KIGALI, Rwanda (AA) – At least 10 soldiers were killed and around 50 others wounded when suspected terrorists attacked an army base in Burkina Faso’s Sahel region on Monday, the army said. The attack targeted the 14th Inter-Arms Regiment in Djibo. A provisional assessment showed that 10 soldiers were killed in the fighting and about [&he...
JOHANNESBURG (AA) – The US and the UK have warned their citizens against traveling to Nigeria, saying there is an elevated risk of terror attacks in the West African country’s capital Abuja. “Avoid all non-essential travel or movement,” the US embassy in Abuja said in a security alert. Nigeria has been battling terrorist groups. Th...
OVIEDO, Spain (AA) – A Spanish court sentenced a man whom the ISIS told to carry out a drone attack on Barcelona’s Camp Nou football stadium to three years behind bars on Monday. Police arrested Mohammed Yassi Amrani in May 2020, during the depths of Spain’s strict COVID-19 lockdown. Spain’s Interior Ministry said he was […]
ISLAMABAD (AA) – At least 11 people, including three Pakistani soldiers, were killed in two separate terror attacks in northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, officials said. According to the Pakistan army, three of its soldier were killed in a cross-border attack from Afghanistan in the Kurram district near the Afghan border on Tuesday. “Te...
IDLIB, Syria (AA) – Five civilians were killed and eight others injured in an airstrike carried out by Russian warplanes on the Idlib de-escalation zone on Thursday. Four Russian warplanes took off from the Hmeymim air base in Latakia and carried out a total of 16 attacks on the quarry in the village of Hafsarjah […]
HOUSTON, Texas (AA) – El Shafee Elsheikh, the ISIS man who was part of a group known as the “Beatles,” was sentenced on Friday by a US court to eight consecutive life terms in prison for torturing and murdering four American nationals. “With today’s verdict, we finally have a bit of justice,” Diane Foley, the [&he...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – At least 10 people were killed and 15 others wounded after al-Qaeda-affiliated group al-Shabaab attacked a popular hotel on Friday night in the Somali capital Mogadishu, a security official said on Saturday. A security official, asked not to be named due to security restrictions, told Anadolu Agency over phone t...
ISLAMABAD (AA) – The death toll from Wednesday’s explosion in a Kabul mosque rose to 21, an Afghan official said on Thursday. In a statement, Kabul police spokesman Khalid Zadran said that 21 people were killed and 33 others wounded in the explosion. “The bomb explosion occurred at the Abu Bakr al Sadiq Mosque when […]
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – Several al-Shabaab members were killed when the Somali army conducted a military operation against the al-Qaeda-linked group in the central region of Hiran, liberating the group’s stronghold, an official said on Sunday. A military official in the region told Anadolu Agency over the phone that during the operatio...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – A US airstrike in central Somalia has killed 13 al-Shabaab fighters, Somali officials and state media said on Sunday. The airstrike destroyed hideouts in the Hiran region, military officials told Anadolu Agency, requesting anonymity as they were not authorized to speak to the media. The operation was conducted in coor...