Insurgencies

By Abdi Sheikh MOGADISHU (Reuters) -Two former presidents will face off against the incumbent in Somalia's long-delayed presidential vote on...

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Kurdish militants fired rockets and mortar shells from Syria in an attack on a military border post...

MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Almost 40 candidates have registered for Somalia's long-delayed presidential election on Sunday, to be decided by parliament...

LOME (Reuters) -Eight soldiers were killed and 13 wounded in an attack in northern Togo on Wednesday, the government said,...

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - At least seven soldiers were killed and two others were missing in Nigeria after they were...

BENI, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) - At least 14 people were killed in an overnight attack on a displaced...

By Phil Stewart CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi expressed hopes for deeper U.S. counter-terrorism ties during talks...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Monday imposed sanctions on what it said was a network of five Islamic...

By Luis Jaime Acosta TUMACO/NORTE DE SANTANDER, Colombia (Reuters) - Emissaries of Mexican drug cartels are involving themselves more closely...

KINSHASA (Reuters) -Militants killed 35 civilians in an attack on an artisanal gold mining site in the Democratic Republic of...

CAIRO (Reuters) - Islamic State on Sunday claimed responsibility for a deadly attack that killed an officer and 10 Egyptian...

By Thiam Ndiaga OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) - Militants freed around 60 prisoners during an attack on a jail in northwest Burkina...

CAIRO (Reuters) -One officer and 10 Egyptian soldiers were killed on Saturday in Egypt's Sinai peninsula when militants attacked a...

(Reuters) - The conflict in Ukraine is taking a heavy toll on some of Russia's most capable units and most...

(Reuters) - Russian forces in Ukraine's Mariupol continued their ground assault on the Azovstal steel plant for a second day,...

(Reuters) - A Liberian man who U.S. authorities say served as general in a rebel group that sought to overthrow...

By Seun Sanni MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Tuesday he fully supported moves to expand...

(Reuters) - Russia has deployed 22 battalion tactical groups near Ukraine's eastern city of Izium in an effort to advance...

CONAKRY (Reuters) -The military junta in Guinea said its transition back to civilian rule will probably take more than three...

ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopia's state-appointed rights commission said on Monday it was investigating a video showing a group of...