The U.S. military says it carried out a drone strike this week against al-Shabab in Somalia, shortly after the extremist group was blamed for the country's deadliest attack. The U.S. Africa Command tells The Associated Press that the strike occurred Monday about 56 kilometers...

ANKARA (Reuters) - Twelve people were wounded when a bomb hit a police vehicle in Turkey’s southern Mersin province on Tuesday, broadcaster NTV said, an attack authorities described as the work of terrorists. The attack took place on the street where the local governor’s office is...

Somalia is in desperate need for donated blood to treat survivors of a truck bombing in the capital Mogadishu Saturday that killed more than 300 people and injured at least 400 others, a minister said. The bombing was one of the worst such attacks in Somalia. Officials said it bore the...

Britain, Turkey and the African Union on Sunday strongly condemned the weekend suicide bombing in Somalia, the worst attack to date with at least 200 deaths. Saturday's blast occurred at a junction in Hodan, a bustling commercial district of the capital Mogadishu which has many shops,...