Tag: al-qaeda

Libyan military strongman Khalifa Haftar on Wednesday announced the "total liberation" of second city Benghazi, which was overrun by jihadists ...

The US military conducted an airstrike against a group of Shabaab militants in Somalia early Wednesday, officials said, the third ...

Forces loyal to east Libya strongman Khalifa Haftar said Wednesday they have cornered the last jihadists in a neighbourhood of ...

Powerbrokers Russia, Iran and Turkey sought Wednesday to hammer out a plan for four safe zones in Syria at a ...

Saudi Arabia and three other Arab states have extended the deadline for Qatar to accept a list of demands or ...

French President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday threw his weight behind a planned Sahel force to fight jihadists on a lightning ...

A drone strike likely to have been carried out by the United States killed two suspected Al-Qaeda members in southern ...

A health worker who had been immunising children against polio was shot dead in Pakistan's northwestern province Saturday, the provincial ...

Bangladesh police have arrested three female members of an Islamist extremist group blamed for the deadly Dhaka café siege, officials ...

French President Emmanuel Macron arrived in Mali on Sunday to consolidate Western backing for a regional anti-jihadist force, with France ...

Al-Qaeda's Mali branch has released a proof-of-life video of six foreign hostages, including elderly Australian surgeon Arthur Kenneth Elliott and ...

Sudan insisted on Saturday that it respected media and religious freedoms after the United States said it was "very concerned" ...

President Emmanuel Macron is due in Mali on Sunday to consolidate Western backing for a regional anti-jihadist force, as France ...

The United States remains "very concerned" about Sudan's human rights record given the restrictions on religious and media freedoms in ...

Seven Lebanese soldiers were wounded on Friday as five militants blew themselves up and a sixth threw a grenade during ...

The Ghana Catholic Bishops Conference has reiterated calls for the the government to send back the two Guantanamo Bay detainees ...

Six soldiers were killed in Yemen on Thursday, a military source said, as government forces seek to cement their control ...

Gunmen attacked a UN convoy on Wednesday near Zawiyah, about 50 kilometres (30 miles) west of the Libyan capital, a ...

A South African who has been held hostage by Al-Qaeda in Mali since 2011 is alive and well, his father ...

Eight people, including four children returning to school after Eid celebrations, were killed Tuesday by a roadside bomb in eastern ...