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The Nigerian Army said troops of Operation Hadin Kai on Wednesday foiled an attempted attack on Babangida town in Yobe by terrorists belonging to Boko Haram and Islamic State in West Africa Province (ISWAP). According to Brig.-Gen. Onyema Nwachukwu, terrorists Read More …
U.S. military officials said the United States “will continue to coordinate” with the Taliban in providing safe passage to the airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, where suicide bombers carried out an attack that killed 12 U.S. service members and injured 15 Read More …
There is a “very high risk of a terrorist attack” against the evacuation operation by the UK, US and other allied forces in Kabul, according to a senior British source. The group that is of most concern is an Islamic Read More …
A soldier has been injured after a pipe bomb was tossed into a military base in Yala, the “deep south” province near the Malaysian border with occasional violence related to the religious separatist insurgency. The incident occurred last night and Read More …
An Islamic State (IS) suicide bomber attacked on Sunday a security checkpoint belonging to the eastern-based army in the southeastern Libyan town Zalla, without causing any casualties. “An IS suicide bomber attacked the Zalla checkpoint with a car bomb, causing Read More …
An army captain was killed and two soldiers were injured in a roadside explosion in Pakistan’s southwestern Balochistan province on Sunday, the military said. An army vehicle was struck by an improvised explosive device in remote Gichik area, said a Read More …
The bomber struck shortly after noon in front of a convoy of Kenyan troops. Residents said the blast caused casualties to Kenyan troops but could not confirm the exact number of casualties. After the blast, Kenyan forces reportedly fired several Read More …
Fifteen Malian soldiers were killed and 10 others wounded when a booby trapped vehicle exploded Thursday in Mali’s central Mopti region, the Defense Ministry said. “The convoy of the Malian Armed Forces (FAMa) leaving Douentza for Boni was the target Read More …
Two children were killed while three others, including a Chinese national, injured in a suicide attack targeting a vehicle carrying Chinese nationals near the East Bay Expressway in Gwadar, Balochistan on Friday. Just a month after the attack on the Read More …
At least two people have been killed and five others wounded after a suicide bomber detonated an explosive device inside a cafe in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu, police and witnesses said. The bombing on Thursday targeted a tea shop near a Read More …
At least four people have been killed in a grenade attack on an Ashura mourning procession of Shi’ite Muslims in eastern Pakistan. A spokesman for the Shi’ite organization Majlis-e-Wahdat Muslimeen told RFE/RL’s Radio Mashaal that several people were also injured Read More …
A 45-year-old villager died in an IED explosion in Judwani forest in Jharkhand’s Gumla district on Wednesday night. Police on Thursday dispatched a team to the incident site, over 70km from the district headquarters, to begin probe after learning about Read More …
UN counter-terrorism chief Vladimir Voronkov presented the Secretary-General’s latest report on the threats posed by terrorist groups, saying that Da’esh continues to exploit the disruption, grievances and development setbacks caused by the pandemic to regroup, recruit new followers and intensify Read More …
A local official in the Somali capital Mogadishu was killed and several people wounded on Tuesday when a bomb blast targeted his vehicle, a police official said. “A vehicle carrying Garasbaley officials including Commissioner Mohamed Abukar Afrah was hit by Read More …
Referring to the continuous threat of drones from the international border adjoining Pakistan in Jammu and Kashmir and Punjab, Border Security Force (BSF) Rajasthan Frontier on Monday said there is the possibility of threats in villages closer to border areas Read More …
The Taliban’s swift takeover of Afghanistan has raised concerns that it could encourage other Islamist militant groups around the world, such as al-Shabab in Somalia. Experts warn that when and if international forces there try to hand over security to Read More …
Three Turkish soldiers have been killed and two were wounded by explosives planted by fighters in northern Iraq, Turkey’s defence ministry said. The ministry said on Monday the incident took place the day before in a region where Turkey was Read More …
Afghanistan is on the brink of a total Taliban takeover and President Ashraf Ghani has fled the country. The Taliban reached the outskirts of the capital Kabul earlier on Sunday, but said fighters were now being sent into the city. Read More …
The United Nations Children Emergency Fund (UNICEF), on Saturday, condemned the killing of three children in Borno State reportedly by Improvised Explosive Device (IED), which are part of remnants of war in the North-East region. UNICEF expressed worry that the Read More …
A roadside bomb exploded late Thursday in the restive northern part of the Sinai Peninsula, killing seven members of Egypt’s security forces, security and medical officials said. The dead included an officer, and six others were wounded. The troops were Read More …