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Al-Qaeda, alternatively spelled al-Qaida and sometimes al-Qa'ida, (Arabic: القاعدة‎; al-qāʿidah; translation: The

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$The manager of a travel agency sits in front of the shop\'s close door in Agadez, a tourist city in northern Niger, on September 24, 2010. Charter flights to the city have been cancelled since the kidnapping of a group of expatriate workers employed by the French group Areva by the Al-Qaeda Organization in the Islamic Maghreb (AQMI) in Arlit, Niger, one week ago.$

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Tunisian soldiers patrol on June 11, 2013 in the Mount Chaambi region where the Tunisian army has been tracking militants the government says are veterans of the Islamist rebellion in northern Mali with links to Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb. A shepherd was wounded by an explosive device in the Tunisian region of Mount Chaambi near Algeria, becoming the first civilian casualties in this zone one undermined by a group linked to Al-Qaeda.

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$Burkina Faso President Blaise Compaore meets the Bamako and Tuareg delegations in the presence of United Nations, African Union and European Union representatives, on June 10, 2013, at the presidential palace in Ouagadougou. Mali\'s government has been struggling to reestablish its authority over all of the west African country after a March 2012 coup in Bamako created a power vacuum that saw Al-Qaeda linked Islamists and Tuareg rebels overrun the north. Burkina Faso\'s mediators hosting talks between Mali\'s government and armed Tuareg rebels said on June 10 they hoped for an agreement to enable elections to be held next month.$

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$Algerians wave a national flag and display President Abdelazziz Bouteflika\'s portrait, as they shout anti-terrorism slogans during a protest gathering held in Algiers City, 17 April 2007. Some 6.000 Algerian protesters demonstrated against the alleged 11th of April suicide attacks in Algiers that killed 33 and wounded hundreds others. Last Wednesday\'s attacks were claimed by an Algerian islamist militant movement formerly known as the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC), but which now identifies itself as Al-Qaeda\'s branch in North Africa.$

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Algerian protesters sit under a portrait of Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika 09 September 2007 during an anti-terrorism protest gathering held in Algiers City. Tens of thousands of Algerians took part in protests against terrorism after two suicide bomb attacks in recent days claimed by an Al-Qaeda offshoot killed at least 52 people.

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A arts and crafts seller stands in front of the Old Mosque of Agadez in the northern Niger tourist city on September 24, 2010. Charter flights to the city have been cancelled since the kidnapping of a group of expatriate workers employed by the French group Areva by the Al-Qaeda Organization in the Islamic Maghreb (AQMI) in Arlit, Niger, one week ago.

A arts and crafts seller stands in front of the Old Mosque of Agadez in the northern Niger tourist city on September 24, 2010. Charter flights to the city have been cancelled since the kidnapping of a group of expatriate workers employed by the French group Areva by the Al-Qaeda Organization in the Islamic Maghreb (AQMI) in Arlit, Niger, one week ago.

The manager of a travel agency sits in front of the shop's close door in Agadez, a tourist city in northern Niger, on September 24, 2010. Charter flights to the city have been cancelled since the kidnapping of a group of expatriate workers employed by the French group Areva by the Al-Qaeda Organization in the Islamic Maghreb (AQMI) in Arlit, Niger, one week ago.

Tunisian soldiers patrol on June 11, 2013 in the Mount Chaambi region where the Tunisian army has been tracking militants the government says are veterans of the Islamist rebellion in northern Mali with links to Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb. A shepherd was wounded by an explosive device in the Tunisian region of Mount Chaambi near Algeria, becoming the first civilian casualties in this zone one undermined by a group linked to Al-Qaeda.

Burkina Faso President Blaise Compaore meets the Bamako and Tuareg delegations in the presence of United Nations, African Union and European Union representatives, on June 10, 2013, at the presidential palace in Ouagadougou. Mali's government has been struggling to reestablish its authority over all of the west African country after a March 2012 coup in Bamako created a power vacuum that saw Al-Qaeda linked Islamists and Tuareg rebels overrun the north. Burkina Faso's mediators hosting talks between Mali's government and armed Tuareg rebels said on June 10 they hoped for an agreement to enable elections to be held next month.

Algerians wave a national flag and display President Abdelazziz Bouteflika's portrait, as they shout anti-terrorism slogans during a protest gathering held in Algiers City, 17 April 2007. Some 6.000 Algerian protesters demonstrated against the alleged 11th of April suicide attacks in Algiers that killed 33 and wounded hundreds others. Last Wednesday's attacks were claimed by an Algerian islamist militant movement formerly known as the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC), but which now identifies itself as Al-Qaeda's branch in North Africa.

Algerian protesters sit under a portrait of Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika 09 September 2007 during an anti-terrorism protest gathering held in Algiers City. Tens of thousands of Algerians took part in protests against terrorism after two suicide bomb attacks in recent days claimed by an Al-Qaeda offshoot killed at least 52 people.

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