pLast year, Islamist groups swept into northern Mali, imposing a harsh form of retributive justice marked by executions and amputations. Fleeing their oppressive rule and the ensuing fighting, nearly a...

Nigerian militant group Ansaru says it kidnapped seven foreign workers in a raid in the north of the country that saw a security guard killed.

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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton angrily defends her handling of the September raid on a US consulate in Libya that left four Americans dead.

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p/pThe disaster in Algeria this week began when militants seized a remote, multinational gas complex in the desert and ended when the Algerian military staged a guns-blazing "rescue" attempt. Dozens of...

Why Algeria did not want any help dealing with hostage crisis

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An Algerian military raid to free hostages at a desert gas plant is over, Algeria's state news agency says, with a number of people reported killed in the operation.

[Tunis Afrique Presse]Algiers -Islamist militants from Mali attacked a gas production field in southern Algeria on Wednesday, kidnapping at least nine foreigners, including English, Norwegian and Japan...