Terrorism
Monday, December 2, 2013 - 08:35
THE roads are thick with traffic and pavements throng with hawkers selling phonecards, sunglasses and leather sandals. At night, street corners are lit up with a red glow from grills cooking spicy meat. But the bustle of Kano, Nigeria’s second-biggest city and the commercial capital of the north, masks an uncomfortable reality: northern Nigeria is in steep decline.
Monday, December 2, 2013 - 08:22
The militants attacked an army checkpoint at the western entrance to the town of Sayun, the second largest town in the province of Hadramawt.
Monday, December 2, 2013 - 07:36
Yemen began enforcing a temporary ban on motorbikes in the capital on Sunday to prevent “shoot and scoot” attacks as Al Qaeda suspects on a bike elsewhere killed an army officer.
Monday, December 2, 2013 - 07:10
Israeli officials had said the three men killed on Tuesday belonged to an al Qaeda-linked cell plotting attacks on Israeli and Palestinian targets.
Wednesday, November 27, 2013 - 10:34
Following his return to his native Tunisia, he was tasked by al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) with supplying weapons to the organisation.
Wednesday, November 27, 2013 - 10:24
The group has used such designations to force out moderates in areas under its control, whether they are local councillors, opposition activists or even fellow rebels.
Wednesday, November 27, 2013 - 07:49
Gunmen opened fire on four villages in central Nigeria early on Tuesday, killing 37 people in the latest tit-for-tat violence in ethnically and religiously divided Plateau state.
Wednesday, November 27, 2013 - 07:35
Military says 37 killed in Plateau region of country, where Muslims and Christians have clashed previously.
Tuesday, November 26, 2013 - 09:48
Iraq is hunting militants, still unidentified, who led a deadly attack on an Iranian dissident camp near Baghdad and dismisses suggestions its own security forces were behind the violence, a senior government official said.
Tuesday, November 26, 2013 - 09:35
Gunmen killed the director of the training department in the police collage in Sana'a on Tuesday.