At least 20 Somali government soldiers were killed and 18 others were wounded when al-Shabab raided a military base south of Mogadishu, security sources told VOA Somali.

The U.S. military killed eight Islamic State fighters yesterday in the first recorded airstrike against the group in more than one year.

Saudi Arabia on Wednesday said it would reveal evidence showing Iran was behind the attack on its oil facilities as Tehran threatened to retaliate “immediately” if any action is taken against it.

At least two people were killed and four others injured on Wednesday evening in a car bomb blast in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu, police and witnesses said.

Ten militants of terror group Boko Haram were killed when Cameroonian troops repelled a coordinated attack launched in the country’s Far North region, military sources said on Wednesday.

Yemen’s Houthi rebels, who have been at war with a Saudi-Emirati coalition since 2015, claimed responsibility for coordinated attacks on two Saudi Aramco facilities on Sept. 14, 2019.

Over the past few days, both al Qaeda’s Group for Support of Islam and Muslims (JNIM) and the Islamic State’s West African Province (ISWA) have claimed deadly assaults in Burkina Faso.

Visé par un mandat d’arrêt de la Cour pénale internationale (CPI) depuis 2012, le chef militaire des rebelles hutus des Forces Démocratiques de Libération du Rwanda (FDLR), Sylvestre Mudacumura, a été tué dans la nuit