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The attacks were claimed by Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb.
Chinese firms have been active in the Maghreb, especially in Algeria.
That attack was claimed by Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb.
It faltered with the large influx of Muslims from the Maghreb.
Al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb has urged attacks on French private companies.
Que signifie-t-elle pour les peuples du Maghreb et du Moyen-Orient?
Much Maghreb jewelry seems to embody the human inclination toward repetition and reiteration.
What does it mean for the peoples of the Maghreb and the Middle East?
Regardless, most Maghreb objects possess a fluctuating, ornamental adroitness that challenges static visual statements.
In 1989 both countries removed visa controls as part of a new Maghreb Arab Union.
Shekau dispatched some of his followers to train with Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb.
Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb said five of its fighters conducted the attack on Jan.
Responsibility for that attack was claimed by the jihadi group Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb.
Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, which has targeted hotels in West Africa before, claimed responsibility.
West African countries are increasingly concerned about al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb and its allies.
That adroitness is how and why much of Maghreb jewelry vibrates with a spiritually suggestive demeanor.
Other offshoots include al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb in northern Africa and al Shabab in Somalia.
In Tuesday's video, al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb claims it also took her hostage in 2012.
Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, the Qaeda affiliate in North Africa, claimed responsibility for that attack.
The suspected perpetrators: Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) — how many Americans even recognize that acronym?
Responsibility for that attack was claimed by an al Qaeda affiliate, al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb.
Islamic empires once spanned the Maghreb, the land of the setting sun, as Arabs term north-western Africa.
The local al-Qaeda affiliate AQIM (al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb) claimed responsibility for the attack online.
The attack was claimed by al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), the Islamist group's North African branch.
Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, in turn, seems to be trying to keep up with the bloodshed.
Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb had long been active in the Chaambi Mountains, on the Algerian border.
Responsibility for both attacks was claimed by groups within the umbrella al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM).
The group is the Mali branch of Al Qaeda's North African affiliate, Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM).
Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb has also claimed recent attacks in the Ivory Coast, Mali and Burkina Faso.
In turn, Moroccan entrepreneurs have picked up on the craze and have brought back to the Maghreb with them.
His alleged crime was to link to a video by al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, which he criticised.
Secular Algerians often refer to sub-Saharan people as "Africans," as if the Maghreb were on a different continent.
Al Qaeda group claims responsibility Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb claimed responsibility for the assault, local media reported.
In 2002, though, Cheibani escaped from jail, and reportedly went to work for Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb.
Diaz then led the maghreb prayer in a designated gender-mixed prayer room, another first for me to witness.
"It is able to consolidate talent not just from France, but from West Africa and the Maghreb," he said.
According to the World Bank, unsustainable use of groundwater occurs across the Arabian Peninsula, the Maghreb and in Iran.
An Al-Qaeda group from the Maghreb region has claimed responsibility for the attacks, according to all four media reports.
Itissalat al-Maghreb, the country's largest telecoms company, generated 43% of its turnover last year from subsidiaries in the region.
The EBRD has also ramped up a significant amount of work in the Maghreb and should continue to do so.
Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, the terror group's North African offshoot known as AQIM, has its roots in Algeria.
Hundreds of fighters from Morocco and Maghreb neighbors Tunisia and Algeria have joined Islamist militant forces in Syria's civil war.
But in the ensuing months, Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb suffered major defeats at the hands of the French.
The loss of fighters may be behind a new pact between Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb and Al Mourabitoun.
Al Mourabitoun, a group closely linked to al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), claimed the attack on social media.
The Alliance opened schools in Turkey and across the Maghreb, and by 1900 had almost 30,000 Jews in its tutelage.
She moved to Morocco in 2011 to co-found and manage Mydeal, one of the first group buying sites in Maghreb.
The French-born children of North African immigrants are often still given names from the Maghreb, most commonly Mohamed or Karim.
On Friday night, jihadis with al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb opened fire in a hotel and restaurant frequented by foreigners.
She moved in 2011 to Morocco to co-found and manage Mydeal, one of the first group buying sites in Maghreb.
Policy circles pulsate with theories about what causes individuals and communities to support groups like Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb.
Source: FDD The report, "Terror Finance Assessment of Al Qaeda in the Maghreb," underscores the resiliency of al-Qaeda's global movement.
Some have allied with Islamist militias, including Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, which operates across Algeria, Mali, Niger and Libya.
Aigle Azur specialized in flying between France and Algeria, before pursuing an unsuccessful expansion "to the whole Maghreb," according to Djebbari.
Hundreds of fighters from Morocco and other Maghreb states - Tunisia and Algeria - have joined Islamist militant forces in Syria's civil war.
Al Mourabitoun together with close ally Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) jointly claimed it as did Mali's Massina Liberation Front.
But al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb and small bands of fighters allied to Islamic State have been active in remote parts.
The time is just after the Maghreb prayer, and the demand for bread is running high with many Cairenes hunting for dinner.
He said Ould Ahmed was a member of al Mourabitoun, a militant group allied to al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM).
But Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb and small bands of fighters allied to Islamic State have been active in remote parts.
Les Algériens laïcs désignent souvent les subsahariens avec le mot " africains ", comme si le Maghreb ne faisait pas partie du même continent.
Then came the 21st-century jihadis, Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), the latest eruption of Islamic intolerance in the region.
