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Lebanon - Radical cleric al-Assir sentenced to death
Lebanon
MENA
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Protests over who gets Lebanon's 'general amnesty' delay vote

Lebanon delayed a parliamentary amnesty vote after protests erupted over exclusions affecting Islamist detainees and convicts.

Rita El Jammal
20 May, 2026
Algerian soldiers take part in the military parade marking the 70th anniversary of the Algerian Revolution in Algiers, Algeria, on November 1, 2024.
Algeria
MENA
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Algeria says army killed four 'terrorists'

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
01 February, 2026
The clashes happened near Harem in Idlib province [Getty]
Syria
MENA
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Clashes between Syrian govt, French fighters in Idlib province

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
22 October, 2025
Life In Syria After Bashar al-Assad's Regime Ends
Syria
MENA
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Foreign Islamists petition Syrian state for citizenship

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
16 August, 2025
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Sudan war
Analysis
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How Bashir-era figures are planning a post-war comeback in Sudan

Eisa Dafalla
07 August, 2025
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Post-Assad Syria
MENA
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Who is the shadowy armed group claiming the Syria church attack?

The New Arab Staff
24 June, 2025
French Guiana residents decry plans for a supermax prison to house drug traffickers and Islamists [Getty]
France
World
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France revives Devil's Island legacy with supermax Islamist jail

The New Arab Staff
21 May, 2025
People wave flags and hold a portrait of Syria's new ruler Ahmed al-Sharaa during a protest calling for the release of detained Islamists held in Roumieh prison in the northern Lebanese port city of Tripoli on January 5, 2025. (IBRAHIM CHALHOUB/AFP)
Tripoli
MENA
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Lebanon rally calls for release of Islamists jailed during Syria war

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
05 January, 2025
Anjem Choudary AFP
United Kingdom
World
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Notorious UK Islamist preacher Anjem Choudary jailed for life

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
30 July, 2024
France
MENA
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Tunisian imam expelled by France says to appeal decision

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
23 February, 2024
United Kingdom
World
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UK vows to ban Hizb ut-Tahrir as terror group

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
15 January, 2024
Tunisia
MENA
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Tunisian police arrest five 'terrorist' prison escapees

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
07 November, 2023
Tunisia police [AFP]
Tunisia
MENA
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Five Islamist convicts escape from Tunisian jail

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
31 October, 2023
Ain al-Hilweh
MENA
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Lebanon's Sidon a 'ghost town' amid Ain al-Hilweh fighting

Louay Faour
12 September, 2023
Lebanon
MENA
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Ain al-Hilweh: Fatah member killed in overnight clashes

The New Arab Staff
03 August, 2023
Algeria
MENA
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Algeria says army officer killed in clash with Islamists

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
11 May, 2023
Sudan's Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan
Sudan
MENA
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Sudan leader Burhan warns against interference in military

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
13 November, 2022
Al-Shabaab militants
Al Shabaab
MENA
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Somali government plans shutdown on 'Al-Shabaab propaganda'

The New Arab Staff
09 October, 2022
The Kremlin in Moscow
Mali
World
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Mali jihadists claim captured mercenary from Russia's Wagner

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
25 April, 2022
kais saied
Tunisia
MENA
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Ennahda calls for probe into Saied 'assassination plot'

The New Arab Staff
23 August, 2021
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Western Sahara
MENA
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Islamist party says not responsible for Morocco-Israel normalisation

The New Arab Staff
19 February, 2021