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News updates from November 27: Israel-Hamas truce extended by two days, Qatar says, Fast-fashion group Shein files confidential IPO paperwork in US
Israel-Hamas truce extended by two days, Qatar says
...“Qatar announces, as part of the ongoing mediation, an agreement has been reached to extend the humanitarian truce for an additional two days in the Gaza Strip,” Majed al-Ansar, spokesperson for the Qatari...
November 27, 2023
Houthi movement
‘Thank God for the Houthis’: why Arab world is backing Yemen rebels
...The Yemeni movement, also known as Ansar Allah, was initially led by members of the Houthi tribe who belong to the Zaydi Shia sect....
January 26, 2024
FT Live
The Global Boardroom: 8th Edition
FT journalists in conversation with leaders in business and government
Wednesday, 4 DecemberDigital Conference
United Arab Emirates
Yemen’s Houthi rebels strike UAE
...“I read it [Monday’s attack] as a warning from Ansar Allah/the Houthis to the UAE — basically saying stop supporting these offensives on us or we can hit you even harder....
January 17, 2022
Mali
Mali violence escalates as peace accords crumble
...For instance, CMA includes a group that was once closely tied to the al-Qaeda-linked Ansar Dine, a jihadist group that took over the north....
March 15, 2020
Letter
Houthis’ conditions for Yemen talks were not met
...Referring to the failed peace talks in Geneva between the internationally recognised Yemeni government and the Houthis, your reporters Nasser al-Sakkaf and Andrew England indicate that these would have been...
September 20, 2018
French politics
Emmanuel Macron seeks more EU funding for southern Sahara campaign
...allegiance to al-Qaeda....
February 22, 2018
FT Live
Africa Summit
Africa in a complex world
Tuesday, 29 OctoberLondon, UK
News in-depthThe Big Read
Yemen: Trapped in crossfire of regional power struggle
...The group, also known as Ansar Allah, launched armed campaigns against the regime of Ali Abdullah Saleh, who was also a Zaydi....
January 11, 2018
World
At least 18 killed in restaurant attack in Burkina Faso
...However, he added that neither Ansar ul Islam, an extremist group based in Burkina Faso established by a local radical preacher Ibrahim Malam Dicko, nor Isis could be ruled out....
August 14, 2017
News in-depthThe Big Read
Egypt’s Copts keep the faith in the fight against Isis
...The group is an evolution of a faction made up mainly of Sinai radicals who swore allegiance to Isis in 2014 and changed its name from Ansar Beit al-Maqdis to Wilayat Sinai, or Sinai Province....
July 11, 2017
Banks
Iranian banks give Revolutionary Guard the cold shoulder
...Businesses linked to the guards have built roads, bridges, jetties and dams, developed oil and gasfields, run the national telecom companies and own at least two banks — Ansar and Mehr....
September 18, 2016
World
Twenty hostages killed in Dhaka restaurant siege
...Many of these killings were claimed by Isis or Ansar al-Islam, a Bangladeshi group said to be linked to al-Qaeda....
July 3, 2016
US politics & policy
World powers agree to arm Libyan government
...The GNA also wanted to do more to combat extremist groups such as Ansar al-sharia and al-Qaeda in the Maghreb, the US official said....
May 16, 2016
Q&AWorld
What is at stake in Libya talks?
...Isis has allies such as the Ansar al-Sharia network, but it also has opponents among local jihadi groups. In June, Isis was kicked out of the eastern town of Derna by an al-Qaeda linked group....
December 11, 2015
Syrian crisis
Cultural ‘war crime’ suspect sent to International Criminal Court
...The court said the suspect, Ahmad al-Mahdi al-Faqi, had been handed over by the government of Mali’s neighbour, Niger, and was in custody in The Hague....
September 27, 2015
News in-depthThe Big Read
Isis in Libya: Stoking conflict
...Key leaders of Ansar al-sharia, the once-dominant jihadi group, have also defected....
March 20, 2016
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival: U.S. edition
Where the Financial Times weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 4 MayThe REACH, at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, F Street Northwest, Washington, DC, USA
World
Egypt crash: Who is Sinai Province?
...Following the ousting of Mohamed Morsi, the elected Islamist president, in 2013 the jihadis, by then calling themselves Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis, or Supporters of Jerusalem, declared that the army and police...
November 5, 2015
US presidential election
US targets Algerian militant in Libya air strike
...It said senior militant leaders, including Belmokhtar, were understood to have been meeting at the farm identified as belonging to al-Saadi al-Nofali, a local Ansar leader....
June 15, 2015
FT Photo DiaryWorld
Fighters on the road to Damascus
...Opposition fighters belonging to the Islamist group Ansar al-Islam and the Ahrar ash-Sham (Islamic Movement of the Free Men of the Levant) group walk on a street next to the front line that divides rebel...
June 15, 2015
World
UK and Russia at odds over causes of Sharm el-Sheikh plane crash
...He noted that the crash happened a year after the Sinai militants, who had previously operated under the name Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis, pledged allegiance to Isis....
November 5, 2015
World
Suicide bomber strikes at Karnak temple in southern Egypt
...Militants from Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, an affiliate of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (Isis), have killed hundreds of Egyptian police and soldiers, mainly in northeastern Sinai, the group’s base...
June 10, 2015
World
Tripoli authority sacks prime minister
...Mr Hassi had emerged as the face of the Islamist-leaning authority in Tripoli but became a liability once he publicly praised predecessor groups of Isis, including the UN-listed terror group Ansar al-Sharia...
March 31, 2015
World
Houthi rebels defy Saudi air raids to advance on Aden
...Mohammad al-Bukhaiti, a council member of the Houthi militia Ansar Allah, said his forces were braced for a Saudi-led regional intervention, though observers believe such a move is not imminent....
March 30, 2015
Israel-Hamas war
Hamas seeks to stamp out Isis in Gaza
...Hamas last fought openly with local Salafis in 2009, when the leader of one group, Jund Ansar Allah, declared the establishment of an Islamic emirate in Gaza....
June 1, 2015
World
Egypt’s top prosecutor killed in car bomb
...Bayt al-Maqdis, released a video of the attack on the three judges....
June 29, 2015
Libya in transition
Head of Libya’s Islamist-backed government rejects dismissal
...But he became a liability once he publicly praised predecessor groups of Isis, including the UN-listed terror group Ansar al-Sharia — describing such extremist militants as partners in efforts by his National...
April 1, 2015

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