At the Lighthouse Grace Academy in Nairobi's downmarket Kwangware suburb, yellow school t-shirts carry the slogan 'To Fear God is Wisdom', but in their hands pupils clutch a more worldly path to knowledge: tablet computers. The hand-sized tablets are part of the 'Kio Kit', a...

(The Guardian)- Who would want to be a woman in Aleppo? The female population of Syria’s second city find themselves threatened both by the murderous misogynists of Islamic State (Isis) and the Russian allies of the president, Bashar al-Assad, whose bombing raids mean that now even bad...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Al Qaeda's Syria branch, the Nusra Front, said Sunday it has killed the commander of Yarmouk Martyrs Brigade, an ISIS loyal group operating in southern province of Daraa. The dominant jihadi group said on Twitter that ISIS man in Daraa Abu Ali al Braidi, (Dubbed: Al Khal),...

French fighter jets launched their biggest raids in Syria to date targeting the Islamic State's stronghold in Raqqa just two days after the group claimed coordinated attacks in Paris that killed more than 130 people, the defence ministry said. "The raid ... including 10 fighter jets, was...