Death toll from Niger ambush rises to 28 soldiers killed: army

By Reuters,

The death toll from an ambush on Nigerian troops near the Mali border has risen to 28, an army spokesman said on Thursday. The ambush occurred in a...

ambushed , death

At least 17 Niger soldiers killed in ambush: government spokesman

By Reuters,

Gunmen killed at least 17 Nigerien troops in an ambush near the Malian border, where several jihadist groups are active, and another 11 soldiers are m...

AL QAEDA , Islamic state , Nigerien troops , U.S. special forces

Death toll in jihadist ambush on Malian soldiers hits 23

By VOA,

Officials in Mali have put the death toll from Sunday's militant attack on an army camp in the village of Dioura at 23. Suspected jihadists briefly...

Al-Qaida , Jihadist Ambush , Malian soldiers , Tiemoko Sangare

On brink of Syria defeat, Islamic State unleashes car bombs

By Reuters,

Islamic State launched suicide car bombs against the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) assaulting Baghouz, in a last-ditch effort to stave off defeat in ...

Islamic state , Syria

US General: Strikes in Somalia won’t stop Al-Shabab

By VOA,

The U.S. military's air campaign against al-Shabab in Somalia will not stop the jihadists, a top U.S. general said Thursday as he called on the east A...

AL-SHABAB , somalia , US

10 Burkina Faso Police Officers Killed in Ambush

By VOA,

Ten police officers were killed and three wounded in an ambush Thursday in northwestern Burkina Faso, the west African country's security ministry sai...

Militants kill seven Christians returning from baptism in Egypt

By Reuters,

Gunmen killed at least seven Christians who were returning from baptizing a child at a Coptic monastery in Egypt on Friday, officials said - the most ...

Archbishop of Minya , Egypt , Islamic state , united arab emirates

Key events around the world in 2017

By AFP,

From the inauguration of US President Donald Trump to the exodus of Rohingyas from Myanmar, here are 12 events that marked 2017. - A year of Trump ...

'Treacherous shenanigans' - The inside story of Mugabe's downfall , BREXIT TALKS , donald trump inauguration , Emmanuel Macron , ROHINGYA REFUGEES

Six dead after ambush on Malian High Court’s president

By VOA,

Five Malian soldiers and one civilian were killed in central Mali on Tuesday during an ambush on a convoy of the president of the High Court of Justic...

15 injured in central Somalia mosque blast , BULA HAWA REGION IN SOMALIA , Jihadists kill 3 in rocket attack on U.N. base in Mali , MALIAN HIGH COURT JUDGE

Boko Haram kills nine near bombed NE Nigeria camp

By Citizen Reporter,

Boko Haram fighters killed nine people from a camp that was mistakenly bombed by the Nigerian military earlier this year, an aid worker and a resident...

Boko Haram , Kanuri ethnic group , Muslim islamists , Nigeria

Nigerian army faces new dangers in Boko Haram campaign

By Reuters,

Nigeria's military has liberated large swathes of land from Boko Haram but a ride with an army convoy, all guns firing for fear of ambush, shows how f...

Boko Haram , Nigeria

5 UN peacekeepers killed in Mali

By Agencies,

Five UN peacekeepers have been killed in a mortar attack on their base in Kidal in northern Mali. Thirty others were hurt when militants used a van p...

AL QAEDA , MALI , UN peace keepers

Three gendarmes killed in armed raid in central Mali

By Agencies,

Gunmen killed three gendarmes in an overnight ambush near a town in central Mali, the defence ministry said on Wednesday, confirming the latest in a g...

Central Mali

150 drown, shot dead fleeing Boko Haram in Nigeria

By Agencies,

Up to 150 people drowned in a river or were shot dead fleeing Boko Haram gunmen who raided a remote village in Nigeria's northeastern Yobe state, resi...

africa , Boko Haram , kenya , Nigeria , terror , terrorism

Gov’t bans broadcast of video shot by Al Shabaab during Lamu attack

By Koome Kimonye,

The government has warned media houses and bloggers against broadcasting in way of publishing, airing, or distributing video clips purportedly shot by...