Specifically, they separated out immigrants from Turkey and Africa's Muslim-majority Maghreb region, which includes such countries as Morocco, Tunisia, and Algeria.
But Éric Dupond-Moretti, another one of Mr. Lamjarred's lawyers, told HuffPost Maghreb this month that the video did "not interest" him.
The region faces a range of conflicts, including some driven by groups such as Boko Haram and al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb.
Mr. Sangho said Mr. Ould Ahmed was a member of Al Mourabitoun, a militant group allied with Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb.
An affiliate of Al Qaeda, Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, claimed responsibility in a statement released after the attack on Sunday afternoon.
Here are just a couple of reasons why: In 2012, al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) took over parts of northern Mali.
In West Africa, trafficking in illegal goods is raising millions of dollars for terrorist groups such as Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb.
The issue of identity is fundamental—particularly in our era, all the more so for those from the Maghreb and for young people.
Me, I feel closer to dark and lost aesthetics, to animism, marabouts, trance music, things derived from the superstitions that penetrate Maghreb societies.
Mourabitoun, al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, and Ansar Dine have all conducted attacks in Mali this year from bases in the desert north.
In Montreal, Ftouhi lived in a modest white-brick building in a working-class neighborhood popular with North African immigrants called the Petit Maghreb.
Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) has gained a foothold in northern Mali, as well as Mauritania, Niger and Algeria to the north.
The attack, claimed by al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), would be the first by Islamist militants in the capital of Burkina Faso.
Arabiya led the local brigade of al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb and according to news reports may have recently pledged allegiance Islamic State.
Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb has had international ambitions since the central leadership of Al Qaeda bestowed member status on it in 2006.
One of the world's poorest countries, Niger is surrounded by Boko Haram, al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) and myriad Libyan militant groups.
Some of the residents have allied with Islamist militias, including Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, which operates across Algeria, Mali, Niger and Libya.
Though weakened, they might find succour via the networks of various jihadist groups, such as Ansar al-Shariah and al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb.
Mohamed also had connections to militant groups, including the National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad and al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, prosecutors said.
Arabiya led the local brigade of al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb and according to news reports may have recently pledged allegiance to Islamic State.
But money and training from Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb gave its leader, Abubakar Shekau, a substantial boost when he assumed control in 2010.
Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, which claimed responsibility, was behind a similar assault on a hotel in Bamako, the capital of Mali, last month.
Mohamed also had connections to militant groups including the National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad and al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, prosecutors said.
Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, Al Qaeda's North Africa affiliate, claimed responsibility soon after the attack on In Salah, Algeria's third-largest gas field.
Last November, militants from al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb attacked a hotel popular with foreigners in Mali's capital, taking 170 hostage and killing 20.
Yet the collapse of political order throughout much of the Maghreb has reminded millions of Africans that the Middle Sea isn't so wide after all.
Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb has pushed south from its base in Algeria, into Mali over the past decade, and then to Burkina Faso.
As in other countries across the Maghreb and Middle East, polarization between Islamists and secularists has been a source of tension for years in Tunisia.
Conversely, al-Shabaab in Somalia, al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), and al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) demonstrate the strength of decentralization.
Mohamed also had connections to other militant groups, including the National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad and al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, prosecutors said.
Beatrice Stockly, who'd been kidnapped by Islamist militants once before in 2012, appeared Tuesday in a new video released by al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb.
Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb -- the terror group's local affiliate -- operates along the border between Mali and Niger despite a French-led military counterterrorism operation.
These celebrations often feature fantasia, a traditional performance in the Maghreb where synchronized cavaliers charge in a straight line and simultaneously fire shots in the air.
The north came under rebel control while Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb capitalized on the subsequent power vacuum and took over Timbuktu for a time.
Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb are known to be in Mali and operate in the region, as is Boko Haram, which is based in Nigeria.
U.S. Africa Command (Africom) said Thursday's attack was its third since March on the militant group's North African branch - al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM).
It and much Maghreb jewelry, laden with private and community conjuration, display a meaningful artistic code and spiritual language for those who understand its ocular tongue.
Yet despite this long operation, groups such as al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb seem able to mount new attacks that are planned and conducted across borders.
Al Mourabitoun and Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb claimed responsibility for all the attacks, but Mr. Sangho linked Mr. Ould Ahmed only to attacks inside Mali.
It is a favorite for Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, which has a significant financial endowment and sophisticated organization — and a new base in Burkina Faso.
Just last week, gunmen affiliated with al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb opened fire on a beach in the Ivory Coast, killing 14 civilians and two soldiers.
Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) claimed responsibility for attacks on a restaurant and hotel in Ouagadougou in January 2016 in which 30 people were killed.
Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb claimed a rocket attack on Friday on a southern Algerian gas plant operated by BP, Statoil and state energy firm Sonatrach.
The North African affiliate of Al Qaeda, Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, claimed responsibility for the attack, one in a series to hit West African capitals.
In March, the extremist groups Ansar Dine, Al-Mourabitoun and Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb declared that they had merged into Nusrat al-Islam wal Muslimeen.
Five of the Americans are being held by the Taliban Haqqani group, and one is held by al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, or AQIM, in North Africa.
Dozens of people were killed in a November raid on Bamako's Radisson Blu hotel claimed by al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), the group's North African branch.
He warned that threats on social media from Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, the most prominent jihadist group in the region, proposed taking advantage of the unrest.
