Entering Kocho now is like stepping back in time. The buildings which were once family homes, are in ruins. Personal belongings lie among the rubble – shoes, pans and picture frames, the remnants of ...

Maiduguri, the former urban base of Boko Haram, has been revived. The new hotels, the streets choked with traffic, the ...

Switzerland will begin enforcing a new law on May 15 prohibiting Hamas and its affiliates. The law enables authorities to ...

Proxy wars, a phenomenon where ex­ternal powers support opposing sides in a conflict in order to influence the outcome of the conflict and advance their own strategic interests, have become a defining ...

Up to 10,000 fighters lent muscle during the overthrow of the Assad regime. But their hard-line interpretations of Sunni ...

Two bomb attacks in Nigeria this week killed at least 40 people, highlighting a surge in jihadist violence in the region.

The talks coincide with a U.S.-led effort to broker a peace agreement between Rwanda and the neighboring Democratic Republic ...

United Nations experts have urged Malian authorities to investigate reports of alleged summary executions and forced ...

Thousands of people rallied in Burkina Faso's capital Ouagadougou on Wednesday in support of the military junta after an ...

A statement from the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs said Russia’s GRU military intelligence agency has been carrying out attacks against French interests since at least 2015. Targets include ...

Five Indian citizens were kidnapped in western Niger during an attack last week by armed men that also killed a dozen soldiers, according to two Nigerian security sources and a statement by Indian ...

Baylor University's Institute for Studies of Religion and Harvard University's Human Flourishing Program, along with Gallup and the Center for Open Science, released on Wednesday the first findings of ...