Affiliates have control of large areas of rural Mali, Niger, northern Burkina Faso and into North Africa. In January 2023 the U.S. military carried out an operation that killed a senior IS leader ...

Chaos, disillusionment and oppression provide the perfect conditions for Islamic State. Currently, the Islamist extremists are expanding from Syria and Iraq into North Africa. Several local groups ...

The estimated $1.4 trillion global Islamic finance sector could be on the rise in North Africa where governments have been introducing new regulation as they seek shariah-compliant alternatives ...

ALGIERS–Algeria hunted Islamic militants and gave them amnesty; neighbouring Morocco jailed thousands of suspects. But new approaches may be needed in the face of the deadly dangers posed by Al ...

Libya and the Sinai are “vulnerable” areas that the Islamic State group would like to exploit for potential oil revenue and recruits, officials say, as oil production and moving fighters have ...

Attempts by the Nigerian military to retake the northeastern town of Baga have been repelled by Islamic State West Africa Province, a faction of Boko Haram.

While there has been much talk of the Arab spring, ethnic Berbers have played a key role in the changes sweeping through North Africa, which is leading to greater recognition for their culture and ...

France has deported a Tunisian cleric who allegedly called the country's flag satanic. Mahjoub Mahjoubi, 52, was flown to North Africa just 12 hours after his arrest over sermons said to go ...

A vehicle is engulfed in flames after it was set on fire inside the U.S. Consulate compound in Benghazi, Libya, Sept. 11, 2012. Inset is a photo of U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens, who was killed in ...

DAKAR, Senegal — On Aug. 5, militants carrying the black flag of the Islamic State launched a daring land-and-sea assault on the strategic port city of Mocimboa da Praia in northern Mozambique ...

IS BOKO HARAM becoming Africa’s Islamic State? In its bloodlust and ambition to hold territory, it certainly resembles the jihadists in Iraq and Syria. Boko Haram has carved out a “caliphate ...

While there has been much talk of the "Arab spring", ethnic Berbers have played a key role in the changes sweeping through North Africa, which is leading to greater recognition for their culture ...