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Incident at US base in Britain not terror-related: police
Dec 18, 2017 (AFP)
RAF Mildenhall is home to the US Air Force's 100th air refuelling wing and the base was briefly locked down after a car was driven into a checkpoint gate. "Poli...
Islamic State: What happened to all the foreign fighters?
Dec 16, 2017 (AFP)
A few hundred are believed to still be fighting as IS struggles to survive, having lost most of its territory to campaigns by Western-backed Syrian and Iraqi co...
Two Danish nationals wounded in Gabon knife attack
Dec 16, 2017 (AFP)
The two men, who were reporters for the National Geographic magazine, were stabbed while shopping in a popular tourist area, said defence minister Etienne Massa...
Sahel force funding shows Saudi 'serious' on terrorism fight: analysts
Dec 15, 2017 (AFP)
The new G5 Sahel force pools troops from Burkina Faso, Mali, Mauritania and Niger in an area of desert the size of Europe where extremist groups have been thriv...
Nigerian soldier sentenced to death for killing civilians
Dec 15, 2017 (AFP)
The soldier, Lance Corporal John Godwin, was convicted by the General Court Martial in Maiduguri, capital of Borno State for killing the civilians in Yamteke to...
US, Saudi-bought arms from EU fell into IS hands: monitor
Dec 14, 2017 (AFP)
"The United States and Saudi Arabia supplied most of this materiel without authorisation, apparently to Syrian opposition forces," said Conflict Armament Resear...
Nigerian soldiers warned after Boko Haram attack
Dec 14, 2017 (AFP)
A message sent to all military bases across the region called for "all units and troops to remain at alert and not be taken by surprise". Two armoured cars and ...
Boko Haram tries to take over military base in NE Nigeria
Dec 13, 2017 (AFP)
A former local government official, a civilian militia member and a motorist who witnessed the shooting said the Islamist militants tried to storm the outpost i...
Gulf pours 130mn euros into Sahel anti-jihadist force
Dec 13, 2017 (AFP)
The G5 Sahel force brings together troops from Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania and Niger -- some of the poorest countries in the world -- and money had bee...
NATO holds CBRN training course in Kuwait
Dec 13, 2017 (UPI)
The training, consisting of lectures and a table-top exercise to develop security standards for the aftermath of CBRN incidents, took place at the NATO-Istanbul...
US air strike destroys vehicle bomb outside Mogadishu
Dec 12, 2017 (AFP)
The strike occurred about 65 kilometers (40 miles) southwest of Mogadishu and comes after as many as 512 people were killed in a massive truck bombing in Octobe...
Six Nigerian soldiers killed in Boko Haram ambushes
Dec 11, 2017 (AFP)
Four troops were killed and 12 injured on Sunday when their convoy was attacked near Damboa, 90 kilometres (56 miles) from Maiduguri, the capital of Borno state...
IS battle may be won, but Iraq faces major challenges
Dec 10, 2017 (AFP)
It has taken a long and devastating campaign to wipe IS from the map after the jihadists threatened Iraq's very existence by seizing roughly one third of its te...
'Defeated' IS still poses danger in Iraq
Dec 09, 2017 (AFP)
Three years after proclaiming a cross-border "caliphate" stretching into Syria, the jihadists' brutal rule over a third of Iraqi territory is consigned to histo...
IS cut back from 'caliphate' to pockets of land
Dec 09, 2017 (AFP)
Forces backed by a US-led coalition have ousted the jihadists from Iraqi bastions such as Mosul and the extremists also have lost control of their Syrian strong...
Nigeria appoints new chief to head Boko Haram fight
Dec 07, 2017 (AFP)
"A new commander has been appointed for Operation Lafiya Dole," army spokesman Brigadier General Sani Usman said in a statement, identifying him as former milit...
Niger to develop national security strategy to fight terror
Dec 06, 2017 (AFP)
During a forum of experts and military brass in the capital Niamey, the president's chief of staff, Ouhoumoudou Mahamadou, announced that the meeting marked the...
Fewer than 3,000 IS fighters left in Iraq, Syria: coalition
Dec 05, 2017 (AFP)
IS is currently fighting for survival in the handful of sparsely populated pockets of territory it still holds, a far cry from the vast swathes of ground it cap...
Bosnia puts jihadist arrested with weapons in detention
Dec 04, 2017 (AFP)
Emin Hodzic, 25, had already been sentenced last year to a year in prison for having joined the ranks of the Islamic State group in Syria in 2013 for three mont...
Half of Yazidis kidnapped by IS still missing
Dec 03, 2017 (AFP)
In 2014, IS jihadists killed thousands of Yazidis in Sinjar and kidnapped thousands of women and girls from the religious minority to abuse them as sex slaves. ...
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