As Iraqi forces continue their military operation to take Mosul from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS), another equally important battle to save the Mosul Dam, located 60km north of Mosul, is under way. After six months of frantic security and logistical preparations, an Italian company has kicked off the repair works to… Read more »
WASHINGTON/ALEPPO: US Secretary of State John Kerry accused the Syrian regime of Bashar Assad of carrying out “nothing short of a massacre” in Aleppo, where thousands were evacuated on Thursday from the last opposition bastion in a city besieged for years. Kerry, speaking at a news briefing, said the United States was seeking an immediate, verifiable, and durable cessation of… Read more »
MOTORCADES are not an unusual feature of African political life. But a hush fell in Serekunda, Gambia’s largest town, as the presidents of Ghana, Liberia, Nigeria and Sierra Leone sped by in black Rolls-Royces. Gambians hoped the region’s other heads of state would persuade their own erratic president to step down. Yahya Jammeh, who has ruled the tiny West African… Read more »
CAIRO — Egypt faced the prospect of a surge in sectarian bloodshed on Tuesday after the Islamic State claimed responsibility for the bombing of a Coptic cathedral in Cairo that killed 25 people on Sunday. The group warned of more attacks to come. As Christians gathered in churches to pay their respects to the victims, most of them women, the… Read more »
Nearly a dozen Arab nations accused Iran on Monday of sponsoring “terrorism” throughout the Middle East while increasing support for jihadist groups since signing the international nuclear deal last summer.
The first explosion came when two of the bombers tried to enter a camp holding more than 16,000 refugees from Boko Haram’s Islamic uprising at around 7 a.m. (0600 GMT), according to civilian self-defense fighter Dan Batta.
US oil company ExxonMobil says it has made a “significant discovery” of oil off the coast of Nigeria. In a tweet it says it could yield up to one billion barrels of oil. ExxonMobil ✔@exxonmobil #JustAnnounced an oil discovery of between 500M & 1B barrels offshore Nigeria. Find out more here http://news.exxonmobil.com/press-release/exxonmobil-announces-significant-oil-discovery-offshore-nigeria … 11:23 AM – 27 Oct 201 ExxonMobil operates… Read more »
A total of 145 child soldiers have been released on Wednesday by former rebel group of former South Sudanese First Vice President Riek Machar and another group in Pibor in eastern South Sudan. The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) confirmed the release of the children by former rebel movements SPLA-IO and the Cobra Faction. “Our hope is that their release today… Read more »
The group, which once ruled much of Somalia, wants to topple the Western-backed government in Mogadishu and drive out African AMISOM peacekeepers made up of soldiers from Kenya, Djibouti, Uganda, Ethiopia and other African nations.
During all my years in high school, I’ve never researched something so interesting. There’s a large scale terrorist-militant group known as Boko Haram operating in Nigeria, and it is being virtually ignored by the international community. “Boko Haram” not only has a strong grip on Nigeria, but has had a devastating effect on the people of Niger. Due to the… Read more »