Reuters (UK)
Wednesday, January 8, 2014 - 08:05
U.S. officials say they are in discussions with the Iraqi government about training its elite forces in a third country, which would allow the United States to provide one modest measure of new assistance against militants in the absence of a troop deal that allows U.S. soldiers to operate within Iraq.
Wednesday, January 8, 2014 - 07:48
Police say several people have been killed and injured near city where insurgent Boko Haram group is active. Gunmen have opened fire on worshippers at a mosque near the Nigerian city of Kano, killing three and wounding 12, witnesses and police say.
Wednesday, January 8, 2014 - 07:31
In an announcement on Tuesday, they also pledged to protect tankers loading crude, after the Libyan defense ministry said it would destroy vessels using ports in the east, which are under control of the protesters linked to a self-proclaimed regional government.
Wednesday, January 8, 2014 - 07:29
Turkey's deputy police chief has been sacked, the most senior commander yet targeted in a purge of a force heavily influenced by a cleric Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan accuses of plotting to seize the levers of state power.
Tuesday, January 7, 2014 - 08:49
Gunmen shot dead an army colonel and a car bomb injured a senior intelligence officer in Yemen's main port city of Aden on Tuesday, a security official said.
Tuesday, January 7, 2014 - 08:14
Tensions between tribes in Hadramawt and the government have been running high since early December, when an important chief was killed in a shooting at an army checkpoint, local media have reported.
Tuesday, January 7, 2014 - 08:11
The Iraqi army deployed tanks and artillery around Falluja on Tuesday, security officials said, as local leaders in the besieged city urged al Qaeda-linked militants to leave in order to avert an impending military assault.
Tuesday, January 7, 2014 - 08:10
"We are attempting to achieve a framework for a continuation of negotiations for a period exceeding the nine months in which some thought that we would be able to reach a permanent agreement," Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon told reporters.
Tuesday, January 7, 2014 - 08:00
In Egypt, it no longer appears to be a question of if, but when army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi will declare his candidacy for president
Tuesday, January 7, 2014 - 06:14
The Tunisian military have repeatedly hit Chaambi, a remote mountainous region a few kilometers (miles) from Algeria, since the start of 2013 after militants began trying to establish a refuge base there.