UN chief Antonio Guterres appealed Friday for more aid and international solidarity for the people of Mosul, as he visited a camp for Iraqis displaced by fighting with jihadists. "We don't have the...
The children proudly wield donated plastic water bottles like freshly dug nuggets of treasure, smiling despite the fear and death and destruction they have faced in their ruined city. With the...
The state of emergency in force almost non-stop for 16 months in Mali was extended by 10 days from Friday, the government said. The measure has been renewed several times since jihadists stormed the...
A senior army officer who headed the intelligence wing of Bangladesh's elite security force died Friday, days after he was injured in a bomb attack claimed by the Islamic State group. Lieutenant...
The US provides military support to Somalia in its fight against al-Shabab President Donald Trump has given the US military greater authority to attack militants in Somalia. The US provides military...
President Donald Trump has boosted the US military's authority to step up air strikes in the fight against Islamist insurgents in Somalia, the Defense Department said Thursday. According to a...
The US-led coalition fighting the Islamic State group said Thursday that it had killed a propaganda chief and associates in an air strike in the western Iraqi town of Al-Qaim. Ibrahim Al-Ansari was...
Bangladesh security forces found the scattered body parts of up to eight people including women and possibly children when they stormed an Islamist hideout on Thursday, police said. Security forces...
A Boko Haram faction led by the son of the group's founder is trying to win over civilians by shunning the indiscriminate violence of its longtime figurehead that has alienated locals. Eyewitnesses...
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani is credited with pulling the economy back from the brink, but less than two months before his re-election bid, has he done enough to convince voters? "This year was...
A bomb attack on a bus in Syria's third city Homs killed five people and wounded at least seven on Wednesday, state media reported. The blast hit a small bus carrying passengers in the Al-Zahraa...
Contrary to public perception, Islamic scholars have debunked the notion that Islam limits women from aspiring to higher positions in life. Former Dean of the faculty of Creative Arts at the Kumasi...
Bangladesh police came under grenade attack when they raided two suspected Islamist extremist hideouts on Wednesday, days after a major anti-militant drive in which 10 people were killed. Police said...
In the Iraqi Christian town of Qaraqosh, time stands still. The Islamic State group was expelled in October 2016, but life has not returned to its once-vibrant and wealthy neighbourhoods. It has a...
What appears to a ‘gentleman agreement” among the members of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) members in the Upper West Region especially within the Wa Municipality has taken a different dimension...
The Pentagon said Monday it was reviewing more than 700 video feeds of coalition air strikes on west Mosul, Iraq after reports of a large number of civilians killed in bombings. Amid rising concern...
A rebel court in Yemen's insurgent-held capital has sentenced President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi to death for high treason in absentia, the rebel news agency has said. Yemen on Sunday marked the second...
At least two civilians and one policeman killed during the operation at a residential building in Sylhet city. At least two civilians and one policeman have been killed by explosions during an...
Sixteen rebels have been killed and 24 wounded in 24 hours of air raids by a Saudi-led coalition targeting the insurgents in Yemen, a military official and medics said Saturday. The Huthi rebels were...
Every week, young divorcee Rita Choukeir looks forward to the three precious hours she gets with her young son in Lebanon, where child custody is awarded according to religious rulings. Typically...
