The al-Qaeda commander Mokhtar Belmokhtar, who shot to prominence after the bloody Algerian gas plant hostage crisis, has reportedly been killed by Chadian soldiers in Mali.
David Cameron is travelling to Algeria to step up efforts to tackle the growing terrorist threat in northern Africa after a BP oil plant was seized by Islamist militants and six British hostages died.
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Less mission creep, more mission fatigue
For all the talk of "mission creep" in north Africa and comparisons to Tony Blair, this Prime Minister does not have the stomach for foreign wars of any scale.
The name of Mokhtar Belmokhtar went global when it was associated with the Algerian hostage crisis at a remote gas plant. But just how much of a true jihadi is he?
The Foreign Office advises Britons to leave the Libyan city of Benghazi immediately because of a "specific and imminent terrorist threat".
Work continues today to identify the British victims of the Algerian siege and to repatriate their bodies as BP confirm 14 of their 18 staff are now safe.
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New footage emerges of the bloody aftermath of the hostage taking at an Algerian natural gas facility, in which nearly 40 hostages were killed. Paraic O'Brien reports.
Up to 5,300 soldiers are being made redundant from the army in the summer as part of the latest round of cuts to the armed forces, the government announces today.
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Tariq Ramadan, professor of contemporary Islamic studies at the University of Oxford and Professor Kiron Skinner of Carnegie Mellon University, discuss North African jihadism.
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North Africa: How involved is Britain?
Was the tragedy in the desert an epiphany for David Cameron? Or is this inflated rhetoric that doesn't match what is fundamentally an unchanged level of commitment?
