Tag: Military history by country

Islamist militants have launched a gun and bomb attack on an African Union (AU) peacekeeper base in Somalia. Al Shabab ...

Ancient piracy is typified not only by glamour and style, but also a military-like posture where targets are selected and ...

Western governments are warning their citizens against travelling to nearly all of the southern third of the Philippines, citing the ...

The blast walls that cut through Kabul like ramparts are being pulled down, part of a counter-intuitive makeover by local ...

A vicious combination of war, cholera and hunger has left 80 percent of Yemeni children in desperate need of aid, ...

A group of old pals trot onto the pitch for what looks like an ordinary football match in Vietnam. But ...

At least 24 people have been killed and 42 wounded after a car bomb struck a bus carrying government employees ...

Russia's defence ministry said Saturday that its officials had signed a deal with moderate Syrian rebels at peace talks in ...

Pentagon chief Jim Mattis said Friday that he believes Islamic State chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is still alive, following various ...

War crimes judges will next month deliver a landmark order for reparations for the razing of the fabled Timbuktu shrines ...

The United Nations on Friday blamed a Saudi-led coalition for a deadly air strike on civilians in Yemen this week, ...

An air raid in Yemen has killed at least 20 people mostly from the same family, the UN and witnesses ...

An air strike on a group of displaced Yemenis has killed at least 20 civilians, mostly from the same family, ...

Adel, 15, hasn't seen his parents for the past nine months, but that was the price to pay to escape ...

Afghan security forces supported by US air power have retaken the center of volatile Nawa district from the Taliban in ...

At least 15 Yemeni rebels and eight soldiers were killed Monday as government forces attacked insurgent positions in two areas ...

The bodies of eight missing Malian soldiers have been found following a presumed jihadist attack on July 9, official sources ...

The Malian army said Friday it had killed a top jihadist commander operating in the country's troubled central region, following ...

Baghdad is investigating allegations of torture and rights abuses meted out by Iraqi security forces to Islamic State prisoners in ...

The conflict in Mali is spilling over to Burkina Faso and Niger, with a significant surge of attacks by extremist ...