AS Let me give you a live example.

AS Yes, there is and it is that we share the same problems.

AS Jayatri brought with her a horde of inspiration for similar women like her.

AS For me all of them are inspiring.

Hassan was also threatened by al Shabab.

AS I learnt two important lessons

AS So far we have made progress in several aspects.

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They had all been attacked by al Shabab multiple times, they said.

AS I have been thinking of making short films on each of their lives.

Months later, Jabhat Fath al Sham, tried to rebrand itself once again.

These negotiations were unsuccessful, and Ahrar al Sham resumed the attack and escalation.

And Canadian officials say they've intercepted or intervened in a number of cases involving Canadian youths set to join the Somalia based militant organization al Shabaab.

Then last year, al Shabab bombed the house where Abuukar s wife and child were living.

AS It started with the premise that Africa is growing both with people and countries.

AS For me there s no difference between a glamorous model and a burn survivor.

Asif Sheikh (AS) I am 5th generation Kenyan, but was away for 20 years.

But these precautions haven t shielded her from frequent death threats from al Shabab by phone and text.

That is why they have made Islam s holy shrines on Jerusalem s Temple Mount (Haram al Sharif to Muslims) into icons of their rebellion.

For example, on April 2, 2015, Al Shabaab militants attacked the Garissa University College in Kenya, killing 148 people.

Al Jolani appeared on camera for the first time to announce that the group's name has also changed to Jabhat Fath al Sham.

Abuukar s troubles started in 2008 when al Shabab kidnapped him after he refused to work for their media outlet, Radio Koran.

AS After this incident, I went to magazines and put forward my ideas to feature a burn survivor but initially nobody supported.

Hezbollah, backed by Iran, immediately moved to the negotiations table with the Ahrar al Sham brigade (an Islamic brigade fighting in Syria, composed of Syrian fighters only).

Arjun Shah (AS) I was office bound in a public bus when a group of boys and girls started giggling at a lady covering her face with a shawl.

A statement was issued by the group on January 28 announcing it had merged with four other smaller Jihadist groups to form a new alliance, Hayat Tahrir al Sham, or HTS.

It only took a few months after the elections in 2013 for al Shabaab to make its presence known with the horrific events at the Westgate Shopping Centre that left 67 people dead.

He and two other Somali journalists had come to Greece to seek asylum, he said, because they have each been targeted by the extremist group, al Shabab, in Mogadishu.

Security One important similarity between the 2017 and 2013 election environments is the absence of either terrorism and the militant group al Shabaab or the fact that Kenya remains at war in Somalia as a campaign issue.

But terrorism and insecurity remain a constant threat in Kenya, and groups like al Shabaab and others may look to undermine and influence the election outcome in the weeks leading up to August 8, or even in the days after.

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Abu Majid had lost two family members on the battlefields, the last of which was Oubada Abullaith, his son in law, a military leader in the Thowar Al Sham battalion, which fights under the Free Syrian Army.

Al Shabab is known for targeting journalists in their homes, so to protect herself and her family, she lived in a safe house with other female journalists for the last five years.

Are French lives more precious than their own brothers and sisters who are killed daily by home grown terrorists like the satanic Boko Haram and Al Shabab.

AS Obviously we are using our own platform to showcase and if we can have a snowball effect it will have millions of Africans sharing and accessing each others' information.

Ahrar al Sham was authorized by all brigades to head the negotiations which happened with out any presence of the regime, as if this matter is none of its concerns or one that it has no saying in.

Among them is recognized journalist and influential blogger Yassin Juma, who supporters believe was targeted for his coverage of a recent attack on a Kenya Defence Forces camp in El Adde, Somalia by the violent extremist group Al Shabaab.

The ministry recalled how, on August 2, the grounds of the Russian Embassy in Damascus were subjected to mortar fire, for the third time in a month, at the hands of the Hay at Tahrir al Sham (the former al Nusra Front, banned in Russia) and the Faylaq al Rahman terrorist groups.

We declare the complete cancellation of all operations under the name of Jabhat al Nusra, and the formation of a new group operating under the name 'Jabhat Fath al Sham', noting that this new organisation has no affiliation to any external entity, Joulani said.