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WASHINGTON — The air was tense in the political corridors of Washington as a U.S. congressman, Rep. Scott Perry of Pennsylvania, unfurled a whirlwind of accusations, claiming the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is inadvertently channeling funds to nefarious entities like the Islamic State (ISIS), Al-Qaeda, and other malevolent groups. This, he declared, was a fiasco of monumental proportions, raising eyebrows and temperatures in equal measure. Thursday bore witness to the…

The French army announced on Monday that its anti-jihadist force in Mali had killed Yahia Djouadi, a "senior leader" of Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) in charge of finance and logistics. Djouadi,…

Al-Shabaab militants linked to al-Qaeda suffer series of casualties in Somalia MOGADISHU, Somalia - Somalia-based al-Shabaab militants continued to suffer immeasurable losses in the country following a series of operations launched by the Somali National Army which consolidates most of the territories of central and southern Somalia, occupied by the militants. Activists are fighting to…

In October, heavy fighting was reported between Islamic State and al-Qaeda fighters. This has been the case again for ten days in the Malian Gourma region. The local branches of the two terrorist organizations, AQIM and EIGS, compete in the Sahel for control of certain areas. A previous battle of significance also took place…