At least 26 Afghan soldiers have been killed and 13 wounded in a Taliban attack on a military base in southern Kandahar province, the defence ministry said Wednesday, the latest blow to the country's struggling security forces. The militants "attacked an army camp in Karzali area of Khakrez...

 Suspected Boko Haram insurgents have kidnapped 10 members of a geological research team from the University of Maiduguri in northeast Nigeria, the state oil company, which contracted the work, said on Wednesday. The Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) has been surveying for more...

Draft new U.S. sanctions against Russia leave no room to improve ties between Moscow and Washington in the near future and take the relationship into uncharted waters, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said, the Interfax news agency reported. The U.S. House of Representatives...

President Nicolas Maduro's adversaries are to stage a two-day national strike from Wednesday in a final push to pressure him into abandoning a weekend election for a super-congress they say will institutionalize autocracy in Venezuela. Millions participated in a 24-hour shutdown last week,...