AL-QAEDA

Mystery surrounds image of ringleader who led rebels in raid on In Amenas gas plant.

Algeria's In Amenas gas plant attack mastermind Belmokhtar 'leading the fighting' against Chadian forces.

Militant was reportedly involved in killing of British tourist Edwin Dyer in 2009.

IBTimes TV presenter Marverine Cole examines the international response to the crisis in Mali.

France's defence minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said violent fighting ongoing in Mali's northern mountain region near Algerian border.

Rebels shell Bashar al-Assad's Army General Command in heart of Syrian capital.

Former LAPD officer highlighted ease of buying Class III Weapons before rampage.

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Ex-US ambassador Vicki Huddleston claims four French hostages still held by Salafist kidnappers in Mali.

Economic interests as much as post-colonial 'friendship' have pushed President Francois Hollande into military intervention.

White House to meet congressional concerns ahead of confirmration of John Brennan as CIA boss.

Former UK prime minister warns of 'long, difficult, messy' campaign that will take 'a generation'

Militants flee to mountains near Algerian border as African troops set to take over operation.

Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), a terrorist group which is financed through its criminal activities of smuggling, drug trafficking and kidnapping for ransom, carried out two separate bombings on 11 April 2007 in the Algerian capital, Algiers. Active members vary between 300 and 800 for this Salafist group which formally changed its name from Group for Call (that is Preaching) and Combat (GSPC in its French form) only in January 2007. Itself a splinter organisation with a history of lea...

French foreign minister Laurent Fabius said rebels are carrying out an evasion strategy.

Foreign Office warns of kidnapping threat from criminals and terrorists in breakaway Somaliland region

Jessica Chastain hunts and captures Osama bin Laden - and possibly an Oscar - in Kathryn Bigelow's thrilling dramatisation.

Clinton tells Congress of commitment to improving security at US diplomatic missions worldwide.

Fantasist who posed as Taliban fighter and shared terrorist propaganda on Facebook jailed for five years.

PM details Algerian rescue operation at In Amenas gas plant and warns MPs of growing threat of Islamist militants in north Africa.

Ansar Dine, MUJAO and Al-Qaida in Maghreb recruiting hundreds of children.