How family and Libya conflict radicalised Manchester Arena bomber
Parents’ extremist views and civil war in the country of their birth set Salman Abedi on path to terrorism MI5 missed ‘significant opportunity’ to prevent...
Category : Islamic State
Rights abuses often ‘tipping point’ for extremist recruitment, UN study finds
Quality education and exposure to different cultures identified as key preventive factors in African survey Human rights abuses committed by security forces and economic deprivation...
US military raid kills key Islamic State regional leader in Somalia, officials say
Bilal al-Sudani, ‘responsible for fostering the growing presence of IS in Africa’, was killed in strike approved by Joe Biden A US military raid in...
German aid worker freed after kidnapping in Niger four years ago
63-year-old Joerg Lange’s employer, humanitarian organisation Help, did not say how release secured A 63-year-old German aid worker, Joerg Lange, has been freed more than...
Third Islamic State leader killed in battle
White House welcomes news of Abu al-Hasan al-Hashimi al-Qurashi’s death The Islamic State (IS) jihadist group said its leader has been killed in battle, the...
International troops quit Mali as violence and Moscow’s influence grow
Germany latest to end peacekeeping mission as operations prove unable to stop Islamic extremist insurgency Thousands of international troops are withdrawing from Mali amid surging...
Al-Qaida chief’s killing comes as group gains ground in African conflict zones
UN says terror organisation, whose affiliate recently attacked Mali’s most important military base, ‘is once again the leader of global jihad’ It was one of...
Suspected Islamist attack frees hundreds of prisoners in Nigeria
Inmates on the run after gunmen armed with explosives attack prison near capital, Abuja Hundreds of prisoners, including scores of terrorists, were on the run...
Widow of man killed in Libya accuses South Africa of ‘silence’ in hunt for his body
The South African government sent Anton Hammerl’s passport to his widow in 2016 but has refused to say how it came to have it The...
Former Guantánamo prisoner on trial in France for extremism
Saber Lahmar has been charged with encouraging jihadists to fight for Islamic State in Iraq and Syria An Algerian preacher who spent eight years in...