They were taken to a remote location in the Sahara Desert by members of al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), the group's largest affiliate in North Africa.
Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) claimed responsibility for an attack on a restaurant and hotel in Ouagadougou in January 2016 in which 30 people were killed.
Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), a jihadist group with ties to al-Qaeda, claimed responsibility for the attack which killed 14 tourists and two security officials.
They included the Tuareg separatists of the National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad and an array of jihadist groups, Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb and others.
" Ihsane El Kadi, the editor of an online business newspaper, Maghreb Emergent, who met Mr. Tamalt several times, said he had been "obsessed with writing against the regime.
Heidi Berg, the command's director of intelligence, said in an interview, referring to the Islamic State and Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, which is active in Libya.
These movements have merged into al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) and Islamic State in the Greater Sahara (ISGS), offshoots of terrorist entities that require no introduction.
Through the deployment of bounteous ornament and repeating linear motifs, Maghreb jewelry expresses the pulsations and throbs of our human heartbeats and repetitious breaths, of our copulating rhythms.
Wearable Treasures: Jewelry and Ornaments of the Maghreb continues at the Institut du Monde Arabe (1 Rue des Fossés Saint-Bernard, 5th Arrondissement, Paris) through January 8, 2017.
Two U.S. servicemen were also injured in what U.S. officials described as a likely ambush by al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, the terror group's North African affiliate.
M'smen, or rghaif as it's called in the north of Morocco, have outpaced pigeon tagines and chicken liver sandwiches to become one of my favorite parts of Maghreb cuisine.
Some attacks, such as the one on Cappuccino, have been claimed by al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, a jihadist group that operates across large parts of the Sahel.
In recent years, the mountain range separating Tunisia from Algeria has played host to terror cells, including those from Ansar Al Sharia and Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb.
However, a senior figure from Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) was quoted on Saturday by Mauritania's Alakhbar news agency as saying that Belmokhtar had no Tunisian wife.
However, residents have in recent weeks voiced concern that militants from Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb known to operate in remote areas near Timbuktu are infiltrating the city.
On Monday, Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb said it had attacked the resort area over the weekend in revenge because Ivory Coast had handed over prisoners to Mali.
Al Mourabitoun, which recently pledged allegiance to al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), claimed responsibility for an attack in January on a hotel in Burkina Faso's capital Ouagadougou.
Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb and its affiliates also claimed responsibility for high profile attacks in Mali and Ivory Coast in November 2015 and March this year respectively.
Thus, U.S. forces remain in Africa training, equipping, and advising partners in the fights against Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, Boko Haram, and Al Shabaab on policy autopilot.
The instability created by the coup helped solidify control of Mali's north by an Islamist group called Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, which aligned with armed Tuareg rebels.
Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads PARIS — Wearable Treasures: Jewelry and Ornaments of the Maghreb is a pointed consideration of the psychic powers interlaced throughout North African women's jewelry.
The raid in Grand Bassam claimed by Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb was the first of its kind in Ivory Coast but the third in the region since November.
In the summer of 2007, bin Laden received a detailed report from his North African affiliate, al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), detailing its cash flow and personnel issues.
Al Qaeda offshoot was behind other hotel attacks Sunday's violence was the third major attack on hotels in West Africa claimed by Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb since November.
Almost four years ago, the group, known as Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, had reached its zenith, ruling over a remote stretch of northern Mali the size of Texas.
Mokhtar Belmokhtar group Al Mourabitoun claimed responsibility for the attack, saying on Twitter that it carried out the attack "with the participation" of al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM).
"The group that took the couple is AQIM," she said, referring to Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, or the Qaeda branch active in parts of North and West Africa.
The mountains around Tizi Ouzou, 60 miles (100 km) east of Algiers, were formerly a stronghold of Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb and other Islamists during the 1990s war.
The ornamental designs engraved into Maghreb jewelry often evoke the natural environment, suggesting interwoven flowers, vines, animal tracks, the lapping of sea waves, or the rippling of fields of grain.
Between 2116 and 2016, the two terror groups racked up more than 47,000 fatalities while ISIS, al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb, and other al-Qaida linked groups totaled 9,236.
The attack occurred in a parking lot outside the mosque, during Maghreb prayers, when the bomber pretended to break the Ramadan fast with a group of security personnel, al Arabiya reported.
Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb has claimed several attacks across north and west Africa recently, including an assault on a resort in Ivory Coast last week that killed 18 people.
Politically, it is easier for Morocco to cultivate allies across the Sahara than in its own neighbourhood; regional integration in the Maghreb is hampered by a long-running rivalry with Algeria.
The raid in Grand Bassam — claimed by al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) — was the first of its kind in Ivory Coast, but the third in the region since November.
US and UK intelligence services, along with Africa Command, are looking at the possibility Abedi could have met with ISIS members or operatives from al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM).
Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb has maintained a presence in the Mali-Niger border area, despite a multi-year French-led military counterterrorism effort, Operation Barkhane, which began in 2014.
Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb -- the terror group's local affiliate -- operates along the border between Mali and Niger, despite a French-led military counterterrorism operation that started three years ago.
Such an area of operations for the drones would allow the military to target fighters affiliated with Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, Boko Haram and the Islamic State, officials said.
And the Trump administration wants European allies, particularly France, to help more in the battle against extremist Islamist organizations like Boko Haram, the Islamic State and Al Qaeda in the Maghreb.
