Exiled Democratic Republic of Congo opposition politician Moise Katumbi on Friday filed a complaint with the UN in Geneva against President Joseph Kabila's government. Katumbi, a powerful businessman...
A university in Afghanistan appealed to the Taliban Friday to release an American and an Australian abducted last year, after the insurgents threatened to kill foreign hostages if Kabul executes...
Iraqi forces have recaptured around half of two neighbourhoods in west Mosul that are among the targets of a broad offensive against jihadists launched last week, officers said on Friday. Iraqi...
At least four Afghans were killed Friday when police fired live rounds to disperse stone-throwing protesters seeking to march on the presidential palace to demand the government's resignation...
Moscow on Friday said it will not veto a UN resolution imposing sanctions on North Korea, despite Kremlin ire over fresh US punitive measures that hit Russian firms. The United States has presented a...
Loud explosions rang out in the now mostly deserted city of Marawai on Friday as Philippine fighter jets launched fresh bombing runs in a bid to dislodge militants linked to the Islamic State group....
Chad has strongly objected to a UN report accusing its soldiers of abuses in Central African Republic in an official letter seen by AFP on Friday. "The government of Chad strongly opposes this report...
E. L has released a tribute song for the late Captain Maxwell Adam Mahama, titled ‘We are One’. In the song E. L expresses his grief over the unfortunate incidence and called on Ghanaians to be...
Thousands of Palestinians poured into Jerusalem to attend the first Friday prayers of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan at the Al-Aqsa mosque compound, Islam's third-holiest site, AFP...
The nation was stunned by the gruesome murder of a young promising soldier, Captain Maxwell A. Mahama on the 29th May, 2017 by locals of Denkyira-Obuasi in the Central region. My deepest...
The Council of State has condemned the killing of Captain Maxwell Adam Mahama by some residents of Denkyira-Boase, in the Central region. In a statement, the Council said “Attacking and killing...
A retired military officer, Major Osahene Boakye Gyan, has appealed to the general public to delink politics from security issues in the country. According to him, there is the need to go beyond...
Pentagon chief Jim Mattis arrived in Singapore on Friday ahead of a key defence summit where longstanding US allies will look for clear messages about America's regional security goals under...
Afghan police fired aerial gunshots and water cannon Friday to stop dozens of protesters from marching on the presidential palace to demand the government's resignation following a catastrophic truck...
Suspected al-Shabab militants killed a teacher and abducted another as they burned down a school late Wednesday in northeastern Kenya. The Kenyan MP from the region Musfafe Abdirashid told VOA's...
An al-Shabab military commander has defected and surrendered to Somali government forces, authorities in Mogadishu said. A Somali general who interviewed the defector told VOA the al-Shabab commander...
Its Old City is in constant lockdown, its holy site where the biblical Abraham may have been buried guarded by Israeli soldiers at checkpoints. Fifty years after the Six-Day War, the ancient city of...
Its vaunted air force destroyed, its army humbled -- the Six-Day War of 1967 dealt Egypt a shock it has yet to overcome and spelled the end of its pan-Arab hopes for regional dominance. The war,...
He lives only a 20-minute drive from Jerusalem but for Palestinian Abu Bashir the city and its sacred sites might as well be a world away. "The whole world goes to Jerusalem but we who live a few...
A man armed with an assault weapon who fired shots inside an entertainment resort and casino in the capital, Manila, committed suicide by setting himself alight, Philippine police said on Friday....
