Fighting subsided in Syria on Saturday after a deal signed by government backers Russia and Iran and rebel supporter Turkey to create four safe zones began to take effect, a monitor said. The zones...
Nine Chadian soldiers were killed in a Boko Haram attack on an army post in the Lake Chad region on Friday, local and security sources told AFP. Some 40 Boko Haram jihadists were also killed as the...
An American soldier was shot dead and two others wounded in Somalia during a joint operation with Somali forces against Shabaab militants, the US military said Friday. "On May 4, one US service...
After six years of conflict in Syria, government backers Russia and Iran and rebel supporter Turkey have signed a deal to create four "de-escalation zones" in the country. Here are some questions and...
Ghanaian soldiers have on many occasions been commended by the UN The Ghana Armed Forces has denied reports that Ghanaian soldiers in peacekeeping operation in Mali have been attacked. The supposed...
Russia, Iran and Turkey on Thursday signed an agreement to set up four safe zones in Syria that the United Nations described as a promising step to wind down the brutal six-year war. The United...
Iraqi forces thrust into west Mosul from the north on Thursday, opening a new front in the more than six-month-old offensive to dislodge the Islamic State group from the country's second city. The...
Dozens of black veils dotted a freshly laid sand berm in northern Syria, ditched by women fleeing the Islamic State group's bastion of Raqa as US-backed fighters close in. Outside the village of...
A South Korean warship is heading for Somalia to hold an anti-piracy drill in waters off the country’s coast. The 4,400-ton destroyer Daejoyoung left the South Korean port of Busan yesterday, with...
At least 37 people, including dozens of civilians, have been killed in an attack by ISIL fighters targeting a crossing along Syria's north-eastern border with Iraq, according to a monitoring group....
Nine Malian soldiers were killed and five wounded in an area regularly targeted by jihadist groups, as the commander of France's counter-terrorism force for the region said an operation on the...
US-backed fighters battled to clear the Islamic State group from a final pocket of Syria's Tabqa on Tuesday after seizing 90 percent of the city, the force and a monitor said. Tabqa sits on the...
More than 30 civilians and Kurdish-led fighters have been killed in an attack by Islamic State militants near Syria's north-eastern border with Iraq. They targeted a makeshift camp for displaced...
The US military says its controversial Thaad missile defence system is now operational in South Korea. The system can intercept North Korean missiles although full operational capability is still...
Jihadist fighters killed at least 10 soldiers in the western Iraqi province of Anbar on Tuesday in their latest deadly attack on security forces in the area, officers said. The attack near the remote...
China has demanded an 'immediate' halt to the deployment of a controversial US missile system in South Korea just hours after it became operational. Beijing threatened to 'take necessary measures to...
Iran will maintain its support for the Syrian government despite the deaths of hundreds of its advisers and volunteers in the six-year civil war, a commander said in comments published Tuesday....
China called Tuesday for the immediate suspension of a controversial missile defence system hours after Washington confirmed the shield was now operational in South Korea. "China's position is...
China demanded on Tuesday an immediate halt to a controversial US missile shield hours after Washington announced that the defence system was now operational in South Korea. Washington and Seoul...
The US military says its controversial Thaad missile defence system is now operational in South Korea. The system can intercept North Korean missiles although full operational capability is still...
