Insurgencies

KADUNA, Nigeria (Reuters) - Kidnappers are demanding a ransom of one million naira each to release around 80 children snatched...

KABUL (Reuters) -An explosion near the office of Afghanistan's main security agency wounded three people on Wednesday, hours after a...

BEIRUT (Reuters) -One person died and three were injured when a fire broke out on a military bus in a...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States said on Tuesday that one of many concerns about Afghanistan is that it could...

KABUL (Reuters) -Taliban fighters pushed deeper into the southern Afghan provincial capital of Lashkargah on Monday and closed in on...

NIAMEY (Reuters) - Fifteen soldiers were killed as a result of an ambush in southwestern Niger on Saturday, the country's...

By Suleiman Al-Khalidi AMMAN (Reuters) - Syrian troops stepped up shelling of an opposition enclave in the southern city of...

CAIRO (Reuters) - Eight Egyptian army soldiers have been killed in anti-terrorism operations, the armed forces said on Sunday. According...

KABUL (Reuters) -Taliban fighters struck Kandahar airport in southern Afghanistan with at least three rockets overnight, the insurgent group's spokesman...

By Fayaz Bukhari SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) - The mastermind behind a 2019 attack that killed 40 Indian paramilitary troops has...

KABUL (Reuters) -"Anti-government elements" in Afghanistan attacked the main U.N. compound in the capital of the western province of Herat...

GAROWE, Somalia (Reuters) - An explosive planted on a bus carrying soccer players in Somalia's port city of Kismayo killed...

By Suleiman Al-Khalidi AMMAN (Reuters) - Syrian rebels waged a spate of mortar attacks on Syrian army checkpoints in the...

KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan villagers searched desperately for survivors after flash flood swept down a narrow valley in a Taliban-controlled...

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - An Iraqi army helicopter crashed during a combat operation in northern Iraq on Thursday, killing all five...

By Arshad Mohammed and Daphne Psaledakis WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States on Wednesday said it imposed sanctions on eight prisons...

KABUL (Reuters) -China told a visiting Taliban delegation on Wednesday it expected the insurgent group to play an important role...

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has authorised the use of 1,495 members of the military to help...

(Corrects spelling of reporter's name) DOUALA (Reuters) -Unidentified attackers killed five Cameroonian soldiers and one civilian during a raid on...

PARIS (Reuters) - NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said he had spoken to Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani to reassure him that...