More Boko Haram Fighters Surrender
Authorities in Niger have said that around 20 more members of the jihadist group Boko Haram have surrendered in the country. According to Vanguard, the combatants surrendered at Diffa, in...
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Mother Detained Over Gülen Links As Premature Baby Lies In Intensive Care [Video]
Ş.A., a former private school teacher and mother of a week-old premature infant, was taken into police custody over links to the faith-based Gülen movement, while she was on her way to the hospital...
Osama Bin Laden Son On Terror Watch List
One of 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden's sons has been placed on a State Department terror watch list after he reportedly threatened terror attacks against the US. Hamza bin Laden was named as a...
US Adds Bin Laden’s Son To Terror List
Hamza bin Laden, a son of Osama bin Laden, has been officially designated a global terrorist by the United States. Hamza, who is now in his late 20s, was named an official member of al-Qaeda in 2015...
Two Held Over Threats To Israeli Judges
Police in Israel have arrested two people accused of inciting violence against judges who convicted a young soldier of manslaughter for shooting dead a wounded Palestinian attacker. The military...
Deaths As Car Bomb Hits Jableh Town
At least nine people are reported killed and 25 others wounded in a car bomb attack on Syrian government-held coastal town of Jableh, state media reported. Thursday's attack in the Latakia province...
German-Ghanaian Who Denounced ISIS Faces War Crimes Charges
A German-Ghanaian Islamic State defector who claimed in news interviews to have refused to commit violence for the group has been charged by German authorities with murder and war crimes for his role...
German-Ghanaian Who Denounced ISIS Faces War Crimes Charges
A German-Ghanaian Islamic State defector who claimed in news interviews to have refused to commit violence for the group has been charged by German authorities with murder and war crimes for his role...
German-Ghanaian Who Denounced ISIS Faces War Crimes Charges
A German-Ghanaian Islamic State defector who claimed in news interviews to have refused to commit violence for the group has been charged by German authorities with murder and war crimes for his role...
German-Ghanaian ISIS Member Charged In Murders
German prosecutors have added six counts of murder and war crimes to the charges against an imprisoned Islamic State member from Germany who attracted global attention after claiming disillusionment...
NDC MP-Elect Faces Sack
Even before he is sworn into office as a substantive Member of Parliament, the MP-elect for Zabzugu in the Northern Region, Umar Alhassan who stood on the ticket of the ruling National Democratic...
Muslim Leaders Urged To Avoid Shameful Acts
The Spiritual Leader of the Tijaniyya Muslim Council of Ghana, Sheikh Abul-Faidi Abdulai Ahmed Maikano Jallo, has urged Muslim leaders to avoid shameful acts in the discharge of their duties. He said...
Turkey Cafe Boss Held For Erdogan ‘tea Insult’
The boss of a cafeteria at a Turkish opposition newspaper has been detained after saying he would refuse to serve tea to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Senol Buran, cafeteria head at Cumhuriyet, was...
Chibok Girl Recalls ‘miracle’ Release By Boko Haram
When Boko Haram fighters decided to release some of the 200 Chibok schoolgirls kidnapped two-and-a-half years ago in northeast Nigeria, Asabe Goni did not think that she would be among the girls...
Suicide Bomber Kills 2 In Cameroon Market
A suicide bomber in the northern Cameroon town of Mora killed a young student and a woman in an attack on a market full of Christmas shoppers, an aide to the governor of Far North region said Sunday....
Al Shabaab Militants Shoot Prosecutor Dead In Somalia’s Puntland
Al Shabaab Islamist militants shot dead a military prosecutor in Somalia's semi-autonomous Puntland region on Sunday, witnesses and officials said, the type of targeted killing that Al Qaeda-allied...
Police Officers Killed In Gun Battle In Jordan
At least four policemen and one suspect have been killed in clashes on the outskirts of Karak city in southern Jordan after security officers stormed an apartment, according to security sources. Two...
ISIL Makes Berlin Attack Claim Amid Hunt For Suspects
ISIL claimed responsibility for Monday's lorry attack on a Christmas market in Berlin as German investigators said they were pursuing multiple leads. The claim came at the end of a challenging day...
Russia To Boost Security After Killing
Russia’s intelligence services are to develop extra security measures for its embassies following the killing of its ambassador to Turkey. Andrei Karlov was shot dead as he gave a speech on Monday...
Renewed Violence Reported In Jordan’s Karak
Heavy gunfire and injuries have been reported in the village of Wesya in the southern Jordan province of Karak after security officers stormed an apartment. Tuesday's violence came shortly after the...