KANO, Nigeria: The leader of Nigeria’s Ansaru jihadist group, a Boko Haram splinter group ideologically aligned to al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, has been arrested, an army spokesman said on Sunday.

Khalid al-Barnawi is one of three Nigerians listed by Washington in 2012 as “specially designated global terrorists.”

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