13 Off-Duty Soldiers Killed By Car Bomb
A suicide car bomb in central Turkey has killed 13 soldiers aboard a bus and wounded 56 more, officials say. The blast destroyed the bus carrying soldiers visiting a local market in the city of...
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Burkina Faso Militant Attack
Twelve soldiers have been killed and two are missing after an attack by Islamist militants near Burkina Faso’s border with Mali, the army has said. Insurgents who carried out the attack did so on...
Suicide Car Bomb Explodes At Checkpoint In Mogadishu
A suicide car bomb exploded on Thursday at a checkpoint near Somalia's national theater in the capital Mogadishu, killing the bomber, police said. There was no immediate word on whether anybody else...
Car Bomb Leaves At Least 20 Dead
At least 20 people have died, while 15 have sustained injuries, after a car bomb exploded in Somalia on Sunday morning. Around 7:30 a.m. local time, Somali Police Officer Major Ahmed Ibrahim told CNN...
Somalia’s Presidential Elections Postponed Again
The elections have been postponed to a later date Somalia’s presidential elections scheduled for November 30 have been postponed for a third time to a later unspecified date. The chairman of the...
Armed Men In Police Uniforms Free Five In India Jailbreak
At least 10 armed men disguised as policemen attacked a high security prison Sunday and freed a top Sikh militant commander and four others in India's Punjab state, officials said. The attackers...
Senior Al Qaeda Leader Killed In U.S. Airstrike In Syria
The U. S. Ministry of Defense on Tuesday confirmed that a senior al Qaeda leader was killed in a U.S. air strike near Sarmada, Syria, last week. Abu Afghan Al-Masri, an Egyptian who joined al Qaeda...
US ‘admits Somalia Air Strike Killed Allies, Not Al-Shabab’
An airstrike in Somalia that the US said had targeted al-Shabab actually killed 10 members of an allied local militia, US media report, quoting an unpublished Pentagon investigation. The US says it...
Footballer Cleared Of Terrorism Spread Allegation
Turkish lower league footballer Deniz Naki has been spared up to five years in prison after being cleared of charges for social media posts which allegedly contained terrorist propaganda, his lawyer...
Six Stories You May Have Missed Because of US Election
Six stories you may have missed because of US election Iraqi Kurdish forces seized the town of Bashiqa near Mosul from ISIL, an official said While the US presidential race between Donald Trump and...
Germany Has Become ‘haven For Terrorists’
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday Germany had become a haven for terrorists and would be "judged by history", accusing it of failing to extradite supporters of a U. S.-based cleric...
Hundreds of Jailed Terrorists Back On UK Streets
Five people who plotted a dirty bomb attack in London are free The vast majority of convicted terrorists jailed over the past 15 years are now back on Britain's streets, a Sky News investigation has...
US Orders Civilians To Leave Turkey Over Imminent Threat
The US government has ordered all civilian family members of its Istanbul consulate staff to leave Turkey because of increasing threats from terrorist organizations, according to a travel warning...
Burkina Police Kill Jihadist In Firefight In Capital
Burkina Faso's police chief said on Sunday that his forces shot dead a jihadist overnight in Ouagadougou and were searching for two others in the latest sign of growing insecurity in the West African...
Two Police Killed, 19 People Wounded In Bomb In East Turkey.
Two police officers were killed and 19 people were wounded when a car bomb exploded near a passing police vehicle in the eastern Turkish province of Bingol on Sunday, security sources said. The bomb,...
Shabaab ‘takes Somali Town’ After Ethiopia Troop Pullout
MOGADISHU (AFP) - Fighters from the Al-Qaeda-linked Shabaab group said Sunday they had retaken control of a town in central Somalia after hundreds of Ethiopian troops serving with the African Union's...
Al Shabaab Still Remains the Biggest Threat To Kenya
Despite Kenya making major strides in the war against terror, al Shabaab still remains the biggest threat to the nation, Chief of Defense Force General Samson Mwathathe has said. Mwathethe on Friday...
Rebels Set Up Internment Camp For IS Defectors
A secret internment camp for former Islamic State militants and their families has been established in Syria. Some 300 defectors and captured combatants, including many Europeans, are being held at...
Six Killed In Suspected Islamist Attack In Kenya
Suspected Islamist militants from the Somali group al Shabaab killed six people in an attack in northeast Kenya on Thursday, a regional governor said. The Mandera region on the Somali border has...
Former Qaeda In Syria Confirms A Leader Killed In Raid
A jihadist group that was formerly Al-Qaeda's affiliate in Syria has confirmed that an air strike killed a senior leader after the Pentagon said it had targeted him. Ahmed Salama Mabrouk, an Egyptian...