Insurgencies

KABUL (Reuters) - Suspected Taliban fighters killed an Afghan radio station manager in Kabul and kidnapped a journalist in southern...

KABUL (Reuters) -Taliban fighters overran three provincial capitals including the strategic northeastern city of Kunduz on Sunday, local officials said,...

OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) - At least 12 soldiers were killed in an attack in northwestern Burkina Faso on Sunday and seven...

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -Mozambican and Rwandan security forces have recaptured the port town of Mocimboa da Praia, an insurgents' stronghold, the...

KABUL (Reuters) -An Afghan Air Force pilot was killed by a bomb in Kabul on Saturday, officials said, in an...

KABUL (Reuters) -Taliban insurgents captured an Afghan provincial capital and killed the government's senior media officer in Kabul on Friday...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The State Department on Friday announced the addition of five alleged Islamist militants to its Specially Designated...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Recent actions by the Taliban will not help them gain international legitimacy, the White House said on...

By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) -The U.N. special envoy for Afghanistan on Friday questioned the Taliban's commitment to a...

By Yew Lun Tian BEIJING (Reuters) -The Taliban cannot be trusted to keep their promise to China not to harbour...

By Abdul Qadir Sediqi and Gul Yousafzai KABUL/QUETTA (Reuters) - The Taliban closed a key border crossing with Pakistan on...

KABUL (Reuters) - The city of Zaranj in Afghanistan's Nimroz province fell to the Taliban on Friday, provincial police said,...

KADUNA, Nigeria (Reuters) - At least 2.3 million children and youth are going hungry in northeast Nigeria where an Islamist...

KABUL/PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - Taliban militants have switched strategy from targeting rural areas of Afghanistan to attacking provincial cities, in...

N'DJAMENA (Reuters) -At least 26 Chadian soldiers were killed in the early hours of Thursday by suspected Boko Haram assailants...

By Thiam Ndiaga OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) - An armed group in northern Burkina Faso killed 30 civilians, army soldiers and pro-government...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Taliban offensive in Afghanistan is "gradually running out of steam" as the group lacks resources to...

(Reuters) -A Myanmar militia force fighting the army in a central part of the country and residents have found at...

LAGOS (Reuters) - Security forces killed at least 115 people in southeast Nigeria this year and arbitrarily arrested or tortured...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The United Nations is 'deeply concerned' about the safety and protection of tens of thousands of...