Several Dead In Attack On Mogadishu Army Camp
A suicide bomber detonated his vest inside a military training camp in Mogadishu on Monday, a day after an attack ...
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Pressed In Iraq and Syria, IS Lashes Out In Egypt
The twin bombings of churches in Egypt suggest that Islamic State group jihadists are lashing out as they find themselves ...
New Somali Army Chief Escapes Deadly Car Bombing
Somalia's new army chief escaped a car bombing Sunday that killed at least five people in a bloody response by ...
Five Suspected Al Shabaab Militants Executed In Somalia For Killing Officials
The court said the accused were members of the al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab militant group Somalia’s semi-autonomous Puntland region on ...
Somaliland Court Jails Journalist Two Years For
National Union of Somali Journalists said the ruling was a threat to independent media A court in Somalia’s breakaway region ...
Mali’s Defense Minister Named As New Prime Minister
Mali’s President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita replaced his prime minister late on Saturday, naming the defense minister to head the government ...
Bangladesh Islamists To Hang After President Rejects Pleas
A top Islamist extremist under sentence of death has lost his last hope of avoiding the gallows after Bangladesh's president ...
Mali, France Rule Out Talks With Jihadists After Attacks
France and Mali on Friday ruled out any talks with jihadist groups responsible for repeated attacks on Malian and foreign ...
Five Dead In Jihadist Attack In Mali
A Tuareg-led group in Mali said five of its fighters were killed Saturday in an attack blamed on jihadists, a ...
Strike Kills 18 Civilians In Syria’s Idlib
An air strike killed 18 civilians including five children in Syria's northwestern province of Idlib on Saturday, the Syrian Observatory ...
One Dead In Raid On Syria ‘chemical Attack’ Town
One woman was killed in an air strike Saturday on the Syrian town of Khan Sheikhun, site of a suspected ...
Iran’s Rouhani Says Trump Abetting Syria ‘terrorists’
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Saturday that "terrorists" were applauding his US counterpart Donald Trump for launching a missile ...
Congress May Be Focus of Debate On US Force Against Syria
Many US lawmakers expressed support immediately after the Pentagon's air strikes on Syria. But President Donald Trump's backers and critics ...
Al-Shabab Dismisses Somali President War Declaration
Al-Shabab says President Farmajo's, centre-left, threats to defeat them are not new Somali Islamist militant group al-Shabab has dismissed President ...
Al-Shabab Fighters Offered Amnesty As New Somali President Declares War
Somalia’s new president has offered al-Shabab militants a 60-day amnesty amid a declaration of war on the group. Fighters who ...
Accident Theory In Syria Attack ‘fanciful’
Chemical weapons experts have thrown doubt on Russian claims the attack that killed more than 80 civilians in rebel-held Syria ...
Somalia Leader Declares Country A ‘war Zone’
Somalia's new president has declared the country a war zone and instructed the army to prepare a new offensive against ...
Russia Says Its Support For Syria’s Bashar Al Assad Is ‘not Unconditional’
Russia has said its support for Syrian president Bashar al Assad is "not unconditional" in the wake of a suspected ...
Al-Shabab Fighters Offered Amnesty As New Somali President Declares War
Somalia's new president has offered al-Shabab militants a 60-day amnesty amid a declaration of war on the group. Fighters who ...
Somali President Declares New War On Shabaab, Offers Amnesty
Somalia's new President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed on Thursday declared war against Shabaab extremists, offering amnesty to militants who surrendered within ...