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Niger Troops Kill 57 Boko Haram Fighters

Niger troops have killed 57 Boko Haram jihadists during fighting in the southeast Niger, a security source told AFP...

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Southern EU Leaders Say US Strike On Syria ‘understandable’

The leaders of southern EU nations said Monday that a US missile strike on a Syrian air base in retaliation for a...

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Near Mosul, Soldiers and Displaced Meet At the Spa

Hammam al-Alil's sulphur springs and reopened spa have become a spot where the soldiers fighting in Mosul and the...

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Egypt Set For Emergency Rule After Church Attacks

Egypt prepared to impose a state of emergency Monday after jihadist bombings killed dozens at two churches in the...

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Pressed In Iraq and Syria, IS Lashes Out In Egypt

The twin bombings of churches in Egypt suggest that Islamic State group jihadists are lashing out as they find...

International

Libya and Uganda Engage In A Legal Row Over Telecom Company

The Libyan government has sounded a warning to the Ugandan government over its move to repossess shares of the Libyan...

International

Five Suspected Al Shabaab Militants Executed In Somalia For Killing Officials

The court said the accused were members of the al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab militant group Somalia’s semi-autonomous...

International

Death Toll In Somali Military Base Bomb Attack Rises To At Least 15

At least 15 people were killed when a car bomb exploded outside a military base in the Somali capital of Mogadishu on...

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Bangladesh Islamists To Hang After President Rejects Pleas

A top Islamist extremist under sentence of death has lost his last hope of avoiding the gallows after Bangladesh's...

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Indonesia’s Police Kill Six Suspected Islamic Militants

Indonesia's police shot dead six suspected IS-linked militants in a gunfight on Java island over the weekend, a police...

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Iraqi Shiite Cleric Sadr Urges Assad To Step Down

Influential Iraqi cleric Moqtada Sadr on Saturday called on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to step down, also calling...

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Strike Kills 15 Near Syria’s IS-Held Raqa

At least 15 civilians, including four children, were killed in a suspected US-led coalition airstrike on Saturday near...

International

Boko Haram Faction Kills Four Soldiers

The Islamists opened fire on an army convoy heading to the small town of Gulumba Boko Haram jihadists have killed four...

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Stop Delta, Invisible Forces Before They Act Like Boko Haram

A pro-National Democratic Congress (NDC) group known as Young Cadres has called on Ghanaians to stop the menace of...

Business

NIC Demands Dismissal of Boss

Employees of the National Insurance Commission (NIC) are demanding the immediate removal of their boss, Madam Lydia...

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Court Attack Threat To Ghana’s Stability – Analyst

The attack on the judiciary by members of the Delta Force threatens the security of the country, Patrick Stephenson, a...

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Why Would Syria Mount ‘chemical Attack’?

While Western powers have blamed Syria's regime for this week's suspected chemical attack, questions remain over why it...

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Pride and Pain As Mosul Doctors Treat Their Own

Every time a patient is stretchered into the Athbah field hospital south of Mosul, doctor Sultan prays it isn't his...

International

US Launches Cruise Missiles On Syrian Airbase

The United States on Friday fired dozens of cruise missiles at a government-controlled airbase in Syria, in retaliation...