Hundreds of Nigerian Detainees Freed
Nigeria's military says it has released 593 people held on suspicion of being linked to militant Islamist group Boko Haram, ...
Tag: Islam
Niger Troops Kill 57 Boko Haram Fighters
Niger troops have killed 57 Boko Haram jihadists during fighting in the southeast Niger, a security source told AFP Monday. ...
Southern EU Leaders Say US Strike On Syria ‘understandable’
The leaders of southern EU nations said Monday that a US missile strike on a Syrian air base in retaliation ...
Near Mosul, Soldiers and Displaced Meet At the Spa
Hammam al-Alil's sulphur springs and reopened spa have become a spot where the soldiers fighting in Mosul and the civilians ...
Egypt Set For Emergency Rule After Church Attacks
Egypt prepared to impose a state of emergency Monday after jihadist bombings killed dozens at two churches in the deadliest ...
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 ...
Libya and Uganda Engage In A Legal Row Over Telecom Company
The Libyan government has sounded a warning to the Ugandan government over its move to repossess shares of the Libyan ...
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 ...
Death Toll In Somali Military Base Bomb Attack Rises To At Least 15
At least 15 people were killed when a car bomb exploded outside a military base in the Somali capital of ...
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 ...
Indonesia’s Police Kill Six Suspected Islamic Militants
Indonesia's police shot dead six suspected IS-linked militants in a gunfight on Java island over the weekend, a police spokesman ...
Iraqi Shiite Cleric Sadr Urges Assad To Step Down
Influential Iraqi cleric Moqtada Sadr on Saturday called on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to step down, also calling on Washington ...
Strike Kills 15 Near Syria’s IS-Held Raqa
At least 15 civilians, including four children, were killed in a suspected US-led coalition airstrike on Saturday near the Islamic ...
Boko Haram Faction Kills Four Soldiers
The Islamists opened fire on an army convoy heading to the small town of Gulumba Boko Haram jihadists have killed ...
Stop Delta, Invisible Forces Before They Act Like Boko Haram
A pro-National Democratic Congress (NDC) group known as Young Cadres has called on Ghanaians to stop the menace of vigilante ...
NIC Demands Dismissal of Boss
Employees of the National Insurance Commission (NIC) are demanding the immediate removal of their boss, Madam Lydia Bawa. A three-page ...
Court Attack Threat To Ghana’s Stability – Analyst
The attack on the judiciary by members of the Delta Force threatens the security of the country, Patrick Stephenson, a ...
Why Would Syria Mount ‘chemical Attack’?
While Western powers have blamed Syria's regime for this week's suspected chemical attack, questions remain over why it would make ...
Pride and Pain As Mosul Doctors Treat Their Own
Every time a patient is stretchered into the Athbah field hospital south of Mosul, doctor Sultan prays it isn't his ...
US Launches Cruise Missiles On Syrian Airbase
The United States on Friday fired dozens of cruise missiles at a government-controlled airbase in Syria, in retaliation for a ...