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Morocco says breaks al Qaeda cell sending youth to Mali

Source: Asharq Alawsat, Nov 25 2012, 3:48am CST

25/11/2012 RABAT (Reuters) - Morocco said on Saturday it had broken up a militant cell that was training youths to send them to fight in Mali, which has become the focus of international concern over the spread of Al Qaeda in the ...

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Islamists kill 20 in suicide attacks in Niger

Source: Reuters Mobile  |   May 23 2013, 8:09am CDT

The various emotions and reactions of Shanthakumaran Sreesanth on and off the cricket field. Slideshow NIAMEY (Reuters) - Islamist suicide bombers struck a barracks and a French-run uranium mine in Niger on Thursday, officials said, killing 20 peopl ...

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Switching from scandals, Obama to address drones and Guantanamo

Source: Chicago Tribune  |   May 23 2013, 7:13am CDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will seek to draw attention away from a series of domestic scandals with a speech on Thursday that defends the U.S. use of drones abroad and lays out a vision for closing the mili ...

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"Since the police intervention, the cells are closed and there's no information on what happened to the injured people."


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Tunisia making progress against terror – PM

Source: News24  |   May 23 2013, 7:10am CDT

2013-05-23 14:10 Tunis - Prime Minister Ali Larayedh said on Thursday that Tunisia is making progress in its bid to dismantle "terrorist" cells despite the presence in the country of armed groups and recent clashes with Isl ...

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Analysis - Crackdown on radical Islamists tests Tunisia's stability

Source: Reuters Mobile  |   May 23 2013, 12:03am CDT

A riot police officer fires teargas during clashes with supporters of Islamist group Ansar al-Sharia at Hai al Tadamon in Tunis May 19, 2013. TUNIS (Reuters) - For the first time since the Arab Spring uprisings of 2011, relations between ma ...

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Tunisia Salafist Spokesman Released on Bail

Source: Rantburg  |   May 22 2013, 11:11pm CDT

[An Nahar] Ansar al-Sharia ...a Yemeni Islamist militia which claims it is not part of al-Qaeda, even though it works about the same and for the same ends... front man Seifeddine Rais, enjugged Please don't kill me! in the Tunisian c ...

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EU approves sending border security advisers to Libya

Source: Reuters Mobile  |   May 22 2013, 4:08pm CDT

The European flag flies outside of the La Canada shopping centre in Marbella, southern Spain January 23, 2013. BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union governments approved a mission on Wednesday to help Libya improve its border ...

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2 Moroccan men convicted of being homosexual sentence to 4 months in prison

Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune  |   May 21 2013, 12:57pm CDT

RABAT, Morocco - A Moroccan court has convicted two men of homosexuality and public indecency, and sentenced each to four months in prison, in the latest case against gays in this North African nation. Prosecutors at the Temara c ...

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Nigerian military in heavy fighting with Boko Haram militants

Source: Guardian Unlimited  |   May 21 2013, 12:23pm CDT

Nigeria's military has been involved in heavy fighting with Islamist insurgents armed with sophisticated weapons from Libya as it steps up an offensive aimed at flushing out Boko Haram from their north-eastern bases. "They have been putting up fier ...

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Tunisia teeters as it grapples with jihadists

Source: United Press International  |   May 21 2013, 12:19pm CDT

Tunisia is getting tough with hard-line Islamists as it finds itself struggling with the fallout of its groundbreaking pro-democracy uprising. TUNIS, Tunisia, May 21 (UPI) -- Tunisia, cradle of the Arab Reawakening in ...

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