A spate of stunning terror attacks combined with a wave of arrests has Moroccans on edge. By Siham Ali for Magharebia in Rabat Morocco took particular…
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By MICHAEL R. GORDON WASHINGTON — In one of her final appearances as secretary of state, Hillary Rodham Clinton on Wednesday vigorously defended her handling of last September’s attack…
By CLIFFORD KRAUSS and STANLEY REED HOUSTON — The gas complex in Algeria that came under attack last week, like scores of oil and gas fields around the globe, had been a world…
By Raffaello Pantucci Senior Research Fellow, Royal United Services Institute Militant Islamists are operating across the vast Sahara Desert UK Prime Minister David Cameron has said…
By Anthony Faiola and Michael Birnbaum LONDON — Algerian security forces on Sunday were still sweeping a vast desert facility for bodies, a day after officials said 11 kidnappers…
By Associated Press RABAT, Morocco — The Islamists are back as a force in Algeria. The terrorist attack on an Algerian natural gas plant that left…
Reuters By Lamine Chikhi and Abdelaziz Boumzar ALGIERS/IN AMENAS, ALGERIA By Lamine Chikhi and Abdelaziz Boumzar ALGIERS/IN AMENAS, Algeria (Reuters) – A veteran Islamist fighter claimed…
By: Said Temsamani On January 19 the Moroccan authorities said they had broken up a recruitment cell for Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb. The aim of the…