Tag: militants

French special forces killed around 10 militants in a gun battle in northern Mali this month, Paris said on Thursday, as simmering...

The U.S. raid to snatch a top al Qaeda suspect off a Tripoli street confirmed what many Libyans already feared: Post-revolution chaos...

Fighter jets have bombed camps belonging to suspected Islamist militants in northeast Nigeria in response to a massacre of students at an...

Unidentified militants shot down a military helicopter in northern Iraq on Wednesday, killing all four crew members, police sources said. The helicopter was...

The Obama administration has signaled it will cooperate with a controversial congressional inquiry into alleged threats posed by "home-grown" Islamic militants that...

Militants attacked the northern Iraqi town of Hawija with car bombs and mortars in an assault that killed four insurgents and wounded...

Unidentified fighter jets bombed three Islamist militant bases in Somalia residents and soldiers said, as neighbouring Kenya continued its assault on the...

Al Shabaab militants have begun pulling out of at least two rebel enclaves in central Somalia after neighbouring Ethiopia sent hundreds of...

The Turkish military said its forces had killed 49 Kurdish militants in the southeast over the last two days, during an offensive...

Militants fired two missiles at a rally led by the governor of Pakistan's northwestern Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province killing one person and wounding four,...

A US drone strike killed at least 21 suspected militants in Pakistan's North Waziristan region officials said, just days after Pakistan...

South Africa has launched an offensive to counter mainly European media reports and as well as what it considers unfounded concerns that...

Mumbai's police paraded past some of the city's landmarks in a show of strength as India's financial hub marked the first anniversary...