The Islamic State attack was in response to calls to target citizens of coalition countries. A follower of Islamic State was responsible for a stabbing attack on two youths in the German city of...
The Electoral Commission (EC) of Ghana has fixed the special voting exercise for December 1, 2016, ahead of the main election on December 7 polls. The exercise is meant to help personnel from the...
The US government has ordered all civilian family members of its Istanbul consulate staff to leave Turkey because of increasing threats from terrorist organizations, according to a travel warning...
A pair of airstrikes targeting a Yemeni prison killed dozens of inmates off the nation's west coast Saturday, the nation's Houthi-controlled Defense Ministry said. The airstrikes, which targeted the...
Ethnic tension is rising in South Sudan’s Bahr-el-Ghazal state where leaflets ordering those from Central Equatoria to leave or face elimination were found. It is feared that the Dinka may be...
The civilians from southern villages appear to have been forced into the city by ISIS, and witnesses said they looked to be in poor condition, with no food or accommodation. However, it is unclear...
The bombing incidence is one of the many few that have shaken Benghazi in recent times. A car exploded late on Saturday in Libya's eastern city of Benghazi killing four people and wounding at least...
Iraqi Shi'ite militias said on Saturday they had launched an offensive towards the west of Mosul, an operation that would tighten the noose around Islamic State's Iraq stronghold but could inflame...
Gunmen on motorcycles killed at least four people at a religious gathering of Shi'ite Muslims in Karachi, Pakistan's largest city, on Saturday, police said, in the latest attack claimed by the Sunni...
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant appears to be using tens of thousands of people as "human shields" in and around Mosul, where Iraqi forces are waging an offensive aimed at retaking the country's...
In a story Oct. 23 about 83 missing Nigerian soldiers, The Associated Press erroneously quoted senior military officers. The story should have quoted Nigeria’s Premium Times newspaper citing senior...
Muslim Fulani herdsmen attacked villagers in the village of Godogodo, Nigeria on October 15 with guns and machetes, burning down homes, killing more than 40 people and injuring dozens more. It was...
The Electoral Commission (EC) of Ghana has fixed the special voting exercise for the 1st of December, 2016, ahead of the main election on December 7. This was announced by the Chair of the EC,...
South Africa and Burundi's decision to quit the International Criminal Court (ICC) and an attack by Gambia against its supposed 'Caucasian' justice are likely to embolden other African states to...
Nigeria will invest $10bn (£8bn) in its oil-rich south to end an insurgency by militants, the oil minister has said. The money would be used to build infrastructure, including roads and railways,...
ISIS has "executed" 232 people near Mosul and taken tens of thousands of people to use as human shields against advancing Iraqi forces, the UN says. A spokeswoman for the UN's human rights arm told...
A man was shot dead after stabbing a policeman guarding the perimeter wall of the U. S. Embassy in Nairobi and trying to take his gun, a Kenyan police official said Thursday. The policeman who had...
A group of around 150 armed rebels have abducted at least 30 children after they attacked two schools in South Sudan's Amadi state, the state governor Joseph Ngere has told the BBC's Focus on Africa...
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that cyber attacks or other types of interference in other countries' internal affairs were intolerable. The U. S. government has formally accused...
The long threatened abandonment of the ICC by Africa is under way. Burundi, South Africa and Gambia have announced that they are leaving, with more departures expected. According to African leaders,...
