Insurgencies

NIAMEY (Reuters) - Armed men on motorbikes killed 14 people in a part of western Niger where Islamist militants have...

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - An Iraqi paramilitary group said on Monday one of its ammunition depots came under drone attack near...

(Corrects perpetrators of the school abductions in second paragraph to remove reference to Islamist militants) KADUNA, Nigeria (Reuters) -Kidnappers who...

By Elizabeth Culliford (Reuters) - A counterterrorism organization formed by some of the biggest U.S. tech companies including Facebook and...

KABUL (Reuters) -The United States will to continue to carry out airstrikes to support Afghan forces facing attack from the...

BAMAKO (Reuters) - A man accused of attempting to stab Mali's interim President Assimi Goita last week has died in...

KABUL (Reuters) - Nearly 2,400 Afghan civilians were killed or injured in May and June as fighting between Taliban insurgents...

ABUJA (Reuters) - Armed bandits in Nigeria have seized a negotiator who had been sent to pay ransom money to...

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi said on Sunday troops fighting the Islamic State-linked insurgency in its northern province...

By Idrees Ali EIELSON AIR FORCE BASE, Alaska (Reuters) - U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said on Saturday that the...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden on Friday authorized up to $100 million from an emergency fund to meet "unexpected...

DOUALA (Reuters) - At least six Cameroonian soldiers were killed and four wounded during an attack by Islamist insurgents on...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -With the last U.S. forces on the way out of Afghanistan, U.S. President Joe Biden assured President Ashraf...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. military said it carried out an airstrike on Friday against al Shabaab militants in Somalia,...

(Reuters) - The United States condemns the Taliban's targeted attacks on former interpreters and other Afghans as well as the...

BENI, Congo (Reuters) - At least 16 people, including six women and two children, have been killed in a suspected...

KABUL (Reuters) - The United States has carried out air strikes to support Afghan government forces who have been under...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia will help its ally Tajikistan build a new outpost on the Tajik-Afghan border, a senior Russian...

DUSHANBE (Reuters) - Tajikistan is preparing to take in up to 100,000 refugees from neighbouring Afghanistan where fighting has escalated...

(Refiles to correct typographical error in 2nd paragraph - "military" instead of "militarily") By Phil Stewart and Idrees Ali KABUL...