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• Al Qaeda identifies fighters behind attack in Burkina Faso

  Al Qaeda released a statement naming three attackers responsible for an attack in Burkina Faso, West Africa. The raid on Friday last week left 29 people dead with mostly westerners.

• Islamic State says France remains top target

  Islamic State claimed responsibility on Saturday for attacks that killed 127 people in Paris, saying it sent militants strapped with suicide bombing belts and carrying machine guns to various locations in the heart of the capital.

• Gunman in Mohammad cartoon attack in Texas monitored for years

  Federal agents for years monitored one of the two gunmen who were shot dead after opening fire with assault rifles at a heavily guarded Texas exhibit of caricatures of the Prophet Mohammad.

• Police arrest four suspected Islamist militants in Spain

  Spanish police arrested four people on Saturday in its North African enclave of Ceuta suspected of belonging to a militant Islamist network, the interior ministry said.

• Yemen's al Qaeda renews calls for lone-wolf attacks in West

  Nasser bin Ali al-Ansi, an official with al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), based in Yemen, has urged Muslims to carry out lone-wolf strikes in Western countries two weeks after his group said it was behind the Paris attacks, SITE Monitoring reported.

• Paris shooting cases demonstrate spy agencies' limits

  This week's deadly attacks in France by Islamist gunmen showed the limits of spy and anti-terrorist agencies, which often have information about perpetrators in advance but are only able to assemble all the clues after the bloodletting has taken place.

• At haj, Saudi Arabia clerics step up anti-Islamic State drive

  Taking aim at Islamic State, Saudi Arabia has mounted a battle for hearts and minds at this year's haj, warning pilgrims that the hardline group is "evil" and seeking to recruit their children to fight in Iraq and Syria.

• China sentences four for explosives, bid for 'jihad': report

  China has sentenced four people to up to 20 years in jail for "plotting terror attacks", state media said, the latest in a wave of rulings as the government accelerates a crackdown on what it says is violence fueled by Islamist militants.