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Topic: Ansar al-Shariah

May 23, 2013
12:05 pm

A injuried Tunisian police officer is helped by colleagues during clashes with radical Islamist movement Ansar al-Shariah supporters, in Ettadhamen, near Tunis, Sunday May 19, 2013. Tunisia's Interior Ministry on Friday banned a conference by the North African country's most prominent ultraconservative Islamic group, setting up the possibility of a confrontation over the weekend. (Photo credit: AP/Nawfel)

‘Tunisia is not the land of jihad’

Tunisia’s minister of religious affairs strikes back after Islamists threaten violence; Iran’s supreme leader upholds barring of Rafsanjani from presidential race

By Michael Bassin

April 15, 2013
5:58 am

Leader of Libyan Islamic extremist militia shot

Sufyan bin Qumu, a former Guantanamo Bay detainee, in intensive care after attack

January 26, 2013
10:56 pm

Libyan militias from towns throughout the country's west parade through Tripoli, Libya in February 2012. (photo credit: AP/ Abdel Magid Al Fergany)

Fears grow that Libya is incubator of turmoil

Islamist groups on the rise in North Africa since the fall of Gaddafi, and Malian conflict is the latest example

October 30, 2012
3:51 pm

Diplomatic dhimmitude: Obama’s Oslo Syndrome

What the current administration fails to internalize is that radical Islam is at war with the US and the West — and no amount of apologizing is going to change that

By Richard L. Cravatts

October 28, 2012
1:43 am

A Libyan man explains that the bloodstains on the column are from one of the American staff members who grabbed the edge of the column while he was evacuated, after an attack that killed four Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stevens on the night of Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2012, in Benghazi, Libya. (photo credit: AP/Mohammad Hannon)

Libyan witnesses describe planned attack on US consulate

Outrage over anti-Islam film was used as convenient cover, expert says, as officials struggle to unpack assault on Benghazi property

By Maggie Michael. Paul Schemm

October 25, 2012
12:25 am

A Libyan man walks through the rubble of the damaged US Consulate in Benghazi after an attack that killed four Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stevens, on the night of Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2012 (photo credit: AP/Mohammad Hannon)

White House told of nature of Libya terror attack within two hours, email shows

Press secretary says communique represents just one piece of information the administration was receiving in the immediate wake of the attack

By Larry Margasak

September 25, 2012
2:49 am

Libyan National Army soldiers in Benghazi prepare to enter Rafallah al-Sahati Islamic Militia Brigades compound, seen behind the wall. (photo credit: AP/Mohammad Hannon)

Libyan army appoints officers to head militias

Revolutionary government seeks to rein in rebel groups that helped topple Gaddafi

September 23, 2012
5:33 pm

Libyan president orders disbandment of militias

Army threatens to expel armed groups from Tripoli by force

September 22, 2012
5:02 am

Libyans protest against Islamic militias in Benghazi, a week after the attack on the US Embassy that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and three others in September 2012. (photo credit: AP /Mohammad Hannon)

3 killed, 20 wounded in clashes between civilians and militias in Benghazi

Angry demonstrators storm HQ of Islamist extremist group to protest last week’s killing of US citizens in Libya

By MAGGIE MICHAEL and Times of Israel staff

September 22, 2012
2:12 am

Libyan civilians watch fires in Ansar al-Shariah Brigades compound, after hundreds raided the Brigades base, in Benghazi, Libya, Friday, Sept. 21 (photo credit: AP/Mohammad Hannon)

Libyans storm HQ of Islamist extremists in backlash over US consulate attack

Ansar al-Shariah personnel withdraw as hundreds of protesters set fire to their compound; several people reportedly wounded