The Daily Beast reported that the brother of a key suspect in the Sept. 11, 2012 terrorist attack in Benghazi is an al Qaeda in Iraq facilitator.
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Ansar Dine, the Movement for Tawhid and Jihad in West Africa, and al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb took control of towns in central Mali.
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Terror risk persists in North Africa, survey shows
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Ansar al-Din threat stokes Sahel fears
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Sahel security global threat, 8-14,000 Jihadists now in Mali, region, to double in year: Study
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Several jihadists recruitment cells dismantled in the Maghreb
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In Nigeria, trapped between Islamist radicals and security forces
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Mauritania braces for war next door
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Al-Qaeda group: France endangers hostages by intervening in Mali
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The Tunisian government has arrested members of a terrorist cell trained by al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM). Tunisia’s interior minister says that members of the cell were “active within” Ansar al Sharia Tunisia.
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The offices of South Africa’s MTN and India’s Airtel were the targets of today’s suicide attacks in Kano.
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Maghreb countries boost border security
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Sahel insecurity poses global threat, study finds
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Al-Qaeda-affiliated cell dismantled in Tunisia
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Racism spurs Mali terrorist defections
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Mali intervention by ECOWAS: Refugee fears
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Kidnappings Fuel Extremists in Western Africa
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Can France and Algeria find common ground on Mali?
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In northern Mali, Islamists’ attacks against civilians grow more brutal
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Plan for military intervention in Mali stalls
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Terror Fight Shifts to Africa
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Mali: Report on Situation in Areas Close to Frontline
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The US government has added the al Qaeda-linked Movement for Tawhid [Unity] and Jihad in West Africa and two of its leaders to the list of global terrorists and entities. The group has named one of its units fighting in Mali after Osama bin Laden.

Mali peace talks: Tuareg and Islamist leaders ‘chatted, cracked jokes’
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US-Approved Weapons Transfer Ended Up With Libyan Jihadis
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Gen. Carter F. Ham Details Al Qaeda Influence in Mali
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The top US military commander in Africa said AQIM is operating terrorist training camps in Mali and providing training, weapons, and financing to the al Qaeda-linked Boko Haram in Nigeria. “Al Qaeda and other organizations are strengthening their hold in northern Mali” with each passing day, he said.
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German Weapons Exports on the Rise as Merkel Doctrine Takes Hold
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AQIM’s Sahara emirate created a sixth brigade, a Tuareg-led unit called “Youssef ben Tachfine.” The new brigade is made up largely of Tuaregs and led by El Kairouani Abu Abdelhamid al-Kidali, who is a member of AQIM’s Ansar brigade under command of Abdelkrim Tarki. The Tuareg brigade will control a large area of northeastern Mali extending to the Algerian border.
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Mali Islamists whip unmarried couples in public
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