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Friday, December 5, 2014 - 06:37
President Enrique Peña Nieto has visited the tumultuous southern state of Guerrero for the first time since 43 college students disappeared there more than two months ago, provoking the greatest crisis of his presidency.
Friday, December 5, 2014 - 06:30
The heads of two prominent Sunni Anbar tribes expressed unease about the prospect of cooperating with the US against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) on Wednesday, and repeated calls for the Iraqi government to support them with funds, weapons, and ammunition.
Friday, December 5, 2014 - 06:27
The Republican-controlled House approved a $585 billion defense policy bill that grants President Barack Obama the authority to expand the U.S. military campaign against Islamic militants in Iraq and Syria despite misgivings about a new American combat role after more than a decade of war.
Friday, December 5, 2014 - 06:23
The Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) issued a statement Wednesday criticising a new anti-terrorism bill and urging the president not to ratify it, describing it as "unconstitutional."
Friday, December 5, 2014 - 06:10
The Obama administration plans to keep hundreds of extra troops in Afghanistan on a temporary basis next year, above the force of 9,800 that President Obama had previously announced for 2015, in another sign of the challenges the United States faces as it extricates itself from a 13-year war.
Friday, December 5, 2014 - 06:04
But, once gain, I am sure, little attention will be paid to trying to understand the attacks themselves beyond a lazy assumption that al-Shabaab is ‘evil’ and that they want to incite religious war for the sake of it. Such attitudes will not take Kenya very far. What is al-Shabaab’s strategic goal? And what is Kenya’s strategy to counter it?
Friday, December 5, 2014 - 06:02
Terrorism suspects may be held by police for longer periods before being taken to court, held incommunicado and denied bail once charged if tough new security laws are passed to aid the war against terrorism.
Friday, December 5, 2014 - 06:01
There has been chaos and confusion in the Nigerian cities of Kano and Maiduguri as Boko Haram carried out a series of suicide bombings.
Friday, December 5, 2014 - 05:58
The Chadian Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr. Isah Braimah, yesterday, exonerated his country of funding or arming the Boko Haram insurgents.
Friday, December 5, 2014 - 05:57
Sudan has imposed tighter controls on a massive, troubled U.N. peacekeeping force while trying to pressure it to leave the country, and it claims allegations of a mass rape in Darfur that have strained relations have been found to be not true.