Ansar Dine, an al Qaeda-linked group claiming control of the city, is blamed for the attacks on historical landmarks.
He fought alongside the al-Qaida-linked group for years while gaining fame for posting YouTube videos of jihadi rap songs.
Nearly 60 people have been killed in an attack by an al-Qaeda-linked group on an army outpost in southern Yemen.
Colonel William Higgins was abducted in 1988 by a Hezbollah linked group known to be under the direct command of Mugniyah.
The focus of these partnerships has been to quell an al Qaeda-linked group that uses a Malian forest as its base.
African Union and Somali troops are battling militants from Al-Shabaab, an al Qaeda-linked group that controls part of the nation's south.
The diplomats were taken hostage weeks before an al Qaeda-linked group said it had beheaded three of them and shot the fourth to death.
One-eyed veteran Islamist fighter Mokhtar Belmokhtar has claimed responsibility for the hostage-taking on behalf of his al Qaeda-linked group, according to Mauritania's Sahara Media news agency.
Grenade attacks have escalated since Kenya sent its forces to neighboring Somalia last year to battle the Al-Shabaab, an al Qaeda-linked group it blamed for kidnapping foreigners in the nation.
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But the al-Qaeda-linked group's fighters are still highly active in much of the countryside in southern and central Somalia and have carried out attacks in cities they no longer control.
Why not dispatch Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, whose department had received real-time emails when the consulate was under attack, including one which disclosed that the al-Quaida-linked group Ansar al-Sharia had taken credit?
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Prosecutors also claim that they are members of an al-Qaeda-linked group, called the Salafist Group for Call and Combat, although it is not known if they are directly linked to Mr bin Laden.
An al Qaeda-linked group that took responsibility for a massive hostage-taking at a natural gas facility in Algeria this month said it did so in retaliation for Algeria allowing France to use its airspace to fight the Islamist militants in Mali.
The al-Qaeda-linked militant group al-Shabab lost control of Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, to AU and Somali government forces in 2011.
Kenya is helping to track down the al-Qaeda-linked militant group al-Shabab in Somalia.
The Turkish government stands behind the al- Qaida- and Hamas- linked IHH group.
The tune's title in Indonesian, "Laskar Cinta, " is a play on "Laskar Jihad" ("Warriors of Holy War"), Indonesia's homegrown, al Qaeda-linked terrorist group.
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In many areas, conflict and security concerns -- prompted by the activities of al Qaeda-linked Islamist group al-Shabaab -- hindered humanitarian aid and access.
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The EU could label Hezbollah a terrorist organization after Bulgaria linked the group to a deadly bomb attack on Israeli tourists, an EU official said.
It also claimed that he was a key recruiter of Kenyan Muslims to fight with Al-Shabaab, the al Qaeda-linked militant group that is trying to overthrow the Somali government.
Senator Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.), vice chairman of the intelligence panel of the Armed Services Committee, said that al-Harzi was a confirmed member of Ansar al-Sharia, the al-Qaida-linked terror group that took credit for the consulate attack while it was occurring.
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He is also said to have fought with Taliban fighters in the north of Afghanistan and his group is close to the notorious al-Qaeda-linked Haqqani militant group, which is based in Pakistan's tribal areas but which focuses its activities inside Afghanistan.
The ATS believes the two sets of bombings were carried out by the same group, linked to the Pakistani-based militant group, Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT).
Videos linked to his group show how to prepare homemade explosives from almost anywhere.
Kenya is a key component in the fight against the al-Qaida-linked Somali militant group al-Shabab.
So far, he has not been linked to any group or any other church fires.
They suspect he had ties to al Qaeda, or the al Qaeda-linked Syrian rebel group Jabhat al-Nusra.
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The U.S. military unit provides counter-terrorism advice and training to Filipino troops fighting the al-Qaida-linked Abu Sayyaf group.
He was evicted from his house in June, in a move the rights group linked to his activism.
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