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Dozens of Somali refugees including women and children have been shot dead aboard a boat on the Red Sea, Yemeni ...

A commander said Friday that Iraqi forces have gained ground from jihadists inside the Old City of Mosul, an area ...

Israeli warplanes struck several targets in Syria early Friday, prompting retaliatory missiles launches, in the most serious incident between the ...

Somali pirates who hijacked an oil tanker have released it without condition, according to officials. The announcement came hours after ...

The EU anti-piracy naval force pictured off the coast of Mogadishu in 2013 Somali pirates who hijacked an oil tanker ...

Somali pirates handed over on Thursday an oil tanker and eight Sri Lankan hostages just days after capturing the vessel, ...

Coastguards in northern Somalia exchanged gunfire Thursday with armed men aboard a boat heading towards a hijacked oil tanker where ...

The Iraqi army is giving ISIS a taste of its own medicine by bombing them with shuttlecock grenades attached to ...

Inside an armoured vehicle in Mosul, a colonel scans live footage from a drone flying above the Iraqi city, hunting ...

Iraqi authorities said Thursday that more than 150,000 people have fled fighting in and around west Mosul since security forces ...

Cameroon said its troops had rescued 5,000 civilian "hostages" held by Boko Haram Islamists in a cross-border operation that left ...

Nearly 100,000 Iraqis have fled the battle to retake west Mosul from the Islamic State jihadist group, the International Organization ...

An Australian woman kidnapped in Afghanistan last year has been released, officials said Thursday. The Australian Broadcasting Corporation said the ...

Dozens of women staged a sit-in outside UN offices in Yemen's capital Tuesday demanding an end to the country's war ...

An oil tanker has been hijacked by suspected pirates off the coast of Somalia, reports say, the first such hijacking ...

More than 80,000 people have fled west Mosul since the battle to retake the area began last month, the International ...

Iraqi forces said Tuesday that they recaptured Mosul's train station, once one of the country's main rail hubs and the ...

Iraqi forces said Tuesday that they recaptured Mosul's train station, which has not been operational since jihadists siezed the city ...

Suspected pirates boarded a Sri Lankan-flagged tanker and forced its crew to change course towards the northeastern Somali coast, an ...

A freight ship has been hijacked off the coast of Somalia, reports say. A number of suspected pirates boarded the ...