Sources: Reuters
Clashes between the armed forces of Burkina Faso and militants linked to al-Qaeda and ISIL kill dozens of people. In an attack in the northern town of Arbinda, militants killed 30 civilians, 14 soldiers and three pro-government militiamen. 2021-08-18
Around 500 experts from over 70 countries meet in Paris to start a two-day counterterror conference discussing methods of cutting financing to Al-Qaeda and ISIL. 2018-04-25
A top Al-Qaeda commander is killed in an airstrike in Syria. 2015-10-17
Two suspected Al-Qaeda militants are killed in a U.S. drone strike in the southeastern province of Hadhramaut. 2014-01-8
An Al-Qaeda-linked group known as the Abdullah Azzam Brigades claims responsibility for the attacks. 2013-11-19
The United Nations Security Council adopts Resolution 2093 that partially lifts a decades-old arms embargo on Somalia for one year, allowing the government in Mogadishu to buy weapons to strengthen its security forces to fight al-Qaeda linked Islamists. 2013-03-6
Chadian soldiers kill Mokhtar Belmokhtar, an al-Qaeda commander in Africa responsible for a mass hostage-taking at an Algerian gas plant. 2013-03-2
Missile strikes kill eight militants near the Al-Qaeda stronghold of Jaar in southern Yemen. 2012-05-9
The SITE Institute, a terrorist-monitoring organisation, states that the al-Qaeda affiliated Islamic State of Iraq has claimed responsibility for a deadly attack on the offices of Al-Arabiya Television in Baghdad that killed four people and injured at least 10. 2010-07-29
Two men bound for Somalia to join an Islamic extremist group with links to Al-Qaeda are arrested at Kennedy International Airport, New York City, United States. 2010-06-6