The Islamic State is recruiting foreign fighters into southern Libya and is most likely relying on the same havens used by Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, according to the analysis.
The assault, claimed by al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), began at 8:30pm local time on Friday, when the area around the Splendid Hotel is typically packed with crowds.
The assault, claimed by al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), began at 13:30pm local time on Friday, when the area around the Splendid Hotel is typically packed with crowds.
Nasser Weddady, a Mauretanian-American democracy advocate and prolific writer on the Maghreb, foresees fresh scratchiness between Morocco, which has a strong partnership with Saudi Arabia, and its pro-Iranian neighbour Algeria.
"The terrorist organization Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) has kidnapped Europeans in the region and continues to threaten to kidnap Westerners, including US citizens, in Niger," the State Department warns.
"The flows arriving from Maghreb countries to Spain are very likely to increase (in 2018)," Leggeri said, adding that speed boats, also related to drug trafficking, were being used to move migrants.
Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb and its affiliates remain active in Mali, and they have sponsored a new group, the Massina Liberation Front, which has emerged in the past few months.
German officials aim to strike deals with countries in the Maghreb and Asia to make it easier to return failed asylum-seekers, and are prepared to use development aid as a weapon.
This year has already seen al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), Al-Shabaab and the Isis-aligned Boko Haram, launch a number of mass casualty attacks within their expanding operational spheres.
Her work has been published in Jadaliyya, where she serves as a co-editor of the Maghreb page, the National, Foreign Affairs, Lawfare blog, and the Social Movement Studies journal, among others.
OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) - Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) on Monday identified three fighters it says were responsible for attacks in Burkina Faso's capital Ouagadougou over the weekend that killed 29 people.
Here the Maghreb, the desert, the Sahel, the forest, the Savanna and grasslands, and the mountains and high fields, are the defining features of how different architectures throughout Africa can be witnessed.
Boko Haram, Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, and other terrorist groups are leading insurgencies in the countries surrounding Niger, and suspected jihadis had recently killed twenty-two Nigérien soldiers near Agadez.
It has been alleged that much of the profits of the trade are being reaped by jihadist militant groups in north west Africa, such as al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM).
Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, the group's North African affiliate, has claimed responsibility for three attacks in Mali, Burkina Faso and Ivory Coast that have killed dozens in the past five months.
Gunmen barged in, shot at 'anything that moved' Al Mourabitoun took responsibility for the attack, along with the group al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, Mauritanian news agency Alakhbar reported at the time.
ALGIERS (Reuters) - An Algerian protest leader has rejected the army's attempt to have President Abdelaziz Bouteflika declared unfit, saying the people wanted a national government of consensus, the Huffpost Maghreb said on Tuesday.
Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, the group's North Africa branch, is still active in Algeria, but small groups of militants loyal to Islamic State have also been carrying out more recent attacks.
Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb immediately claimed credit for the assault that had similarities to a November hotel attack in nearby Mali that left 19873 dead, reported a Mauritania-based news agency.
The mountains around Tizi Ouzou, 60 miles (100 km) east of Algiers, were formerly a stronghold for commanders of Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb and previous Islamist militant groups during the 1990s.
Besides ISIS, foreign fighters in Libya are also joining al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, which uses the country as a sanctuary and for training and buying arms, Ban wrote in the report.
French troops stepped in to help Burkina Faso during an attack by militants from al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb on a hotel in its capital, Ouagadougou, last month that killed 30 people.
The Islamic State is recruiting foreign fighters into southern Libya and is most likely relying on the same havens used by the group Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, according to the analysis.
The militant had been evading Algerian troops patrolling on Wednesday night around Maatkas near Tizi Ouzou in the mountainous region in what was once the stronghold of Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb.
In a statement released by Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) translated by the SITE Intelligence Group, the militant group said the attack was carried out by its close ally al Mourabitoun.
The oscillating visual language of Maghreb jewelry usually hovers between abstract geometry and modes of repetitive graphic representation, done with such delicate precision that it may rise to the province of luxurious value.
Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, the group's North Africa chapter, issued a statement saying its al-Murabitoon battalion engaged in a clash with "Crusader occupation forces," according to the SITE Intelligence Group.
A terrorist attack unfolding in the West African country of Burkina Faso was claimed by Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, in coordination with a group led by the itinerant Algerian militant Mokhtar Belmokhtar.
Related: Witness Describes 'Complete Bloodbath' as Security Forces Retake Burkina Faso Hotel Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, a Salafi-jihadist militant group not aligned with the Islamic State, claimed responsibility for the killings.
From the Maghreb to the Persian Gulf, it turned out that the terrible men who ruled the countries of the Arab world had destroyed almost everything that might hold their societies together without them.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility but Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) is active in desert areas north of the city and has a history of seizing foreigners and demanding ransoms.
Readers learn the difference between "refix" and "remix" and the secret to Cher's inescapable hit "Believe," while glimpsing the more esoteric (and decidedly male-dominated) worlds of international D.J.-ing and Maghreb pop music.
Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb last week claimed a rocket attack on an Algerian gas plant, operated by BP and Statoil with state-owned Sonatrach, though it caused no casualties or notable damage.
Just last week a secretly planned and organized restarting of the legendary Festival In The Desert was cancelled at the last minute because of resurgence of violence by Al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb.
Al-Qaeda confirmed on Thursday that a U.S.-led coalition drone strike had killed senior leader Abu al-Khayr al-Masri, in a joint statement issued by the militant group's Maghreb and Arabian Peninsula branches.
