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France has so far ruled out joining the U.S.-led airstrikes in Syria against the Islamic State group.

Obama, speaking at the UN, asked the world to join together to fight the militants and vowed to keep up military pressure against them.

Jund al-Khilafah's beheading video of Hervé Gourdel closely resembled beheadings carried out by ISIS.

An al Qaeda splinter group named Jound al Khilafa, or "Soldiers of the caliphate," claimed responsibility for the abduction.

Al Qaeda dismissed as "lies" a U.S. assessment that it is in decline, but a defiant online message issued by the network on Sunday made no mention of the ultra-hardline Islamic State group widely seen as its rival for the leadership of global jihad.

The new group, reportedly named "soldiers of the Caliphate in Algeria," accused al Qaeda of “deviating from the true path.”

Major gas finds in Mozambique and Tanzania in particular could spur an East African boom, if countries can overcome production challenges.

The chief of Ford’s new Middle East-Africa unit stopped short of confirming rumors of a Nigerian factory project.

Turkey is a major buyer of Western military hardware, but its defense industry is rising.

FT Sistemas S.A. says it’s sending the Horus FT-100 Mini-UAV to an unnamed buyer across the Atlantic.

American and African economists, politicians, business and nonprofit leaders are convening this week to discuss Africa's economic growth.

A team of experts is headed to Mail to aid in an ongoing investigation.

A rebel group pledged to help secure the site, but the French forces they've been fighting since last year are also at the scene.

French officials ruled out an attack by militants in the airplane crash, which killed 116 people on Thursday.

The plane crashed in a remote region of Mali, near the Burkina Faso border, known for sporadic outbreaks of separatist violence.

The Air Algerie flight was traveling over a region controlled by Islamist militants, though France doubts the plane was shot down.

This MD-80 was used by Greek, Colombian, Belgian and Argentinian airways before Algeria.

Air Algerie Flight 5017 was flying over a disputed region of Mali, where al Qaeda-linked jihadists and government forces have been fighting.

An Algerian official has confirmed that Air Algerie Flight AH5017, which went missing between Burkina Faso and Algiers, has crashed.

An Air Algerie plane, with 116 people on board, is believed to have crashed in a remote region near the Algeria-Mali border.

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