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Elisabeth Braw
How tolerance makes nations vulnerable
...As generative AI advances, spreading credible-looking falsehoods will become even easier. Monitoring foreign disinformation, as Sweden does, is vital — but monitoring is not enough....
August 10, 2023
Life & Arts
$450m Leonardo painting ‘acquired’ for Louvre Abu Dhabi
...His collection includes works by Chinese artist Ai Weiwei and other notable names, he added....
December 8, 2017
FT Live
Future of AI
Igniting a new era of innovation and investment
Wednesday, 6 NovemberLondon. 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
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
FT Live
The Global Boardroom: 8th Edition
FT journalists in conversation with leaders in business and government
Wednesday, 4 DecemberDigital Conference
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
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
The FT ViewWorld
West has an obligation to the people of Tunisia
...But extremist groups such as al-Qaeda and Ansar al-sharia also run long-established local cells....
March 19, 2015
Middle Eastern politics & society
Yemen on brink of civil war, warns UN
...Ansar al-Sharia, Aqap’s main arm, claimed the attack in a statement on Twitter, accusing the army of having links to Houthi fighters in the capital....
February 12, 2015
David Gardner
The hideous dialectic of Isis savagery
...In Egypt’s ungoverned Sinai peninsula, the jihadis of Ansar Beit al-Maqdis — responsible for a string of bloody attacks on security forces — have declared themselves the Sinai Province of Isis....
February 18, 2015
World
Q&A: Who are Yemen’s Houthis?
...The Houthis, also known as Ansar Allah (Partisans of God), take their name from their founding members in the al-Houthi clan....
January 21, 2015
World
Syrian jihad lures disaffected Tunisian youth into foreign war
...Led by Abou Iyadh, a former al-Qaeda fighter, and aided by the release of hundreds of radicals from prison, Ansar al-Sharia took advantage of the new freedoms to seize control of hundreds of mosques and...
November 2, 2014
World
UAE blacklists 83 groups as terrorists
...The UAE also blacklisted jihadi groups operating worldwide, including Isis, Ahrar al-Sham and Jabhat al-Nusra in Syria and Iraq. It also named Ansar al-sharia in Libya and Boko Haram in Nigeria....
November 16, 2014
Global InsightBorzou Daragahi
Libyan strife highlights the perils of even-handedness
...They singled out for criticism the jihadi group Ansar al-Sharia, which has increasingly embraced the ideology and methodology of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, or Isis, as well as the forces under...
October 27, 2014
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
Houthi rebels consolidate control of Yemen capital
...The group largely follows the Zaydi sect of Shia Islam which is distinct from the type of Shiism practised in Iran....
September 22, 2014
FT Magazine
The front-line fight against Isis
...More than 2,500 men of the Ansar Marjaiyeh, or Soldiers of the Religious Leadership, belong to the volunteer unit....
March 6, 2015
Life & Arts
Artefacts under attack
...It was only in 2012 that their future looked in question when Islamist extremists from the Ansar Dine group swept across Mali’s north, capturing most of the main towns alongside allied extremists from al-Qaeda...
March 13, 2015
World
Iraq’s Maliki blasts Kurds in hard-hitting speech
...A precursor to Isis, Ansar al-Islam, terrorised Kurds for years along the Iranian border....
July 9, 2014
News in-depthThe Big Read
Tunisia: Pointing ahead
...Ansar al-Sharia, the radical group that at one time said violent jihad should not be practised inside Tunisia, has changed its tune since being outlawed in 2013....
January 19, 2015
World
Sinai jihadi group emerges at forefront of Egypt violence
...Ansar Beit al-Maqdis (ABM), or the Supporters of Jerusalem, is an al-Qaeda-linked organisation based in the mountainous deserts of the Sinai Peninsula....
January 31, 2014
The FT ViewWorld
War within Islam
...Moreover, the civil war in Syria has been attracting recruits from north Africa, including hundreds of Tunisians, a “jihad” that has been encouraged by Ansar al-Sharia....
May 21, 2013
Middle East protests
Tunisia cracks down on Ansar al-sharia militants after clashes
...of Islam....
May 12, 2013
FT Magazine
Timbuktu: the day the Islamists came to town
...; Ansar Dine (Defenders of the Faith) was a Tuareg-led movement....
August 23, 2013
Middle East protests
Radical Islamists unite under new name
...All are calling themselves Ansar al-Sharia – Partisans of Islamic law....
September 27, 2012

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