In January 2016, al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), known as one of the terror group's most dangerous regional offshoots, carried out attacks on a luxury hotel in Ouagadougou that left 30 people dead.
Most will likely join the Yemen-based affiliate known as al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), as well as the West-African counterpart called al Qaeda in the Lands of the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM).
DAKAR (Reuters) - Two high-profile strikes in West Africa since November by al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) could further strengthen the Islamist militant group, a U.S. commander for North and West Africa said.
In March, further south, fighters from al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb - the group's North African branch - shot swimmers and sunbathers before storming hotels in the Ivory Coast town of Grand Bassam, killing 19 people.
The group, which appears to be the latest franchise of Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb and is often referred to as the Macina Liberation Front, has attacked military posts and executed mayors and councilmen.
ALGIERS, March 26 (Reuters) - An Algerian protest leader has rejected the army's attempt to have President Abdelaziz Bouteflika declared unfit, saying the people wanted a national government of consensus, the Huffpost Maghreb said on Tuesday.
Most Maghreb jewelry, by suggestively emulating nature's cycles and rhythmic movements, propounds something of the repetitious cadences observed in our own intertwining movements when we engage in the pleasurable activities of music, dance, and libidinousness.
A hardcore of militants that stayed in the mountains after rejecting the peace accord belong to both Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) and the local branch of Islamic State known as Jund Al Khilafa.
Even though the jihadist group's Saharan wing, al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), has made clear Senegal is in its sights because of its close ties to France, security was noticeable largely by its absence.
The plan suggested that al Qaeda's North African affiliate, Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), would promise "not to carry out any military activity in Mauritania", initially for a year, with the possibility of renewal.
In recent years, the US military has increasingly turned to private contractors to provide aerial surveillance in Africa, where it is battling terrorist groups including Boko Haram, al-Shabaab, and al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb.
The Ouagadougou assault, claimed by al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), marked an expansion of operations for Islamist militants who are stepping up their activities, echoing the growth of Islamic State in the Middle East.
Attacks are rare in Algeria since the end of the country's 1990s civil war with Islamist militants, but al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb and small brigades allied to Islamic State are active in remote areas.
In Africa, the Trump administration wants European allies, particularly the French, to pick up a bigger share of the battle against extremist Islamist organizations like the Islamic State, Al Qaeda in the Maghreb and Boko Haram.
"A gang of Maghreb worms," said Georgia Meloni, head of the rightist Brothers of Italy party, which is expected to be allied with the Northern League and Silvio Berlusconi's Forza Italia (Go Italy!) party at the election.
"With this bold step toward a clean energy future, Morocco is pioneering a greener development and developing a cutting edge solar technology," said Marie Francoise Marie-Nelly, World Bank Country Director for the Maghreb in a statement.
But Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, and its affiliates, and fighters allied with Islamic State, are active in remote pockets of the country, mainly in the desert south and the mountains east of the capital Algiers.
Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) said last week it had kidnapped the couple and would release the woman unconditionally due to public pressure and guidance from al Qaeda leaders not to involve women in war.
About 120,000 people in the Alpes-Maritimes are from the Maghreb — including Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco — and while the majority are most likely Muslims, some are Jews and Christians, according to rough estimates by various local associations.
The five Green Berets were attacked while on a routine patrol in an area known to have a presence of insurgents, including from al Qaeda in Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) and Islamic State, a U.S. official told Reuters.
The raid on Grand Bassam, 40 km (25 miles) from the commercial capital, Abidjan, by al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), the jihadist group's North African affiliate, was the furthest yet from its traditional desert base.
He joined Ansar Dine, the Islamist group allied with the North African affiliate of Al Qaeda known as Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, as the groups overran Timbuktu and other places in northern Mali in 2012.
The attack took place 120 miles north of Niamey, the capital of Niger, near the border with Mali, where militants with Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, an affiliate of Al Qaeda, have conducted cross-border raids.
The military's Africa Command said in a statement that the attack killed two militants, one of whom was identified as Musa Abu Dawud, a high-ranking official in Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, known as AQIM.
Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) has claimed responsibility for an attack on three Ivory Coast resorts on Sunday that at least killed 16 people on Sunday, according to a group that monitors violent Islamist extremists.
Musa Abu Dawud, a high-ranking al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) official, was one of two militants killed in the precision strike near Ubari in southwestern Libya, Africa Command (Africom) said in a statement Wednesday.
The variety of forms and designs that the jewelry utilizes in creating rich streams of visual inflection requires acute attention, reflecting as it does the diversity of peoples and identities of the regions that constitute the Maghreb.
While the hacker would not reveal their identity or location, they did reveal that Team System DZ was a network of different hacking groups based in Maghreb, a region that includes Tunisia, Algeria, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia.
Al-Mahdi — an ethnic Tuareg who prosecutors say belonged to the Ansar Dine militant group, an ally of Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb — is the first person to be charged with destroying cultural artifacts by the court.
"If the Islamist electoral base takes to the streets to campaign for their candidate, the country could return partly to the 2012 and 2013 climate," journalist Zied Krichen wrote in the Maghreb newspaper, predicting secularist protests in response.
"Nevertheless these attacks are contributing to a subjective sense of threat, as is the rising pressure from migration and the high crime rate among migrants from the Maghreb," he said, requesting anonymity due to concerns about his safety.
