At least 13 suspected Boko Haram militants and three civilians were killed in separate attacks over the weekend after the insurgents raided several remote localities around Lake Chad, Chadian security sources said on Monday. The insurgents are also suspected of kidnapping some 30...

ISIS fighters on Monday have withdrawn from their last stronghold near Kobani town in the eastern countryside of Aleppo after a fierce fighting with Free Syria Army and Kurdish People’s Protection Units, according to Zaman al-Wasl. The radical Sunni group dubbed its withdrawal’ from the...

A truce appeared to be holding on Monday in Yemen's capital Sanaa, the target of near-nightly air raids during a fourth-month-old war, with residents saying the city had passed a quiet night. There were clashes early on Monday in Marib and Taiz provinces to the south, however,...

The Somali militant Islamist group al Shabaab attacked a Mogadishu hotel on Sunday, driving a car packed with explosives through the hotel gate and killing at least 13 people, a first responder and the rebel group said. A Reuters witness said blood and pieces of flesh were...