Two rebel groups that seized nothern Mali two months ago agree to merge and turn their territory into an Islamist state, both sides say.

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Mali rebels agree to Sharia state

Abdelmonen Abol Fotoh, an independent moderate Islamist candidate for the Egyptian presidency, and one many tip to become the country's first freely elected leader, if he gets through this week's first round of voting, has been a busy man these last weeks.

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Religious pragmatist next Egypt leader?

Presidential election pits Islamists against secularists.

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Egypt Preps for Historic Vote

ISLAMABAD — Pakistan’s telecommunications regulators shut down Twitter for about eight hours Sunday because the social networking site would not remove content the government found objectionable to Muslims, but the nation’s prime minister stepped in to reverse the ban, officials said. Read full article > >

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Pakistan blocks, then restores, Twitter access

Somali government soldiers are among five people killed in two bomb attacks in the capital Mogadishu blamed on al-Shabab Islamist fighters.

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Bombs kill soldiers in Mogadishu

The UN chief Ban Ki-moon says that Islamist militants from al-Qaeda must be behind two recent devastating suicide car bomb attacks in Syria.

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Ban: Al-Qaeda behind Syria blasts

CAIRO — A year after an attack by ultraconservative Muslims raised the spectre of a wave of religious strife in Egypt, the Christian churches in Cairo’s Imbaba district have been repaired, with sturdy wooden rafters, fresh paint and portraits of the Virgin Mary and Jesus ready to be hung anew. But the deep wounds from those attacks and ensuing clashes, which left 12 dead, cannot be painted over. Read full article > >

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Coptic Christians fear rise of Islamists on eve of presidential elections

Nigerian police say they have arrested a senior commander of the Islamist militant group Boko Haram in the troubled northern city of Kano.

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‘Militant leader’ held in Nigeria

A video from a shadowy Islamist group, al-Nusra, says it carried out bomb attacks in the Syrian capital Damascus which killed 55 on Thursday.

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Islamists claim Damascus blasts

The US military and ‘total war’ on Islam?

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The US military and ‘total war’ on Islam?

A British man accused of links to Somalia’s Islamist extremists appears in court at his trial for allegedly plotting a bomb attack in Kenya.

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Briton in court over Kenya plot

Salamworld, a social networking site with Islamic influences, is due to launch in July with the hope of challenging Facebook’s supremacy.

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Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram posts a video saying it is responsible for last week’s bombing of a major newspaper and warns other media attacks.

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Boko Haram claims attack on paper

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan— The United States resumed drone missile strikes against Pakistan-based militants Sunday for the first time since the nation’s parliament demanded an end to such attacks as one of several conditions for fully normalizing relations with the United States. Read full article > >

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U.S. drone strikes resume in Pakistan; action may complicate vital negotiations

A court in Egypt upholds a three-month prison sentence handed to leading comic actor Adel Imam, convicted of insulting Islam in his films and plays.

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Egypt comedian’s sentence upheld