Mali is facing a growing threat from Islamist militant groups including al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb that have staged a series of high profile raids in recent months as numerous attacks on army and United Nations personnel.
The statement did not link the militants with any group, but al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb and small pockets of Islamic State-affiliated fighters operate in some parts of Algeria, an OPEC producer of oil and gas.
King Mohammed VI of Morocco ordered the Interior Ministry to conduct "a careful and thorough investigation," and to bring charges against anyone who had broken the law, the state-run Maghreb Arabe Presse news agency reported on Sunday.
Two high-profile attacks on luxury hotels in the Malian capital Bamako and Ouagadougou, the capital of neighboring Burkina Faso, since late last year have exposed the growing capacity of groups like al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM).
Within Libya, officials say fugitive fighters from Sirte probably fled south, potentially reinforcing links between Islamic State and militant groups present in the Sahel, including Nigeria's Boko Haram, Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, Al Mourabitoun and Ansar Eddine.
Violence and attacks in Algeria are rarer, though al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb and Islamic State affiliates are still active in pockets of the country especially in the remote south and the mountains to the east of Algiers.
Despite some successes against Boko Haram, Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, and Al Shabaab, regional governments have not been able to consolidate security gains or use the ebbs in violence to build broader political legitimacy and institutional capacity.
On the other side of the African continent, in Mali and the surrounding Sahel zone, al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) recently concluded a merger with several other factions, creating a multiethnic jihadi conglomerate with allegiance to al-Qaeda.
The International Criminal Court is charging a militant linked to al-Qaeda in the Maghreb (AQIM) with gender-based persecution, which if upheld will be the first time that the court considers persecution on the basis of gender as a crime.
Attacks in the North African country are rarer since it ended its civil war, but al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb and fighters allied with Islamic State are still active, mostly in the remote south and mountains east of Algiers.
In the last few years, Aziz's government has used a hard hand to fight terrorists from al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb and ISIS, but has also been accused of torturing prisoners and going after anti-slavery activists and bloggers.
In one instance, two of the longest-standing North African groups, Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb and Al Mourabitoun, after a long publicized split, announced that they had reunited and that the Bamako hotel attack was their first joint venture.
Al Qaeda group claims responsibility The attack was executed by the Islamist militant group Al-Mourabitoun group, led by veteran al Qaeda figure Mokhtar Belmokhtar, al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb said, according to the Mauritania-based Al Akhbar news agency.
High-end hotels in major cities across the region have been quick to react in the wake of the violence, which diplomats and analysts warn likely marks a new strategy by al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb and its allies.
Al Qaeda has five affiliates: Jabhat al-Nusrah in Syria; Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula in Yemen; Al Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent in South Asia; Al Shabaab in Somalia; and Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb in North Africa.
The combination of poverty, increased drought and shrinking water resources, and a lack of work is leaving people prey to recruitment by militant groups such as Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), Boko Haram and Islamic State, Skretteberg said.
Three Islamist groups including al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb claimed responsibility for that attack, the most prominent by militants who are based in the north of the country and have staged a series of attacks over the last year.
In the Lake Chad area, which includes countries like Nigeria, Niger, Chad and Cameroon, American Special Operations forces are training and advising African militaries in the fight against Boko Haram, Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb and now the Islamic State.
This ethnic label applied first to persons from the Roman region of North Africa referred to as Mauretania in the ancient Maghreb, and then to any North African living beyond the Roman frontiers — from modern-day Libya to the Atlantic Ocean.
Films from Algeria, one of several Arab countries in the Maghreb with a strong cinema, have been nominated a few times to the best foreign language category at the Oscars since the 1960s (and one of them, "Z," won in 1970).
DAKAR (Reuters) - Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) released a video of a Swiss nun who had been kidnapped in northern Mali nearly three weeks ago in the first claim of responsibility for the hostage-taking, according to SITE Intelligence Group.
Maiga said three groups staged the raid: Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb attacked from the north, the Macina Liberation Front linked to Ansar Dine waited outside the town to ambush military reinforcements and an ethnic Peul group attacked from the southeast.
At least 20 people died and others were taken hostage when Islamist gunmen stormed a hotel in the capital city of Burkina Faso on Friday, a hospital director said, an attack for which al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) claimed responsibility.
Its successors, such as al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) now have influenced a network of groups across the Sahel in Africa, the band of desert and bush that forms the border between North Africa and Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso and Chad.
That changed in January last year when militants loyal to al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) stormed the packed Cappuccino restaurant and the high-end Splendid Hotel in downtown Ouagadougou in a raid that left 30 people dead and dozens more wounded.
According to a document outlining al Qaeda's 2010 discussions about the peace plan, al Qaeda's North African affiliate - known as Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM)-would commit itself "not to carry out any military activity in Mauritania" for a year.
In a statement, the military's Africa Command said the strike had targeted militants with Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, an affiliate also known as AQIM, and had been carried out in coordination with the United Nations-backed unity government in Tripoli.
The team of Marines was on a three-day mission with Tunisian forces when it got into a "fierce fight against members of Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb," according to one of the award citations for the Marines, who were not identified.
That assessment has come under close scrutiny because that border region has been recently destabilized by cross-border jihadist attacks on the Nigerien Army and refugee camps by fighters from Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, the Qaeda branch in North Africa.
