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‘More than 40’ killed in battle with Boko Haram in Nigeria More than 40 people have died in north-east Nigeria ...

Sri Lanka deployed troops and police to distribute fuel Wednesday as striking petroleum workers protested over plans to sell off ...

A suicide bomber struck a vehicle carrying members of the paramilitary Frontier Corps (FC) in Pakistan's northwest on Monday, killing ...

US military advisors are operating inside the city of Raqa, the Islamic State group's last major bastion in Syria, a ...

Children and hostages are being forced to fight alongside pro-Islamic State gunmen waging a seven-week battle for a Philippine city, ...

Snipers in high-rise buildings are the main problem facing Philippine forces battling to crush pro-Islamic State fighters who have occupied ...

Islamist gunmen led by one of the world's most wanted terrorists still hold about 1,500 buildings in a southern Philippine ...

Pakistan is beefing up security in the tribal northwest, the military said Friday, after days of protests over twin blasts ...

Egyptian warplanes struck a convoy of 12 vehicles about to be driven across the border from Libya carrying weapons and ...

Islamist militants occupying parts of a southern Philippine city used a water route to bring in ammunition and evacuate wounded ...

Sri Lanka has suffered a record 200 deaths from dengue fever this year, the health minister said Monday, blaming a ...

A Roman Catholic priest abducted by Islamist militants who seized parts of a southern Philippine city has been seen alive, ...

Inside the "Heroes' Ward" at a hospital in the Philippine capital, wounded soldiers read the Bible and recount horror stories ...

Philippine troops pounded Islamist militants holding parts of southern Marawi city with air strikes and artillery Saturday as more soldiers ...

Islamist militants holding parts of a Philippine city are killing civilians who try to flee while using others as orderlies ...

US forces are providing the Philippines with technical assistance to end a siege of the southern town of Marawi by ...

The Philippine military on Friday asked Facebook to close dozens of accounts linked to Islamist militants who attacked a southern ...

With bomb-proof tunnels, anti-tank weapons hidden in mosques, human shields and a "mastery" of the terrain, Islamist militants holed up ...

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte offered large bounties Monday for the leaders of Islamist fighters holding parts of a southern city ...

Muhamer Macayman cowered for four days as bullets tore through the shanty home he was hiding in, praying neither the ...