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“Although Islamic State has been held responsible for this attack, Turkey’s AKP government, by resisting the taking of effective measures to prevent Islamic State and other reactionary forces, bears the real responsibility”, the opposition Peoples’...

The state-run Anadolu news agency said a soldier was killed after shots were fired from across the border in Syria into the southern province of Kilis, with Turkey responding by pounding militant positions with artillery. His corpse, a rocket launcher and an AK-47 used by the...

Egypt is battling an increasingly brazen insurgency in the Sinai Peninsula that has killed hundreds of police officers and soldiers since the army toppled Islamist President Mohamed Mursi in 2013 after mass protests against his rule.

While repair work was going to be carried out to fix damage done to the airport during fighting in the past few months, the airport’s staff was expected preparing to receive daily aid-carrying aircraft starting soon, he explained.

The three journalists had worked recently for various media including Spanish newspapers La Razon and ABC, which was the first on Tuesday to report their disappearance.

African Union and local troops have seized one of the last major towns held by the al-Shabab Islamic extremist rebels in the southwest of the country, a Somali officer said Wednesday.

Buhari’s visit, billed as a chance to “underscore the United States’ longstanding friendship with Nigeria”, was seen as a departure from previous rocky relations between the nations.

Suspected Boko Haram militants have killed more than 20 people including multiple children in their latest attack on northern Cameroon, easily overwhelming the few soldiers posted at the targeted village, residents said Monday.

Boko Haram‎ suicide bombers have killed scores of Muslim worshippers in Damaturu, Yobe State capital when they detonated bombs strapped to their bodies amidst large crowd of worshippers.

The bomb blasts on Friday at the Eid prayer ground in Yobe, Damaturu have been traced to two little girls between the ages of 10 and 11, eyewitnesses and local security sources said.

A few hours after two suicide bombers triggered explosions in Damaturu, the capital of Yobe State, the Nigerian Army reacted to the incessant attacks by vowing the defeat of insurgent Islamist fighters in the country’s northeast zone.

It’s the fifth vehicle bomb attack against the Shiite Houthi group since June in Sanaa by the ISIS.

A few hours after two suicide bombers triggered explosions in Damaturu, the capital of Yobe State, the Nigerian Army reacted to the incessant attacks by vowing the defeat of insurgent Islamist fighters in the country’s northeast zone.

Yemen’s “popular resistance” forces, which support president-in-exile Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi, said late Sunday that 47 civilians had been killed – and more than 140 injured – when the Shia Houthi militia shelled parts of the southern Aden province.

The coalition said it has not received a formal request from Hadi’s government to observe a truce, while the rebels said before the ceasefire went into effect they had little hope it would succeed.