Seven north African states held talks Tuesday in Algeria to plan a coordinated response to Al-Qaeda following a dangerous rise in the terror threat in the Sahara-Sahel region, officials said. The conference "indicates our shared will to take adequate and suitable steps in a coordinated manner" in response to the terror threat "which has seen dangerous developments," said Algerian ...

ALGIERS (Reuters) - Algeria is to host a meeting of foreign ministers from Sahara desert states this week to try to hammer out a joint plan of action for tackling the growing threat from al Qaeda insurgents, officials said. The insurgents have been kidnapping Westerners and launching bomb attacks, exploiting the Sahara's vast empty spaces, porous borders and a lack ...

Algeria is to host foreign ministers from the Sahara and Sahel on Tuesday for talks on fighting "a resurgence" in acts of terror, the Algerian Foreign Ministry said Saturday. Ministers from Burkina Faso, Chad, Libya, Mali, Mauritania and Niger are due to take part in the conference, the ministry said in a statement quoted by Algerian news agency APS. In ...

Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb claimed Friday a suicide bombing raid on a military outpost in western Niger earlier this week that killed five soldiers and three attackers, monitors said. A Malian security source had previously singled out the Algerian extremist group that has aligned itself with Al-Qaeda as having masterminded the attack, which took place close to the Niger-Mali ...