Tag: Contemporary history

At least 20 policemen were killed in Taliban ambushes in southern Afghanistan, officials said, as security forces sought to dislodge ...

Five young Bangladeshis accused of being Islamist militants surrendered to authorities Sunday, an official said, after a lengthy siege that ...

At least 20 Afghan policemen were killed early Sunday when Taliban fighters stormed multiple security outposts in the volatile southern ...

Eleven members of an Afghan family, mostly women and children, were killed Friday when their vehicle hit a roadside bomb ...

The Palestinians are taking seriously Donald Trump's efforts to help resolve the Israel-Palestinian conflict, a minister said Thursday, ahead of ...

International leaders are gathering in London on Thursday to thrash out agreements with Somalia aimed at stabilising the country under ...

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said Wednesday that military chiefs wanted a few thousand more troops from the alliance to ...

Thailand's military said Wednesday it was hunting four suspects over a large car bomb which wounded more than 60 people ...

At least six people were killed and about 10 injured Monday in a car bomb attack in Somalia's capital Mogadishu ...

Afghan forces - backed by the US- have recently carried out a series of operations against IS The head of ...

Al-Shabab insurgents in Somalia have beheaded two government soldiers they captured on Saturday near the town of Mahaday, 35 kilometers ...

A US soldier has been killed in Somalia during operations against al-Shabab militants, the American military says. Two other US ...

An American soldier was shot dead and two others wounded in Somalia during a joint operation with Somali forces against ...

The Pentagon will ask the White House next week to send thousands more troops to Afghanistan to break a deadlocked ...

A suicide attack on a convoy belonging to the Nato mission in Afghanistan has killed at least eight people in ...

Eight civilians were killed and another 28 people wounded, including three American soldiers, when an ISIS suicide bomber attacked a ...

A bomb blast targeting a convoy of foreign forces near the US embassy in Kabul Wednesday killed at least three ...

US Marines returned to Afghanistan's volatile Helmand province Saturday, the first to be deployed in the war-torn country since NATO ...

The Afghan Taliban announced Friday the start of their "spring offensive", saying they would target foreign forces in the country, ...

Authorities have arrested 35 soldiers who served on an army base in northern Afghanistan where the Taliban staged a deadly ...