Mali has been struggling to contain a growing Islamist insurgency that first emerged in the north of the country in 2012… A Colombian nun kidnapped by Islamists in Mali four years ago has been freed. Gloria Cecilia Narváez was taken hostage in 2017 while working as a missionary in Koutiala, about 400 kilometres east of … Read more
Jihadists linked to the Islamic State have killed six people in raids on herding villages in northeast Nigeria, militia and residents said Sunday. Fighters from the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) attacked Bunuri and Gaderi villages as well as a nearby herding settlement in Gubio district late Saturday, stealing livestock and killing residents, they … Read more
Jihadists in Burkina Faso have killed 35 civilians, mostly women, when they simultaneously attacked a town in the north and its military base in one of the deadliest assaults in nearly five years of jihadist violence in the West African country. Seven soldiers and 80 jihadists also died in the double attack Tuesday in Arbinda … Read more
– An Israeli air strike has killed a senior commander of the militant group Palestinian Islamic Jihad in Gaza. – Israel’s prime minister said that Abu al-Ata was a “ticking bomb” who was planning to carry out attacks on the country – The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said Abu al-Ata was “responsible for most of … Read more