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Al-Qaeda

  • 2 Aug 2016
    Simon Israel

    Government’s counter-extremism strategy faces court challenge

    Muslim activist Dr Salman Butt has launched legal action against the Home Secretary after he was named in a Government press release about hate preachers.

  • 15 Dec 2015

    Saudis form Islamic alliance to combat terrorism

    Saudi Arabia is leading an alliance of Muslim countries to combat Islamic State and other terrorist organisations.

  • 13 Oct 2015

    Syria: Russian embassy shelling was ‘terrorist act’

    Russia says the shelling of its embassy in the Syrian capital was an “act of terrorism” designed to intimidate “supporters of the fight against terrorism”.

  • 18 Aug 2015

    Bangladesh blogger machete murders: Briton arrested

    A British man, Touhidur Rahman, is among three people arrested in Bangladesh for alleged involvement in the brutal murders of two secular bloggers.

  • 7 Aug 2015

    Bangladesh blogger Niloy Chatterjee hacked to death

    Bangladeshi blogger Niloy Chatterjee becomes the fourth critic of religious extremism to be killed in less than six months after being attacked with machetes.

  • 7 Jul 2015
    Simon Israel

    MI5: 7/7 ended scepticism about terrorist threat

    Ten years on, the head of MI5 says 7/7 delivered a step change “in the nation’s counter terrorism defences”.

  • 4 Jul 2015

    Islamists squeezed as Kurds and Syrian government attack

    Kurdish fighters reportedly advance to within 30 miles of the Islamic State group’s stronghold of Raqqa, while pro-Assad forces battle Sunni militants on the Lebanese border.

  • 30 Jun 2015

    How has the UK terror threat changed since 7/7?

    A major counter-terrorism exercise is taking place in the UK capital today, as we approach the 10th anniversary of the London bombings in which 52 people died. What has changed since 2005?

  • 15 Jun 2015
    Lindsey Hilsum

    ‘Marlboro Man’ Belmokhtar killed – but the jihadi threat is growing

    The killing near Benghazi of Mokhtar Belmokhtar, al-Qaeda’s top man in north Africa, is unlikely to quell the rising jihadi movement in Libya and the surrounding region.

  • 15 Jun 2015

    UK jihadist Thomas Evans ‘killed with al-Shabaab’

    British Muslim convert Thomas Evans is reported to have died fighting for the Islamist terror group al-Shabaab in Kenya.

  • 18 May 2015

    How al-Shabaab is dividing communities in northern Kenya

    Al-Shabaab militants killed 148 non-Muslim students in the northern Kenyan town of Garissa last month. Jamal Osman finds that a growing number of Christian residents are now fleeing the community.

  • 4 May 2015

    Texas Mohammed cartoon attack: home of suspect raided

    Police search the home of a suspected gunman who was shot dead in Texas after attacking a controversial event showing caricatures of the prophet Mohammed, organised by an anti-Islamic group.

  • 23 Apr 2015

    Italian and US hostage die in US strike on Al-Qaeda compound

    President Obama apologises to the families of hostages Giovanni Lo Porto and Dr Warren Weinstein, saying he takes “full responsibility” for their deaths during a US counterterrorism operation.

  • 13 Apr 2015

    Islamic State ‘withdraws from Yarmouk camp’

    An activist inside Yarmouk camp in Damascus tells Channel 4 News that Islamic State militants have largely withdrawn from the centre of the camp and handed control to other jihadis.

  • 28 Mar 2015

    Syria conflict: Islamist rebels ‘capture’ Idlib

    Syrian rebels, including the al-Qaeda linked al-Nusrah Front, claim to have seized control of Idlib – capital of Syria’s northwestern province.

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