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Algerian People’s National Army Order of battle Overview Defence economics State of military forces Country threat report External deployments   Order of battle Total...

Chad has decided to recall half of its 1 200 troops battling Islamist militants in the tri-border area of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger,...

The san(JSCI) Chairperson Jerome Maake has recently received an approval from the Houses of Parliament to embark on an inquiry into allegations of intelligence...

President Vladimir Putin inspected a prototype of a new Sukhoi fifth-generation fighter jet on Tuesday that Russia unveiled at its annual MAKS air show...

Stopping the billion-dollar illegal trade will require both countries taking existing and new law enforcement efforts more seriously. Cameroon loses about 33 billion CFA francs...

Chinese researchers want to send more than 20 of China's largest rockets to practice turning away a sizable asteroid - a technique that may...

An annual US State Department report released on Thursday said discriminatory policies perpetuated human trafficking, drawing a link with systemic racism in the United...

Afghan scrap dealers are picking over the detritus of the two-decade US military intervention in Afghanistan, collecting whatever they can of value from heaps...

Intense fighting in the northern Afghan province of Kunduz killed at least 28 civilians and injured 290 this week, according to hospital officials, as...

Brazil’s JBS SA told the US government that a ransomware attack on the company that disrupted meat production in North America and Australia originated...

Egypt and Turkey on Thursday held talks on the conflict in Libya, where they back competing factions, on Syria and the security situation in...

Egyptian Armed Forces 1. Order of battle 2. Overview 3. Defence economics 4. State of military forces 5. Country threat reports 6. Major external deployments   Order of Battle Total Force Strength   Army:...

Somalia’s president has signed a controversial law extending his mandate for two years, the state news agency reported, setting the Horn of Africa nation...

Twelve people, possibly foreigners, were found beheaded following an attack claimed by Islamic State on the northern Mozambique town of Palma, a local police...

At least ten people were killed on Saturday when a suicide bomber struck makeshift kiosks in the Somali capital, hitting hours after al Shabaab...

Gunmen in northwest Nigeria kidnapped around 30 students overnight from a forestry college near a military academy, three students said on Friday, in the...

Cameroonian authorities arrested opposition leader Maurice Kamto his lawyer said after weekend protests security forces dispersed with live bullets, wounding six people. Kamto has been...

Opposition leader Felix Tshisekedi called for national reconciliation as he became Democratic Republic of Congo’s president, succeeding Joseph Kabila in Congo’s first transfer of...

Democratic Republic of Congo outgoing President Joseph Kabila will hand over power “without regret” and called on Congolese to support his successor, Felix Tshisekedi. Kabila...

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has asked the U.N. Security Council for 1,030 more peacekeepers for Central African Republic after the mission...

In a statement read by a masked gunman, 10 armed Palestinian factions jointly condemned on Thursday an Egyptian decision to list the...

One person was killed in an attack on a restaurant north of Cairo on Thursday, Egypt's state news agency MENA reported. A fire...

Chad's army said it had killed more than 200 militants from Boko Haram on Tuesday in a battle in the northeastern Nigerian...

An Egyptian court sentenced prominent liberal activist Ahmed Douma to life in prison on Wednesday, judicial sources said, part of a sustained...

Cameroon's army killed at least 50 Boko Haram insurgents on Wednesday and lost six of its own soldiers in clashes with the...

At a remote spot in the Sinai desert last month, a commander of Egypt's most feared Islamist group outlined his hopes of...

Egyptian troops fired warning shots over the frontier into Gaza on Tuesday after a bomb exploded on Gaza territory near an Egyptian...

French military aircraft are carrying out surveillance missions to help countries bordering Nigeria tackle Boko Haram militants, officials said on Tuesday, amid...

Chadian troops clashed with Boko Haram fighters in the northeastern Nigerian town of Gambaru on Tuesday in a bid to break the...

An Egyptian police officer has been detained on suspicion of killing a suspected member of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood in hospital, the...

Cairo airport authorities tightened security after finding two bombs near the arrivals hall and a homemade explosive device exploded in the centre...

An Egyptian court sentenced 183 supporters of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood to death on Monday on charges of killing police officers, part...

Chadian forces have killed 120 militants from Boko Haram in a battle in the north of neighbouring Cameroon that began when the...

Two women were killed by a rocket-propelled grenade while another died in crossfire between militants and security forces in two separate incidents...

Al Jazeera journalist Peter Greste was released from a Cairo jail on Sunday and left Egypt after 400 days in prison on...

An Egyptian court on Saturday banned the armed wing of the Palestinian group Hamas and listed it as a terrorist organisation. The ruling...

Troops from Chad have driven Boko Haram fighters from a northern Nigeria border town seized by the Islamist militants late last year,...

A group of women protested in Cairo on Thursday against the death of Shaimaa Sabbagh and around 25 other activists allegedly killed...

Islamic State's Egypt wing claimed responsibility for a series of attacks that killed at least 27 on Thursday in some of the...

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi cut short a visit to Ethiopia for an African Union summit on Friday, after Islamic State's Egyptian...

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi cut short a visit to the Ethiopian capital for an African Union summit, following a wave of...

The governments of Egypt, Syria and Iraq used real and perceived security threats in 2014 as an excuse to downplay or abandon...

The government of Central African Republic said on Thursday it rejected a ceasefire deal made in Kenya between two militia groups aimed...

The African Union (AU) might grant a mandate as early as this week for a regional military force to combat Islamist Boko...

The French army has deployed 16 VBCI wheeled armoured vehicles to support its forces in the Central African Republic (CAR), where it...

The guided missile frigate Linyi from the Chinese Navy's 19th anti-piracy escort task force has docked in Djibouti for a five day...

An Egyptian court upheld three-year jail sentences on Tuesday for three prominent liberal activists, judicial sources said, after days of violence around...

The Algerian People's National Army (PNA) says it has destroyed a total of 758 607 anti-personnel mines and land-mines along the country's...

‘Our mission is to hunt down Boko Haram, and we have all the means to do that.' These were the stirring words...

One person was killed by a car bomb, parked near a police station by suspected Islamist militants, in the Egyptian city of...