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Maiduguri (Nigeria) (AFP) - Abubakar Buba assistait à un mariage samedi après-midi dans la ville de Gwoza, dans le nord-est nigérian proche de la frontière camerounaise quand une "femme tenant deux enfants par la main est entrée". Puis il y a eu une explosion. Blessé dans cet attentat-suicide, il a été transporté comme d'autres victimes à l'hôpital de la capitale de l'Etat de Borno, Maiduguri, à environ trois heures de route de Gwoza. Dans le même hôpital, Aishatu Usman veille son fils, toujours inconscient depuis l'attentat-suicide qui a frappé la cérémonie de mariage. "Je prie Dieu pour que ...
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By Charlotte VAN OUWERKERK La Haye (AFP) - La Cour pénale internationale (CPI) a condamné mercredi un chef de la police islamique jihadiste pour des crimes de guerre et crimes contre l'humanité dans la ville sanctuaire malienne de Tombouctou en 2012 et 2013. Al Hassan Ag Abdoul Aziz Ag Mohamed Ag Mahmoud, dit Al Hassan, un Malien de 46 ans, a été reconnu coupable notamment de torture et d'atteinte à la dignité de la personne pour des actes commis dans la ville, alors sous le joug jihadiste, entre avril 2012 et janvier 2013. Selon le juge Antoine Kesia-Mbe Mindua, il a joué un "rôle clé" dans l...
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By Alain JEAN-ROBERT Paris (AFP) - La cour d'assises spéciale de Paris rend jeudi son verdict en appel contre deux accusés jugés pour leur rôle présumé dans l'attentat de Nice qui a fait 86 morts le 14 juillet 2016. Seuls deux des huit accusés de première instance, Mohamed Ghraieb et Chokri Chafroud, deux amis de Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel, le Tunisien de 31 ans auteur de l'attentat au camion-bélier sur la promenade des Anglais le soir du feu d'artifice, ont choisi de faire appel. Poursuivis pour association de malfaiteurs terroriste, ils avaient été tous deux condamnés à 18 ans de réclusion cr...
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By Alain JEAN-ROBERT Paris (AFP) - Ami de l'auteur du carnage au camion-bélier qui a fait 86 morts sur la Promenade des Anglais le 14 juillet 2016, Mohamed Ghraieb, condamné en première instance, a clamé en appel son innocence jeudi, reconnaissant, dépité, qu'il n'arrivait "pas à convaincre". "Je n'adhère pas du tout à l'idéologie jihadiste, je n'adhère pas à la violence, je ne suis pas un terroriste, j'aime la France", a répété le Franco-Tunisien de 48 ans, poursuivi pour association de malfaiteurs terroriste. Lors du premier procès, à l'automne 2022, Mohamed Ghraieb comparaissait libre sous ...
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Paris (AFP) - Five months after the United States announced the killing of Al-Qaeda's leader Ayman al-Zawahiri in Afghanistan, the global jihadist group has still not confirmed his death or announced a new boss. In early August, US President Joe Biden said US armed forces fired two missiles from a drone flying above the Afghan capital, striking al-Zawahiri's safe house and killing him. But the group's propaganda arms have continued to broadcast undated audio or video messages of the bearded Egyptian ideologue who led the group after US special forces in 2011 killed its charismatic founder Osam...
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Washington (AFP) - A Canadian jihadist said to be a key player in the Islamic State group's propaganda production and who narrated multiple violent videos was sentenced Friday to life in prison, the US Department of Justice said. Mohammed Khalifa, who was born in Saudi Arabia, pleaded guilty in December to conspiring to provide material support to IS resulting in death. According to the Department of Justice (DOJ) indictment, he left Canada in 2013 to join the IS group in Syria, where he quickly took on a leading role in the self-proclaimed "caliphate" that straddled that country and Iraq. Kha...
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Washington (AFP) - A mentally ill inmate from Guantanamo Bay has been repatriated to Saudi Arabia, the US Department of Defense announced Monday. Suspected of being Al Qaeda's intended 20th hijacker for the September 11, 2001 attacks against the United States, Mohammed al-Qahtani was tortured by interrogators at the US military base in Cuba where he has been detained for nearly two decades. The government dropped its case against him in 2008 due to the abuse he experienced at the prison. In February, US authorities recommended he be released and repatriated. "On Feb. 4, 2022, Secretary of Def...
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Washington (AFP) - A Canadian jihadist who fought for the Islamic State (IS) group and narrated violent propaganda videos pleaded guilty in a US court Friday, the Justice Department announced. Mohammed Khalifa, 38, admitted to "conspiring to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization (ISIS), resulting in death," and will be sentenced on April 15, 2022, the department said in a statement, using another acronym for the jihadist group. He faces a life sentence. Khalifa, who was born in Saudi Arabia, was captured during a firefight in January 2019 by Kurdish-dominate...
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Paris (AFP) - US Vice President Kamala Harris and French Prime Minister Jean Castex laid wreaths at a Paris cafe and France's national football stadium Saturday, six years since deadly terror attacks that left 130 people dead. The attacks by three separate teams of Islamic State group jihadists on the night of November 13, 2015 were the worst in France since World War II. Gunmen mowed down 129 people in front of cafes and at a concert hall in the capital, while a bus driver was killed after suicide bombers blew themselves up at the gates of the stadium in its suburbs. Harris, closing a four-d...
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Niamey (AFP) - The gunmen who kidnapped an American citizen in southern Niger issued a ransom demand Wednesday for his release, a local official said.The hostage, Philip Walton, described as the son of a missionary living in Niger, was abducted Monday night by six men armed with Kalashnikovs on the outskirts of Massalata, a village about 10 kilometers (six miles) from the border with Nigeria."The kidnappers phoned the man's father and demanded a ransom," said Ibrahim Abba Lele, prefect of the Birni Nkonni department, which includes Massalata.The US State Department said Tuesday it was aware of...
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