Scores of police and regional government officials have been assassinated in recent months, part of the insurgents' campaign to try to instill fear ahead of the Jan. 30 vote and to hunt down people ...

MOGADISHU, Somalia-A loud explosion was heard outside a busy restaurant near Nasa Hablod hotel in the heart of Mogadishu on Friday noon, Garowe Online reports. Witnesses said a car packed with ...

MOGADISHU, Somalia - A loud explosion followed by sustained gunfire was heard in the downtown of Mogadishu, the Somali capital on Thursday evening, Garowe Online reports. Captain Mohamed Dahir, a ...

Kurdish forces, helped by U.S. and allied air support, retook control of Kobani at the end of January after a four-month siege by Islamic State fighters, who have seized large parts of Syria and Iraq.

A senior Russian general was killed in Moscow on Monday when a bomb planted under his car exploded, investigators said, making him the third general killed by a car bomb in the past year. Lt. Gen.

ADEN, Yemen (AP) — Three people were killed on Wednesday when a car bomb exploded in an attack that appeared to target a leader of a Saudi-backed armed group in southern Yemen, according to witnesses ...

"There was a bomb blast in a Shell residential area in Port Harcourt," a source said. There was no indication if anyone was injured. The explosion followed a warning by a militant group that it was ...

Moscow — Three people, including two police officers, were killed in an explosion in Moscow on Wednesday, Russian investigators said, just days after a car bomb killed a high-ranking general not far ...