Al Qaeda in Africa

Many in a key Malian town are grateful for the French intervention but fearful that the Islamists may yet return.

Sec. of State Clinton pointed to the rising threat of Al Qaeda affiliates in northern Africa during the Benghazi hearings.

Nigeria’s newest terror group, Ansaru, demonstrates how Africa’s homegrown militants are more and more embracing an Al Qaeda-styled global ideology.

Western countries have little desire to intervene in African conflicts. But with the rise of Al Qaeda in Africa, they have little choice. A cooperative model employed in Somalia, a

Al Shabaab said their gunmen were behind the attack on Westgate shopping mall in the Kenyan capital Nairobi that killed at least 62 people.