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Al-Qaida

August 2025

  • Two men in white robes carry a black metal box, flanked by military officers

    Ancient manuscripts return to Timbuktu 13 years after jihadist takeover

    Malian city welcomes return of hundreds of crates of treasures after more than a decade stored in capital Bamako

June 2025

  • Hundreds of people are on the streets of Bamako, with smoke rising in the distance

    Who are JNIM, the jihadist ‘ghost enemy’ gaining momentum in the Sahel?

  • A United Nations patrol in Timbuktu

    Al-Qaida affiliate attacks Mali army bases as junta struggles to contain jihadist threat

April 2025

  • Extraordinary character … Blerim Skoro in The Accidental Spy

    The Accidental Spy review – remarkable story of CIA operative abandoned by his handlers

  • Warfare cast members, from left, Michael Gandolfini, Cosmo Jarvis, D'Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai, Kit Connor and Will Poulter.

    Boot camp, matching tattoos and mutual head-shaving: Kit Connor, Will Poulter and Michael Gandolfini on making Warfare

December 2024

  • Al-Shabaab insurgents holding arms.

    UN authorises new mission against al-Shabaab in Somalia

  • Abu Mohammed al-Jolani speaking in front of a crowd

    Today in Focus
    The reformed jihadi? Al-Jolani, the new most powerful man in Syria - podcast

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  • A masked opposition fighter carries a flag of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) in the courtyard of the Umayyad Mosque in the old walled city of Damascus, Syria

    Leading group of Syrian rebels could be removed from UK terror list

  • Al-Sharaa gives a speech to a crowd at the Umayyad mosque in Damascus, 8 December 2024. He stands above people including women in full black niqab veils that leave only their eyes revealed; he wears a khaki army shirt and has a thick black beard.

    Who are the main actors in the fall of the regime in Syria?

  • Will emergence of HTS in Syria raise level of global terrorism threats?

  • Islamist group that toppled Assad in Syria may be taken off UK terrorism list

  • ‘We can barely believe what’s happening’: how Syria’s frozen conflict flared into hot war that could topple Assad

November 2024

  • Al-Hassan sits in court in The Hague, 20 Nov 2024, between two guards; he wears white robes and headdress plus headphones

    Extremist Timbuktu Islamic police chief sentenced to 10 years in jail by ICC

    Al-Hassan Ag Abdoul Aziz Ag Mohamed Ag Mahmoud had been convicted of war crimes and crimes against humanity

September 2024

  • Reactions in Bamako as terrorists attempted to infiltrate the Feladie gendarmerie<br>epaselect epa11609789 Local residents react near the site of an attack in Bamako, Mali, 17 September 2024. According to the General Staff of the Armed Forces, a group of terrorists attempted to infiltrate the Feladie gendarmerie school on the outskirts of the capital early on 17 September morning. The military government of Mali has been fighting rebel groups since taking power in a coup in 2021. EPA/HADAMA DIAKITE

    Jihadist assault on Mali’s capital killed scores of people, say security sources

    Attacks in Bamako claimed by al-Qaida affiliate cast doubt on junta’s ability to tackle 12-year insurgency

August 2024

  • Fans of Taylor Swift, some holding aloft mobile phones, raise their hands in the air as they sing in the city centre

    Third teenager arrested over foiled Taylor Swift concert attack in Vienna

    Iraqi man, 18, said to be an associate of main 19-year-old suspect in terror plot that has led to cancellation of shows

July 2024

  • Palestinians examine buildings and collect remaining belongings from heavily damaged houses after Israeli attacks on Maghazi refugee camp: a man stands on the edge of a pile of rubble in a scene of devastation in which mattresses, bedding and other household items are seen.

    Gaza conflict could fuel IS and al-Qaida revival, security experts warn

    Officials and analysts warn of evidence of increased Islamic State and al-Qaida militant activity across Middle East

March 2024

  • Flags fly at half mast outside a burnt-out concert hall

    Advance of Islamic State affiliates ‘could lay ground for new wave of terrorism’

    IS has stalled in Iraq and Syria but officials believe it has been planning new attacks on west for years

October 2023

  • Guantánamo Bay tower

    Second investigation to open into role of British spies in torture of Guantánamo detainee

    Lawyers for Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri claim UK intelligence was ‘complicit in his ill-treatment’ by the US
  • Jason Burke

    double quotation markHow do we stop terrorism when its repercussions are so devastating?

    Jason Burke
    For more than 150 years hatemongers have felt powerful by making the public feel vulnerable and afraid
  • Armed police officers stand next to a vehicle in Vienna

    Al-Qaida and IS call on followers to strike Israeli, US and Jewish targets

    Israeli military offensive in Gaza offers opportunity to extremist groups in west and Middle East, experts say
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