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01/05/2013 - France - Mali

Suspected French jihadist arrested in Mali

A Frenchman suspected of having joined Al-Qaeda has been arrested in northern Mali.

Tunisia clamps down on Syria jihadist training camps
27/04/2013 - African news explained

Tunisia clamps down on Syria jihadist training camps

Tunisia's Interior Minister Lotfi Ben Jeddou says the authorities have dismantled jihadist training centres that were preparing insurgents to fight in Syria. He said the recruitment ...

16/04/2013 - Report: France - Belgium

French jihadist killed fighting in Syria

Belgian police carried out 46 early morning raids on radical Islamist groups early Tuesday morning in an attempt to stop the recruitment of volunteers to fight the regime of Bashar al-Assad in ...

05/04/2013 - France

Three alleged jihadis deported from Pakistan to France

French police are questioning three men deported from Pakistan, accused of going there to train to fight in Afghanistan.

31/03/2013 - Mali

Suicide bombing, jihadi attack in central Timbuktu

Fighting in the historic northern Mali town of Timbuktu this weekend left three Islamist fighters dead and five Malian troops wounded, the Malian army said Sunday.

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius with Cameroon President Paul Biya on 15 March 2013
16/03/2013 - France - Cameroon

Fabius: ‘discretion and determination’ to release kidnapped nationals

French Foreign Minister, Laurent Fabius reassured the French community in Yaoundé on Saturday that "discretion and determination" were being exercised to find the family of seven ...

11/03/2013 - France

Toulouse remembers Merah killings

France has awarded the Legion of Honour to the first victim of a series of deadly shootings by self-proclaimed jihadist Mohamed Merah in Toulouse exactly a year ago.

11/03/2013 - France - Mali

Three more weeks for French troops to secure northern Mali

The French Defence Minister, Jean-Yves Le Drian, believes it will take another three weeks for French troops to fully secure north-eastern Mali from Islamic militants, and warned there could be ...

10/03/2013 - Nigeria - France - Mali

Nigerian Islamists claim foreign hostages dead amid concern for French Sahel captives

Nigerian Islamist group Ansaru on Saturday claimed to have killed seven foreign hostages captured last month.

08/03/2013 - Mali - France

Two French Islamist fighters extradited from Mali

A French jihadi fighter was to be extradited from Mali on Friday, according to Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian who said that the man is the second Islamist to be sent to France this week.

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