Iraqi forces backed by helicopter strikes engaged in heavy fighting with jihadists on the outskirts of the Old City on Sunday as they pressed an offensive to recapture west Mosul. The elite Rapid...
Heavy clashes rocked eastern districts of the Syrian capital on Sunday after rebels and jihadists launched a surprise assault on regime forces there, a monitor and state television said. Rebels and...
The United States and China will work together to get nuclear-armed North Korea take "a different course", U. S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said on Saturday, softening previous criticism of...
The Ghana Armed Forces has announced that it has resumed with the recruitment of its officers which was put on hold for undisclosed reasons. In a release issued and signed by its Director of Public...
Elite Iraqi forces said they were battling house by house in the Old City of Mosul on Saturday, inching towards the mosque where the Islamic State group proclaimed its "caliphate" in 2014. Iraq began...
The East Legon Police commander Emmanuel Basintale and three other officers at that station have been arrested for their roles in a gold fraud. The four are said to be part of a gold fraud syndicate...
US President Donald Trump on Saturday accused Germany of owing "vast sums of money" to NATO, and said Berlin should pay Washington more for defense, a day after meeting Chancellor Angela Merkel. The...
Hundreds of rebels and civilians left the last opposition-held district of Homs on Saturday under a controversial Russian-supervised deal to bring Syria's third city under full government control....
The first of 800 UK troops being sent to bolster Nato defences in the Baltic have arrived in Estonia. The 120 soldiers from the 5th Battalion The Rifles will set up a UK headquarters in the country...
The US has denied hitting a mosque in Syria where activists say dozens of people, mostly civilians, were killed. The Pentagon said the US targeted an "al-Qaeda gathering across the street from a...
Israeli warplanes struck several targets in Syria early Friday, prompting retaliatory missile launches, in the most serious incident between the two countries since the Syrian civil war began six...
Forty-two people have been killed when a boat carrying Somali refugees off the coast of Yemen was fired at from a helicopter, the International Organisation for Migration says. Women and children...
DSP Emmanuel Basintale, commander in-charge of the East Legon Police Station and six other junior police officers have been arrested by the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana...
Iraqi forces said Friday they had seized ground inside Mosul's Old City, a district expected to see some of the fiercest clashes in the battle for the jihadist stronghold. An operation began on...
Fighter jets bomb multiple targets, prompting Syrian retaliation with ground-to-air missiles, Israeli army says. The Israeli army says its aircraft have carried out several strikes inside Syria...
Somali pirates who hijacked an oil tanker on Monday have released the ship and its eight Sri Lankan crew members. The release followed a gunfight earlier in the day between the pirates and the marine...
The UN has confirmed the deaths of refugees after reports that 31 Somalis were killed in a helicopter gunship strike on a migrant boat off Yemen. A number of refugees were killed in the incident,...
Dozens of Somali refugees including women and children have been shot dead aboard a boat on the Red Sea, Yemeni officials and the International Organization for Migration said Friday. The bodies of...
A commander said Friday that Iraqi forces have gained ground from jihadists inside the Old City of Mosul, an area that could see some of the toughest fighting of the battle for the northern...
In Aleppo, portraits of Russian President Vladimir Putin hang shoulder-to-shoulder with those of his Syrian counterpart Bashar al-Assad, signalling Moscow's rise at the expense of Damascus's other...
