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Illustrative: Egyptian security officers guard a courthouse in Cairo, Egypt, November 8, 2017. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)
October 15, 2018, 1:16 am
Egypt sentences three Islamic extremists to death for killing policemen
Defendants found guilty of involvement in killing of 10 officers and belonging to terror group Ansar al-Shariah
By AFP
A relative of one of the Egyptian Coptic Christians purportedly murdered by Islamic State (IS) group militants in Libya reacts after hearing the news on February 16, 2015 in the village of Al-Awar in Egypt's southern province of Minya. (photo credit: AFP photo/Mohamed El-Shahed)
February 17, 2015, 7:27 pm
35 Egyptians kidnapped in Libya after anti-IS strikes: report
Egypt’s president calls for UN-backed intervention in Libya; UN official calls Islamic State slaying of Christians a ‘vile crime’
By ToI Staff and AFP
Illustrative image of Islamist fighters in Libya (YouTube screenshot)
January 5, 2015, 9:01 pm
Egyptian Christians held in Libya freed, tribal leader says
Muftah Marzuq denies 13 captives were kidnapped by Islamists, claims they were detained by human traffickers
By AFP
Libyan followers of Ansar al-Shariah Brigades and other Islamic militias, hold a demonstration against a film and a cartoon denigrating the Prophet Muhammad. (AP Photo/Mohammad Hannon)
January 4, 2015, 12:26 am
Libya Islamists said to abduct 20 Egypt Christians
Tripoli believes victims were targeted for their religion amid spate of violent attacks against Copts in region
By AFP
People gather at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering Technology following an air raid that missed its target in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi on June 1, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/ABDULLAH DOMA)
June 2, 2014, 1:52 pm
Clashes in Libya’s Benghazi kill 10 people
A rogue general battles Islamists in the hope of defeating terrorism in the city
By AFP
A protester holds up spent ammunition in Tripoli, Libya after militiamen attacked peaceful protesters demanding the disbanding of the country's rampant armed groups on Friday, Nov. 15, 2013. (photo credit: AP via AP video)
November 25, 2013, 3:57 pm
Libyan officials: Clashes in Benghazi kill 5
Armed residents are battling to take back the streets from lawless militia groups
By AP
Tunisian police officers secure the place where a suicide bomber blew himself up near a seaside hotel in Sousse,Tunisia, Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2013 (photo credit: AP/Raghda Jammali)
October 31, 2013, 3:33 pm
Terror in Tunisia
A failed suicide attack on a beach and a thwarted one near a presidential grave are new occurrences in Tunisia
By Elhanan Miller
Marcos Alonso Zea in an undated photo (photo credit: FBI handout)
October 18, 2013, 10:16 pm
Long Island man arrested in terror probe
Authorities say suspect sought to join al-Qaeda in Yemen and conspired to commit murders abroad
By AP
Tunisian President Moncef Marzouki (photo credit: AP)
September 24, 2013, 3:32 am
Tunisia leader urges Iran to push peace in Syria
President Moncef Marzouki renews offer of asylum to Bashar Assad; calls Rouhani a ‘key player’ in ending the conflict
By Lara Jakes
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)
May 23, 2013, 12:05 pm
‘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
Libyan militias from towns throughout the country's west parade through Tripoli, Libya in February 2012. (photo credit: AP/ Abdel Magid Al Fergany)
January 26, 2013, 10:56 pm
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
Richard L. Cravatts
October 30, 2012, 3:51 pm
Richard L. Cravatts
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
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)
October 28, 2012, 1:43 am
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
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, September 11, 2012. (photo credit: AP/Mohammad Hannon)
October 25, 2012, 12:25 am
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
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