Daesh (ISIS) claimed responsibility for five attacks in an area it calls the "State of West Africa" which it said had resulted in 118 casualties in the last week. In a video posted late on Thursday, the militant group did not specify the number of people killed in attacks between Nov....

The head of the U.N.'s atomic watchdog has called on North Korea to allow inspectors back in to monitor its nuclear program. Speaking at a board meeting Thursday in Vienna of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Director General Yukiya Amano noted that Pyongyang had in September...

Israel's army censor warned Thursday against publishing photos released earlier in the day by Hamas, of eight people it claimed were part of a recent Israeli special forces operation in the Gaza Strip that turned deadly. Hamas’ armed wing called for information on the people in the...

Deaths from an outbreak this year of Lassa fever across 22 states in Nigeria are nearing 150, the country's center for disease control said on Thursday.  “Since the outbreaks, there have been 143 deaths in confirmed cases and 17 probable cases. The rate of fatality cases is...