In 2013, he refused to swear allegiance to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who would go on to become the emir of the Islamic State group, and instead pledged his loyalty to Al-Qaeda's Ayman al-Zawahiri.

In 2013, he refused to swear allegiance to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who would go on to become the emir of the Islamic State group, and instead pledged his loyalty to Al-Qaeda’s Ayman al-Zawahiri. A ...

South Africa was not the only state in Africa subjected to a brutal racist dictatorship during the decades of the apartheid regime. Conditions were far worse in Sudan, and they continue now to inflict ...

The sudden collapse in December of the long-standing Bashar Assad regime in Syria, unleashed a wave of trouble for most Syrians, with the exception of Islamists and their extremist supporters across ...