Jama'a Nusrat ul-Islam wa al-Muslimin (JNIM) - an umbrella group for al Qaeda-linked militants in West Africa and the Maghreb - said it had not intended to attack the bus and offered its condolences and sympathy to the relatives of those killed.
But of greater threat to Tunisia are those in Libya affiliated with Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, which is active in a half-dozen countries across North Africa and vows to bring Islamic rule to Tunisia and all of North Africa.
French Prime Minister Manuel Valls, during a visit to the region last month, promised to boost assistance to the Sahel countries in the wake of dramatic attacks on hotels in Burkina Faso and Mali claimed by al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM).
Critics of American strategy in Africa worry that the U.S. is relying too heavily on corruptible military partners in the fight against radical Islamist groups like al-Shabab (above), or Boko Haram and Al Qaeda in the Maghreb (AQIM) further west in countries like Niger.
Critics of American strategy in Africa worry that the U.S. is relying too heavily on corruptible military partners in the fight against radical Islamist groups like al-Shabab, or Boko Haram and Al Qaeda in the Maghreb (AQIM) further west in countries like Niger.
U.S. officials admitted in 2012 that the rise of Islamist groups in Africa, such as Al Qaeda in the Maghreb (AQIM), which operates in West Africa and may have been behind the fight with the Green Berets in Niger, had caught them flat-footed.
The region's Fulani ethnic community is frequently targeted and accused of having ties to area jihadist organizations, according to the UN. Similarly, Mali army posts routinely come under attack by separatists and al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, the terror group's North African offshoot.
Faqi, an ethnic Tuareg estimated to be about 41 years old, is believed to have been a member of Ansar Dine — an ally of al Qaeda in the Maghreb — and the head of the so-called "morality squad" that enforced fundamentalist rules in the city.
That ancient literary heritage, and the threat it faces from radical Islam, is the subject of Joshua Hammer's book "The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu," part history, part scholarly adventure story and part journalistic survey of the volatile religious politics of the Maghreb region.
Prosecutors contend that Mr. Mohamed had ties to several terrorist groups — not only to Boko Haram, but also to Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb and the National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad, a separatist movement of mostly Tuareg fighters based in northern Mali.
According to a new analysis by the Foundation for Defense of Democracies' Center on Sanctions and Illicit Finance, al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) has reaped about $100 million through a combination of ransom, drug smuggling, taxes on locals and donations from other countries.
Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb rose to prominence more than a decade ago largely because of extraordinary ransom payments, which started in 2003 with the abduction of 32 European tourists who were freed after governments paid an estimated €5 million, or about $6 million.
" M. Camus écrivit que les générations précédentes d'immigrés européens étaient attirées par leur "amour" de la France alors que les nouveaux arrivants, depuis les années 1970 – principalement issus des anciennes colonies françaises du Maghreb et de l'Afrique sub-saharienne – ne venaient pas en "amis.
Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) has claimed responsibility for attacks on a hotel in the capital of Mali last November, a restaurant and hotel in Burkina Faso's capital in January, and the Ivory Coast attack in the resort town of Grand Bassam.
Hours later in a statement released online, Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb said its fighters inside the hotel had killed 30 people, calling their operation "revenge against France and the disbelieving West," according to a translation by the SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors jihadist media.
The region's Fulani ethnic community is frequently targeted and accused of having ties to jihadist organizations in the area, according to the UN. Similarly, Mali army posts also routinely come under attack by separatists and al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, the terror group's North African offshoot.
In West Africa, Army and Special Operations forces are working with militaries from Burkina Faso, Mali, Senegal and other countries to try to stem a recent wave of attacks by Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, which has taken to hitting hotels and other tourist sites.
Back then, the countries of the Maghreb and the Middle East — born out of decolonization often violently wrested from occupying forces that had imposed on them war, poverty and misery — advocated for a vision of the future based on independence, egalitarianism, development, wealth creation, justice and coexistence.
The SEALs were in the country on a clandestine mission to support French and Malian counterterrorism forces battling Al Qaeda's branch in North and West Africa, known as Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, as well as smaller cells aligned with Al Qaeda or the Islamic State.
The SEALs were in Mali on a clandestine mission to support French and Malian counterterrorism forces battling Al Qaeda's branch in North and West Africa, known as Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, as well as smaller cells aligned with Al Qaeda or the Islamic State.
"The multiple militias and fractured relationship between factions in east and west Libya exacerbate the security situation, spilling into Tunisia and Egypt and the broader Maghreb, allowing the movement of foreign fighters, enabling the flow of migrants out of Libya to Europe and elsewhere," General Waldhauser said.
"We, al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, the Sahara region, declare our responsibility for the kidnapping of this Christianizing kaffir Beatrice Stockly, who by her work, drove out many from the fold of Islam by seducing them with crumbs of this worldly life," said an English-speaking fighter.
On Tuesday night, the Huffpost Maghreb said a protest leader had rejected the army's attempt to have Bouteflika declared unfit, saying the people instead wanted a national government of consensus - not a continuation of the aging and secretive elite entrenched in power since independence from France in 1962.
As well as investigating any interaction the attacker may have had with ISIS in Libya, US and UK intelligence services -- along with Africa Command -- are looking at the possibility Abedi could have met with operatives from al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), US officials told Barbara Starr.
