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Yesterday, the Islamic State claimed that AQIM's entire Al Ansar Battalion in Algeria had defected. In a statement released online today, AQIM responds by saying that fewer than 10 fighters from the battalion have joined Abu Bakr al Baghdadi's cause.
This is the second video released by ISGS' Katibat Salahadin in the span of a week, marking a significant uptick in social media activity for the jihadist group.
After killing at least 14 civilians in a landmine explosion last week, al Qaeda's Group for Support of Islam and Muslim's offers a rare apology.
Abu Yasir al-Jaza'iri, an Algerian ideologue in al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, offers the group's harshest rebuke of the Islamic State to date.
Sami al-Uraydi, a Jordanian national and senior leader within al-Qaeda's official branch in Syria, has been designated.