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Sunday 19 May

A group of armed Islamists gathered in Gao, the biggest city in northern Mali, on September 21. A complex web of rebel groups has controlled northern Mali since seizing it in the wake of a March 22 coup, but the main enemy facing a proposed regional military force would be Al-Qaeda's north African branch.

Bulletin: Al-Qaeda main threat as lines between Mali Islamists fade

Bulletin: Al-Qaeda main threat as lines between Mali Islamists fade

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Islamist fighters stand guard near Gao airport, August 2012. With his finger on the trigger and a menacing look, a 14-year-old recruit ordered a vehicle to pull over on the road from the Niger border to Gao, the biggest city in northern Mali, now under control of Islamist armed groups.

Bulletin: Islamist fighters ready for battle in north Mali

Bulletin: Islamist fighters ready for battle in north Mali

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Islamists rebels are pictured in April 2012 near Timbuktu, in rebel-held northern Mali. The Islamist rebels who have seized northern Mali are committing increasingly grave abuses in their pursuit to impose strict Islamic law, Human Rights Watch said.

Bulletin: Islamists in northern Mali 'increasingly repressive': HRW

Bulletin: Islamists in northern Mali 'increasingly repressive': HRW

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Fighters of the Islamic group of Mujao stand guard near Gao airport, August 2012. Mali's government must apply Islamic sharia law before armed Islamist groups who control the north of the country will negotiate.

Bulletin: Islamists say Mali must apply sharia before talks

Bulletin: Islamists say Mali must apply sharia before talks

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Members of a Protestant church and relatives of Pierre Legrand, one of the six French hostages held by Al-Qaeda in North Africa, pose under a banner in front of a church on September 17 in Nantes, western France.

Bulletin: Al-Qaeda in North Africa threatens to kill French hostages

Bulletin: Al-Qaeda in North Africa threatens to kill French hostages

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Malian troops patrol in 2011, three weeks after a military raid dislodged AQIM from its newly-built base in the Wagoudou forest. Al-Qaeda's North Africa branch has confirmed the death in a road accident of an Algerian member who coordinated its operations in northern Mali, the SITE Intelligence Group said on Sunday.

Bulletin: Al-Qaeda confirms Algeria militant's death

Bulletin: Al-Qaeda confirms Algeria militant's death

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Tunisian soldiers guard the US embassy building in Tunis. Al-Qaeda called for fresh attacks against US targets in the Arab world and the West, as Washington said it was pulling non-essential embassy staff out of Sudan and Tunisia.

Bulletin: Qaeda says Benghazi attack 'revenge' for leader's death

Bulletin: Qaeda says Benghazi attack 'revenge' for leader's death

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Fighters of Islamic group the Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa (MUJAO), an Al-Qaeda offshoot, stand guard near Gao in August. An Algerian leader of Al-Qaeda in north Africa, who coordinated operations in northern Mali, was killed in a road accident between Gao and Timbuktu, Islamists in the region said Monday. "Nabil Makloufi was called to God on Saturday night." a spokesman said.

Bulletin: Algerian Al-Qaeda figure killed in Mali crash: Islamists

Bulletin: Algerian Al-Qaeda figure killed in Mali crash: Islamists

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Security forces in Algeria have killed 10 militants presumed to be members of Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb in separate operations, press reports on Saturday cited the defence ministry as saying.

Bulletin: Algerian army kills 10 Qaeda militants: reports

Bulletin: Algerian army kills 10 Qaeda militants: reports

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Some 300 Malian civilians receive military training from an army instructor on August 20 at a camp near the central city of Mopti to fight Islamists who have been occupying the north of the country for the last five months.

Bulletin: 32 civilians detained after training for Mali conflict

Bulletin: 32 civilians detained after training for Mali conflict

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