As part of a charitable organization called Enfance Maghreb Avenir, Slimani was there to inaugurate seven new classrooms and a block of toilets, where before there had been a hole in the ground, causing many of the parents in the neighborhood to keep their daughters out of school.
Experts say there are three new trends causing this rise: Collaboration between Boko Haram and the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS); competition between al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) and ISIS for territory and recruits; and the continuing resilience of al Qaeda's Somalia branch, al-Shabab.
Ms. Arby was in Bamako in 2012 when a democratically elected government was toppled in a coup by military officers, who had complained of a lack of government support in fighting Tuareg rebels backed by Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, a regional terrorist organization with roots in Algeria.
The Navy SEALs were in the country on a clandestine mission to support French and Malian counterterrorism forces battling Al Qaeda's branch in North and West Africa, known as Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, as well as smaller cells aligned with Al Qaeda or the Islamic State.
That May, U.S. Navy Seal s killed bin Laden, and collected more than a million documents from his compound in northern Pakistan; among them was a letter from Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, seeking the central leadership's blessing to enter into a "secret agreement" with the Mauritanian government.
In May, friends greeted one another and people stopped along the route for the traditional sandwich of Moroccan merguez sausage on a baguette, which has become a staple of left-leaning protests in a sign of solidarity with many immigrant workers who came from the Maghreb region of northwestern Africa.
Photo by Emma Fargo/Reuters Yet, despite the activities of al-Qaeda in the Lands of the Islamic Maghreb — the local al-Qaeda affiliate — in neighboring Mali, and despite the growth of other jihadist groups in neighbor nations including Mauritania, Senegal has largely been spared from the effects of international terrorism.
World Briefing The terrorist group Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb released a video of a Swiss nun who had been kidnapped in northern Mali nearly three weeks ago in the first claim of responsibility for the hostage-taking, the SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors jihadist communications, said Tuesday on its website.
Those four militant Islamist extremist groups — the Shabab in East Africa, the Islamic State affiliate in Libya, Boko Haram in Central and West Africa, and Al Qaeda in the Maghreb region of West Africa — are widely believed to be the terrorist organizations that pose the most direct threat to civilians across the continent.
Les pays du Maghreb et du Moyen Orient, nés de décolonisations souvent arrachées de force à des puissances d'occupation qui leur avaient imposé guerre, pauvreté et misère, ont d'abord été les avocats d'une vision de l'avenir qui reposait sur l'indépendance, l'égalitarisme, le développement, la création des richesses, la justice et le vivre-ensemble.
Since the US role in the hunt for Kony began, Africa has seen the rise of insurgencies with links to global terror groups seen as plotting to directly attack the US and its allies, including Boko Haram in Nigeria, ISIS in Libya, and al Qaeda in the Maghreb in northwest Africa and Al-Shabaab in Somalia.
Many Americans had no clue that the U.S. had soldiers in Niger, let alone why until October 4, 2017,when four U.S. Army special forces troops were killed in an ambush in Niger while on patrol in an area known to have a presence from al-Qaida in Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) and the so-called Islamic State.
"We in the Greater Sahara region... in the Islamic Maghreb are speaking in regard to the blessed joint operation announced by our brothers in al Murabitoun – the attack on the Radisson Blu Hotel in the heart of the Malian capital," Hammam said, according to a translation from SITE Intelligence and analysis from the Long War Journal.
Of course, it could also be food courses, and if you have enough of them, they add up to a MEAL (the answer is MEALS in the puzzle because of the plural clue.) 48A: This was tough for a Tuesday, but the ATLAS mountains "form the backbone of the countries of the Maghreb," according to Britannica.com.
The attack, claimed by the Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb affiliate along with an allied militant group, was at least the fifth time in recent days that armed militants had ambushed unprotected civilians in cities around the world, hitting sites in Turkey, Egypt, Indonesia and Iraq with deadly assaults that underscored the vulnerabilities of soft targets that are difficult to defend.
While certainly not contained militarily he is very isolated geographically and there is limited interaction with other organisations, particularly al-Qaeda and AQIM [al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, an al-Qaeda affiliate with mainly Algerian recruits] or JNIM [Jama'at Nasr al-Islam wal Muslimin, another al-Qaeda outfit in Mali] in the Western Sahara, and we want to keep it that way.
There are about 800 US troops in Niger and the US military has maintained a presence in the northwest African country for five years, with small groups of US Special Operations Forces advising local troops as they battle terrorist groups, including, Islamic State in Greater Sahara, the ISIS-affiliated Boko Haram and al Qaeda's North African branch, al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb.
" Reitano too thinks it's all a bit of a snow storm: "I've traveled extensively around the Sahel since the Mali crisis in 2011, and have never once had a law enforcement official—either international or national—say that they have ever seized drugs with a direct connection to Al-Qaeda in the Maghreb (AQIM) or other terrorist groups in the region.
Supporting role for US military in Niger There are about 800 US troops in Niger, and the US military has maintained a presence in the northwest African country for five years, with small groups of US Special Operations Forces advising local troops as they battle two terrorist groups, ISIS-affiliated Boko Haram and al Qaeda's North African branch, al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb.
According to two senior American military officials, the two SEAL commandos were in Mali with the approval of Mr. Folmsbee in a previously undisclosed and unusual clandestine mission to support French and Malian counterterrorism forces battling Al Qaeda's branch in North and West Africa, known as Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, as well as smaller cells aligned with Al Qaeda or the Islamic State.

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