As President-elect Donald Trump prepares to take office, the Islamic State is on the defensive in three countries and has been all but wiped out in another. Two and a half years after the extremists...
Five officials from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have been killed in a bomb attack in Kandahar, Afghanistan, officials have confirmed. They died in blasts at the governor of Kandahar's guesthouse...
Afghan policemen at the site of the suicide bomb attack in Kabul More than 20 people have been killed in twin suicide blasts near Afghanistan's parliament in the capital, Kabul, according to...
The current global political, and security environment remains chaotic, dangerous, and unstable. While the Obama Administration has done its best to address them, there is no doubt that the incoming...
Last October Burundi, South Africa and the Gambia declared they were withdrawing from the International Criminal Court (ICC), citing reasons that generally have to do with the widely held perception...
An Accra Circuit Court yesterday handed a 10-year jail term to 20-year-old trader Seidu Issah, who mixed jollof rice with wee. The accused is reported to have given the said ‘wee jollof’ to one...
Taliban militants in Afghanistan have shot dead a woman who divorced her husband and remarried, officials say. The killing took place in north-western Badghis province. There are some reports that...
At least 57 journalists have been killed around the world in 2016 while doing their job, Reporters Without Borders said on Monday. The press freedom group said 19 were killed in Syria alone, followed...
Since October, Ethiopia has been withdrawing troops from Somalia. The redeployment highlights problems with the international community’s funding of military operations in Africa. The Ethiopian...
Though US President Barack Obama pledged to close Guantanamo Bay offshore detention centre in Cuba upon taking office, as time runs out on his administration that almost certainly will not happen....
At least 34 Afghan asylum seekers arrived in their home country after being deported from Germany a day earlier, a Kabul airport official said. The group was the first to arrive back in Afghanistan...
Who said the second coming our Lord Jesus Christ is a far away and a distance event? Many are the so-called Christians who have failed to be abreast with the prophetic end-time events to sleep...
A senior official in Afghanistan says he was violently kidnapped and sexually molested by Vice-President Abdul Rashid Dostum late last month. The accusation came from Ahmad Eshchi, the former...
An Afghan boy who gained online fame after a picture of him wearing a makeshift Lionel Messi jersey went viral has finally met his football hero in Doha, Qatar. Murtaza Ahmadi was shown dressed in a...
A collection of moments subtle and grand of the 44th president of the United States. Barack Obama boards Air Force One at Yangon International Airport on Friday in Yangon, Myanmar, for the G-20...
General James 'Mad Dog' Mattis, the famous ex-Marine and the hero of countless conflicts and wars, has been nominated by President-elect Donald Trump as his Secretary of Defence. And what an...
China lodged a diplomatic protest on Saturday after U. S. President-elect Donald Trump spoke by phone with President Tsai Ing-wen of Taiwan, but blamed the self-ruled island Beijing claims as its own...
Since their ouster in 2001, Taliban have executed people they accuse of spying for foreign forces Taliban fighters publicly hanged a university student after accusing him of killing a senior...
It is particularly difficult to foretell what the foreign policy of a US president-elect will be. We have plenty of examples of US presidents who – after coming into office – did not follow...
US President-elect Donald Trump has named Gen James Mattis, a former marine who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, as his defence secretary. "He's our best," Mr Trump said, as he announced his pick in a...
