23, 2013, 15:31
Mauritania holds nationwide elections on Saturday overshadowed by a boycott of the "radical" opposition -- apart from an Islamist party that calls its participation a struggle against "dictatorship".
Last Updated: Saturday, November 23, 2013, 10:30
A young boy and a man were killed today as supporters and opponents of ousted Islamist president Mohamed Morsi clashed in Egypt, officials said.
Last Updated: Monday, November 18, 2013, 00:51
A French engineer abducted by Islamist militants in Nigeria has managed to escape after nearly a year in captivity, officials said.
Last Updated: Sunday, November 17, 2013, 18:13
A French man has been freed almost a year after he was kidnapped in Nigeria by Islamist militants, President Francois Hollande`s office said on Sunday.
Last Updated: Saturday, November 16, 2013, 16:29
Nigerian troops said that they had killed nine suspected members of Islamist terrorist group Boko Haram in a gunfight in the country`s northeast.
Last Updated: Saturday, November 16, 2013, 09:02
A Syrian air strike has killed a senior commander of the Islamist Liwa Al-Tawhid rebel brigade in Aleppo and wounded its chief and another leader, a watchdog said on Saturday.
Last Updated: Wednesday, November 13, 2013, 23:17
Detectives scouring Kenya`s Westgate shopping mall after September`s massacre by Islamist gunmen have completed on-site investigations, the government said on Wednesday.
Last Updated: Wednesday, November 13, 2013, 00:35
UN Security Council approved a 4,400-troop boost to the African force in Somalia, taking it to more than 22,100 troops deployed to tackle resurgent Islamist militants.
Last Updated: Thursday, October 31, 2013, 17:20
Israel`s army arrested three senior members of the Islamist Hamas movement overnight, Palestinian security sources said on Thursday, in the second such arrest operation this week.
Last Updated: Monday, October 7, 2013, 20:53
The target of the raid in Somalia by US Navy SEALs was Abdulkadir Mohamed Abdulkadir, a Kenyan of Somali origin who is a foreign fighter commander for the Islamist Shebaab group, a US official said on Monday.
Last Updated: Saturday, September 28, 2013, 15:18
Kenyans on Saturday marked a week since Islamist gunmen stormed a Nairobi mall in an attack that shocked the nation, but confusion remained over the fate of 61 people still reported missing.
Last Updated: Thursday, September 26, 2013, 22:06
The leader of the Somali Islamist militant group al Shabaab has warned that Kenya will be hit with more deadly attacks like the Nairobi mall massacre if it does not withdraw its troops from southern Somalia.
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