Islamists News

The Mali town of Gao which was liberated by the French Army last January has once again come under attack by Islamist rebels currently fighting against the Malian government.

Woolwich - On September 7, 2005, four terrorists murdered 52 innocent people and injured hundreds in a coordinated series of suicide attacks in London. Two years ago, three more planned an encore.

French Interior Minister Manuel Valls announced yesterday that, as part of the French government’s fight against radical Islam and “global jihadism,” several radical Moslem clerics were likely to be deported from France over the coming days.

Supporting France's invasion of Mali and in what appears to be another front in the war against Al Qaeda, the Obama administration has requested $32 million to train African troops in the fight against the Islamists.

Bamako - French military intervention in northern Mali has provoked threats from Islamic extremists that French citizens are at risk "wherever they find themselves in the Muslim world."

Bamako - An unmarried couple has been stoned to death by Islamists in front of about 200 people in the town of Aguelhok in northern Mali, BBC reports.

A video uploaded onto YouTube and Liveleak depicts members of the Syrian Islamist al-Nour militia executing a "collaborator" by throwing him out a third-storey window.

Bamako - A Tuareg rebel group and an Al-Qaeda-linked Islamist group have announced the formation of an independent Islamic state in northern Mali, following a coup in March.

Cairo - Tens of thousands of Egyptians packed Tahrir Square yesterday - Islamists and liberals joined forces in protest against the ruling military government.

The nomadic Tuaregs of northern Mali have joined forces with Islamic extremists to seize control of the north of the country, and now surround the legendary town of Timbuktu.