Syrian regime military backed by Russian warplanes have killed more than 150 people in eastern Aleppo this week, rescue workers said, part of a renewed bombardment supporting an offensive to seize the city's shattered rebel-held sector. As air strikes and shelling of the city's east...

Overnight shelling and over a dozen airstrikes on rebel-held parts of the Syrian city of Aleppo killed at least 11 people, bringing the death toll over the last three days in the embattled city to at least 65, activists said Thursday. Meanwhile, rebel shelling of government-held areas in the...

At least seven soldiers were killed and six seriously wounded in a bomb attack on a Somali military convoy Thursday “The bomb was a remote-controlled land mine which targeted a Somali military forces convoy heading to Baidoa from a Somali national army base in Doynunay,” Haji Mohamed...

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi denied on Thursday Ethiopian accusations that his country was supporting the opposition after a wave of violent protests that left hundreds dead. Ethiopia accused "elements" in Eritrea, Egypt and elsewhere on Monday of being behind protests over land...