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…