• On 16 July 2014, militants from the Uqba Ibn Nafi Battalion attacked two checkpoints in the Chaambi Mountains killing fourteen Tunisian soldiers and injuring...
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    July 2021. AA, Daily Sabah with (16 December 2014). "Turkey announces national mourning over Pakistan attack". Daily Sabah. "President Hollande declares...
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    The Chaambi Operations, or Battle of Chaambi were part of the insurgency in the Maghreb. In December 2012, the Tunisian Army launched an offensive against...
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  • formed. 16 July - 2014 Chaambi Mountains attack: Two checkpoints in the Chaambi Mountains are attacked by militants. 26 October - The 2014 Tunisian parliamentary...
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    Africa portal 2014 Chaambi Mountains attack 2015 Bardo National Museum attack 2015 Sousse attacks 2015 Tunis bombing The highlights of the attack (Tunisian...
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    foreigners. Both of these attacks were carried out by Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb. Burkina Faso also faced an uprising in 2014 leading to the downfall...
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    it was a deliberate attack. A 24-year-old man named Niser bin Muhammad Nasr Nawar was the suicide bomber, who carried out the attack with the aid of a relative...
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  • Ouagadougou was also the site of a similar attack in 2016, which took place in the same district as the 2017 attack. Later that year, the region was struck...
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  • several unidentified gunmen attacked the Israeli embassy in Nouakchott, the capital of Mauritania, in a gun and grenade attack. At 2:20 am local time, between...
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    Islamist attacks, in the Northern Mali conflict. Neighboring countries also experienced a Boko Haram insurgency. In Burkina Faso, the 2014 Burkinabé...
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  • to terrorist groups. Africa portal 2014 Chaambi Mountains attack 2015 Sousse attacks Bardo National Museum attack Ghriba synagogue bombing "Tunisia identifies...
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    Solhan and Tadaryat massacres (category Marketplace attacks in Burkina Faso)
    On 4 and 5 June 2021, insurgents attacked the Solhan and Tadaryat villages in the Yagha Province of Burkina Faso. The massacres left at least 174 people...
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    In Amenas hostage crisis (category Attacks on buildings and structures in Algeria)
    Algeria. One of Belmokhtar's senior lieutenants, Abdul al Nigeri, led the attack and was among the terrorists killed. After four days, the Algerian special...
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  • 2007 killing of French tourists in Mauritania (category Attacks on tourists in Africa)
    December 2007. The attack happened near Aleg, 250 km east of the capital Nouakchott. The victims, five French tourists on holiday, were attacked while they were...
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    original on 23 February 2014. Retrieved 26 February 2015. "BBC News – Algeria: AQIM militants kill 14 soldiers in mountains". BBC News. Archived from...
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    beginning with an attack on a gendarmerie by alleged Boko Haram members. Between August 2015 and October 2016, seven different posts were attacked across the...
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  • On 3 May 2021, Islamic militants attacked Kodyel, a village in Foutouri, Burkina Faso. The attack left at least 30 people dead and another 20 injured....
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    2009 Nouakchott suicide bombing (category Attacks on diplomatic missions of France)
    Mauritania. The bombing killed the perpetrator and wounded three people. The attack occurred three weeks after Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz had claimed victory in...
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  • attacks police academy in Algeria". the Guardian.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) "24 policemen killed in Algeria attack"...
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  • August 18, 2021, suspected Islamists attacked a civilian convoy, killing 80. On August 18, 2021, Islamists attacked and civilian convoy as it was being...
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    three were injured in an IED attack in Chaambi Mountains National Park, north-western Tunisia. AQIM claimed the attack was undertaken by militants from...
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  • Mreiti base attack occurred on 4 June 2005 when militants from the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat, a predecessor group of AQIM, attacked a remote...
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  • against the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC) near the Babor Mountains in Sétif province in September 2003. The armed forces at this time began...
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    forcing the refugees to seek shelter in the settlement. They then began to attack the local infrastructure, prevented people from leaving Djibo, and ambushed...
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    been targeted by the Tunisian Army in the Chaambi Operations. In 2014, Uqba ibn Nafi Brigade militants attacked two Tunisian military checkpoints, killing...
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  • 2007 Algiers Government Palace bombings (category Attacks on government buildings and structures in Africa)
    after the attack took place. The first attack, which was on the prime minister's office, killed 12 people and injured 118, and the second attack on the police...
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    Talataye Bandiagara Tadjalalt and Haroum Chaambi Operations (2012–2019) 2014 Chaambi Mountains Barkhane (2014-2022) 2016 Ouagadougou Grand-Bassam Nassoumbou...
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    Talataye Bandiagara Tadjalalt and Haroum Chaambi Operations (2012–2019) 2014 Chaambi Mountains Barkhane (2014-2022) 2016 Ouagadougou Grand-Bassam Nassoumbou...
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    Soliman Shooting 2012 – 2019 Chaambi Operations 18 December 2010 – 14 January 2011 Tunisian Revolution 3 – 4 February 2014 Raoued Operation 2015 – 2022...
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    Organization in the Islamic Maghreb has claimed responsibility for the attacks, stating that it was "another successful conquest [...] carried out by...
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