US Offers Bounty for African Militants

The United States is offering rewards of up to $18 million for information leading to the capture of four Islamist militants operating in north and west Africa. The State Department said Friday the four were all involved in either the kidnapping of foreigners or attacks on Western targets. It says three of the men have ties to the group al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb, which operates across a region that includes Nigeria, Niger and Mauritania. It describes two of those men (Hamad el...

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