Tag: Al Qaeda
Boko Haram: Between Amnesty And Dialogue For The Ghosts Of Terror
By Theophilus Ilevbare The call by the Sultan of Sokoto and National leader of the Muslim faith, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar…
Saudi-born Nigerian charged with terrorism in US
An alleged veteran of al-Qaeda’s fight against US soldiers in Afghanistan who went on to plot a bomb attack on…
Al-Qaeda Bloodthirsty, Kills French Hostage
The French government was scrambling Wednesday to verify a claim by Al-Qaeda’s north African branch that it has executed a…
KANO BOMB BLASTS: Death Toll Rises
The death toll arising from a series of blasts targeting buses full of passengers in Nigeria’s second largest city of…
Chad says it killed one-eyed Jihadist Belmokhtar
The Chadian army claimed that its troops in northern Mali on Saturday killed Mokhtar Belmokhtar, the one-eyed jihadist commander who…
3rd generation of Al Qaeda causing havoc in Nigeria
Retired CIA veteran Bruce Riedel, a counterterrorism expert at the Brookings Institution think tank who has advised four US presidents,…
Algeria’s hostage crisis ends in massacre
IN AMENAS, Algeria (AFP) – A dramatic four-day hostage crisis at an Algerian gas plant ended in a bloodbath Saturday…
50 killed in Algeria’s hostage crisis
Algerian troops Thursday launched strikes on a gas complex where Islamists are holding dozens of foreigners killing nearly 50 people,…
Mali war: Islamists take western hostages in Algeria
Algeria, which has opened its airspace to French warplanes hitting Islamists in northern Mali, was targeted Wednesday in a deadly…
Jonathan: Al-Qaeda must be flushed out of Mali
West African regional bloc ECOWAS is committed to restoring peace to Mali and ensure Al-Qaeda is pushed out of the…
Al Qaeda chief urges more protest over anti-Islam film
Al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri urged Muslims to keep up their protests against an anti-Islam film produced in the United States,…
Britain extradites radical Islamic preacher Hamza
LONDON (AFP) – Radical Islamist preacher Abu Hamza and four other terror suspects were extradited from Britain to the United…
Untold story of AbdulMutallab, the underwear bomber
7 Actions News investigator, Scott Lewis has revealed new insights about Nigeria’s failed Underwear bomber, Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab. Lewis…
Shebab, Boko Haram allies chased out of Somalia
MOGADISHU (AFP) – Boko Haram and Al-Qaeda linked Shebab rebels said on Saturday they have abandoned the southern Somali port…
$100,000 reward for killer of anti-Islam movie
A Pakistani government minister Saturday offered a $100,000 reward for the death of the maker of the anti-Islam film produced…
Al Qaeda dubs Libya attack on US a revenge
Al-Qaeda said the deadly attack on the US consulate in Benghazi in Libya was in revenge for the killing of…
2 major blows hit Somalia’s Al-Shebab
Somalia’s Islamic insurgents and affiliates of Al-Qaeda suffered two major setbacks today. In Kenya, their backer, Muslim cleric Aboud Rogo…
Saudis smash Al-Qaeda plot
Saudi authorities announced on Sunday they had foiled a “terror” plot by elements suspected of links to Al-Qaeda, mostly Yemenis,…
Nigeria: 2 men charged with Al-Qaeda links
A Nigerian court in the Federal capital of Abuja on Thursday accused two men of having links with Al-Qaeda in…
Al-Qaeda threatens ECOWAS nations
Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb has threatened to act “with firmness and determination” against anyone collaborating with a West African…
Qaeda-linked militants with Boko Haram ties
Nigeria’s Khalid al-Barnawi, labeled a “global terrorist” by the US government Thursday, is alleged to be an Al Qaeda-linked militant…
US To Label Boko Haram Kingpins As Terrorists
The government of the United States of America has concluded plans to label three kingpins of the Boko Haram sect…
Kidnapped German Engineer Killed
A German kidnapped in Nigeria in January, purportedly by Al-Qaeda’s north African branch, was killed by his captors Thursday during…
Salafists, Muslim hardliners on the rampage in Tunisia
Hardline Islamists, who have been running rampage in Tunisian towns, torching police stations and attacking bars, have sparked an outcry…
United States Foils Another Al-Qaeda ‘Underwear’ Plane Bomb Plot
The United States has foiled a plot by Al-Qaeda’s branch in Yemen to blow up a US-bound passenger jet with…
Nigeria Detains 5 With ‘Al Qaeda-Links’ Over German Kidnap
Nigerian authorities have detained five men, including a Mauritanian, believed linked to Al-Qaeda’s north African branch over the January kidnapping…
Al-Qaeda Kidnaps German In Nigeria
Al-Qaeda’s north Africa branch said Wednesday it was holding a German engineer kidnapped in Nigeria two months ago, and that…
Hostage Deaths: Abductors Claimed ransom paid
Plans to free two Western hostages were well underway and some ransom paid by their families when they were killed…
Nigeria’s Failed Hostage Rescue:Italy rage at Britain
ROME, March 9, 2012 (AFP) – Italy’s Premier Mario Monti held a security committee meeting on Friday as anger spread…
Alcohol: Al Qaeda lashes 4 Yemenis 80 times each
Al-Qaeda militants in Yemen have given four people 80 lashes each for drinking alcohol, in the presence of dozens of…