Insurgencies

By Aaron Ross BISSAU (Reuters) - In October, President Umaro Sissoco Embalo told French radio that drug trafficking and corruption...

PARIS (Reuters) -France opened a terrorism investigation on Thursday into an attack on park rangers in northern Benin in which...

PARIS (Reuters) -Four civilians were caught in cross fire after French troops supported with an attack helicopter killed 10 Islamist...

By Suleiman Al-Khalidi AMMAN (Reuters) - Tens of Syrian protesters gathered on Thursday in the mainly Druze city of Sweida...

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United Nations Security Council expressed "serious concern about the unconstitutional change of government" in Burkina...

DAKAR (Reuters) - A French national was among six people killed during an ambush on park rangers in northern Benin...

By Elias Biryabarema KAMPALA (Reuters) -Uganda said on Thursday it considered as "unfair and wrong" an International Court of Justice...

COTONOU (Reuters) - Five rangers and a soldier were killed and 10 others wounded in an ambush by unnamed militants...

BAMAKO (Reuters) - Mali's transitional government has created working groups with members of West Africa's regional bloc, the African Union...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - A senior Russian official accused the West on Wednesday of ramping up political pressure on Moscow by...

By Ahmed Rasheed and John Davison BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The next leader of Islamic State is likely to be from...

DAKAR (Reuters) - At least 30 Islamist militants were killed and dozens of vehicles and weapons destroyed during joint operations...

By Paul Lorgerie BAMAKO (Reuters) - Mali has accused France's military of deliberately dividing the West African country and of...

DONETSK/KHARKIV, Ukraine (Reuters) - Viktor, a pensioner, goes to sleep in breakaway eastern Ukraine, listening out for shelling in case...

By Kanishka Singh (Reuters) -The United States said on Monday it was offering a reward of up to $10 million...

By Anton Zverev DONETSK, Ukraine (Reuters) - An influential separatist commander in eastern Ukraine has urged Russia to send 30,000...

By Tiemoko Diallo BAMAKO (Reuters) - Mali's government has asked the West African Economic and Monetary Union (UEMOA) to lift...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - The fate of nuclear arms controls talks between Russia and the United States will to a large...

By Saud Mehsud DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan (Reuters) - Militants firing from inside Afghanistan killed at least five Pakistani soldiers...

By Gul Yousafzai QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) - Twenty militants and nine soldiers were killed in recent days during insurgent attacks...