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Al-Qaida

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

  • Jason Burke

    How do we stop terrorism when its repercussions are so devastating?

    Jason Burke
  • Armed police officers stand next to a vehicle in Vienna

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

  • President Biden speaks at a podium in Israel

    Joe Biden’s warning to Israel is a nod to US failures in the ‘war on terror’

September 2023

  • A sign on a road to Gao, northern Mali, reads ‘welcome to the Islamic state of Gao’

    Mali jihadists kill dozens in twin attacks amid growing Islamist threat

    Group affiliated with al-Qaida target army base and Timbuktu river boat as violence surges in region

August 2023

  • Screengrab of Australian surgeon Ken Elliott during an onstage interview at the Keswick Christian convention in Britain

    Ken Elliott: kidnapped Australian surgeon says he had scurvy and was close to death during seven years in Africa

    The missionary, who was taken by an al-Qaida-linked group in Burkina Faso in 2016, tells how God and meditating on scripture sustained him

July 2023

  • Suella Braverman during her speech at Contest 2023 in Westminster, London

    Extremists could use AI to plan attacks, Home Office warns

    Suella Braverman says risk of serious terrorist incident in UK is increasing

June 2023

  • Emergency services at the Pearl restaurant at Lido beach, Mogadishu, Somalia, on Saturday.

    Nine people killed in attack by al-Shabaab in Somali capital Mogadishu

  • Kenan Malik

    The EU pays Africa’s brutal militias to lock up migrants. Britain wants to follow suit

    Kenan Malik

May 2023

  • A watchtower at the Guantánamo Bay base in Cuba, with a US flag sign fixed to the wall

    Guantánamo detainee accuses UK agencies of complicity in his torture

  • Dr Ken Elliott has been released seven years after he was kidnapped by al-Qaida in Burkina Faso

    Kidnapped Australian Dr Ken Elliott released by al-Qaida in Africa after seven-year fight for freedom

April 2023

  • A woman looks at a mural in Ouagadougou

    Cotton, gold or jihad: Burkina Faso’s youth caught between violence and hardship

    With one of youngest populations in the world, citizens face choice of joining armed groups or working in harsh conditions

March 2023

  • Manchester Arena incident<br>Handout file photo issued by Greater Manchester Police of the CCTV image of Salman Abedi at Victoria Station making his way to the Manchester Arena, on May 22, 2017, where he detonated his bomb. His brother Hashem Abedi is due to be sentenced for his part in the atrocity, more than three years after 22 people were murdered and hundreds of others were hurt. PA Photo. Issue date: Thursday August 20, 2020. See PA story COURTS Arena. Photo credit should read: GMP/PA Wire NOTE TO EDITORS: This handout photo may only be used in for editorial reporting purposes for the contemporaneous illustration of events, things or the people in the image or facts mentioned in the caption. Reuse of the picture may require further permission from the copyright holder.

    Britain took its eye off Libya and the Manchester bomb victims paid the price

    Fiyaz Mughal
    Salman Abedi was the product of an unstable country and a radicalised diaspora. How did MI5 not see the signs?

February 2023

  • Saif al-Adel

    Extremist thought to be in Iran is de facto new leader of al-Qaida, UN says

    Veteran Egyptian Saif al-Adel viewed as formidable threat by western officials
  • Sign outside St George's private school in Edinburgh, Scotland

    Edinburgh school accused of discrimination by ex-spy is cleared

    St George’s school asked to improve procedures after complaint from former MI6 mole within al-Qaida Aimen Dean
  • Majid Khan’s release marks the first time a ‘high-value detainee’ has been freed from Guantánamo Bay.

    Guantánamo detainee who was tortured by CIA released to Belize

    Al-Qaida courier turned informant Majid Khan, 42, to be permanently resettled after being held in US custody for nearly 20 years

December 2022

  • George W Bush and Tony Blair at a Nato summit in Istanbul in 2004

    Blair asked Bush during first phone call if he could call him by first name

  • Niger’s soldiers stand guard in the western region of the ‘three borders’ (Niger-Mali-Burkina Faso), one of zones most affected zone by jihadist attacks.

    German aid worker freed after kidnapping in Niger four years ago

November 2022

  • An ambulance carrying an unidentified wounded person drives into the Kalkaal hospital

    Somali forces free hotel from al-Shabaab militants, with at least nine dead

    Eight civilians and one soldier died in attack on Mogadishu hotel, with six Islamist terrorists also dead
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