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This video grab image created on August 14, 2016 taken from a video released on youtube purportedly by Boko Haram showing what is claimed to be one of the group’s fighters at an undisclosed location standing in front of girls allegedly kidnapped from Chibok in April 2014. AFP

Boko Haram Video Claims to Show Missing Nigerian School Girls

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Aug 14, 2016 | World

Nigerian hardline militant group Boko Haram has recently published a video showing footage of dozens of school girls abducted two years ago, and saying some of them have been killed in air strikes. Boko Haram seized more than 270 girls from their school in Chibok,...

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Nigerian militants warn of “zero” oil output in new attacks, Reuters

Nigerian Militants: No Plan for Delta Ceasefire

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Jun 21, 2016 | World

The Niger Delta Avengers, a militant group that has claimed responsibility for attacks on oil and gas facilities in Nigeria’s southern energy focal point, denied on Tuesday ever agreeing to a ceasefire with the government. Government officials spoke of a...

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British police activity close to the scene where a man was murdered in John Wilson Street, Woolwich, south-east London, England, 22 May 2013. (EPA)

Opinion: A betrayal of Islam

by Mshari Al-Zaydi | May 25, 2013 | Opinion

British Prime Minister David Cameron was right to describe the brutal murder of a British soldier committed by a radical Muslim of African descent as a “betrayal of Islam.” One of the perpetrators of London’s so-called “machete attack” appeared in a video...

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Islamist preacher Omar Bakri attends an interview with Reuters at his home in Tripoli, northern Lebanon May 24, 2013.(REUTERS/Stringer)

Omar Bakri: Woolwich murder suspect attended my lectures

by Mohammed Al-Shafey | May 25, 2013 | World

London, Asharq Al-Awsat—Radical cleric Omar Bakri, founder of the banned Al-Muhajiroun group, has acknowledged that one of the suspects in the brutal Woolwich terrorist attack used to attend his lectures. The Lebanese cleric, who has been barred from returning to...