Al Shabaab Islamist militants attacked two Somali National Army bases on Saturday and the army said there had been casualties on both sides but it was now in control of the bases. The bases,... Read more

A motorist rammed a car into U.S. Capitol police on Friday and brandished a knife, killing one officer and injuring another and forcing the Capitol complex to lock down in an attack that pol... Read more

Today, leaders of Yemen’s General People’s Congress (GPC) are fearing for their lives after their supposed ally, the Houthi militia, have ordered its affiliated media outlets to scale... Read more

Iran’s government wants the United States to lift all sanctions on its country and rejects any “step-by-step” easing of the restrictions, Iranian state broadcaster Press TV reported on Satur... Read more

Kurdish forces on Friday said they had captured 125 suspected ISIS group members as part of a security operation in northeast Syria’s Al-Hol displacement camp. The US-backed Syrian Dem... Read more

Nahla Abdelmonem France has been beefing up security inside it to prevent terrorist activities from taking root and growing. This follows a series of Islamist attacks in different parts of t... Read more

Shaimaa Hefzi A political crisis, induced by the failure of Somali President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmaajo in paving the road for elections, keeps spiraling up in Somalia. The United Nations ha... Read more

Eslam Mohamed The agreement that Iran concluded with China constitutes a geopolitical coup in the Middle East region, as the Chinese army, and later the Russian, has the ability to reach the... Read more

Azerbaijan is following Turkey’s Syria playbook in seeking to erase the cultural and religious identity of areas recently captured in the disputed Nagorno- Karabakh region, Armenian news out... Read more

A committee at the Libyan parliament began receiving on Thursday the nominations of candidates seeking to assume “sovereign” positions in the country. Twelve candidates are vying for the pos... Read more

MORE than 50 000 people affected by the latest deadly violence in northern Mozambique need food assistance. Struggling financially, the World Food Programme (WFP) has nonetheless intervened... Read more

Russia today vowed to ‘take extra measures’ if Nato responds after the Kremlin dispatched 4,000 troops to reinforce the disputed Ukrainian border. ‘No doubt such a scenario... Read more

The war in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region risks dragging on for months and even years, with both sides eyeing a military “knockout blow” that appears unrealistic, the In... Read more