A militant leader from Mali championed a rock band and helped write a hit song before leading an Islamist army that killed ...

Evidence is displayed during a hearing in Tunis for suspected members of al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb. (Zoubeir Souissi/Reuters) Algerian and Western counterterrorism efforts, along with an ...

Africa is a continent of vast beauty and diversity ... including Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) and its offshoots, ...

the head of al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb’s operations in the Sahel region of North Africa. Conflicting reports have emerged over the recent claim by Chadian President Idriss Deby Itno that top al ...

Until his death, Hamaha was the former spokesman of the Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa (MUJAO), originally a splinter group of AQIM. In the video, AQIM referred to Hamaha as a “martyr.” ...

featuring remarks from CSIS Africa Program Director Jennifer Cooke and project adviser and former AFRICOM Commander General Carter Ham. Topics of discussion include: Boko Haram in Nigeria; AQIM in ...

This underscores the need for a nuanced understanding of these regional dynamics to inform effective security strategies in ...

The Nigerian government claims that Boko Haram is “the West Africa branch of the worldwide Al-Qaida movement” with connections to al-Shabaab in Somalia and AQIM in Mali. But in some ways ...

[5] The three West African organizations, which unified to create JNIM were all al-Qaeda affiliates: Ansar al-Din; al-Murabitoon; and al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb’s (AQIM) Sahara branch. JNIM also ...

MUJAO split from AQIM in October 2011, following accusations that AQIM was ... forth from the Sahara in the medieval period and eventually conquered much of north Africa and Spain. MUJAO split in 2015 ...

Until 2009, AQIM had reached deals to release all of its ... the first documentary evidence of democracy being practiced in Africa, a letter from an emissary to the sheikh of Masina.

The group quickly emerged around a core of Ifoghas Tuareg and longtime companions of Ag Ghali, eventually picking up support from al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM). It quickly emerged as an ...