A majority of the House Freedom Caucus voted to support Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) for House speaker during a closed-door meeting Wednesday evening, apparently putting to rest a tumultuous spea... Read more
Former President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan leave Nigeria for Dar es Salaam, Tanzania on Monday (today) as head of 54-member nations of the Commonwealth international observers monitoring th... Read more
The leader of last month’s failed coup in Burkina Faso, General Gilbert Diendere, has been charged with crimes against humanity, a senior military justice official said on Friday. The... Read more
Tensions ran high in Israel on Friday as Palestinians rioters in the occupied West Bank set fire to a Jewish shrine near Nablus and a Palestinian who had disguised himself as a journalist st... Read more
Subscribe Hunted: The German national poses with the dead elephant and his guide One of the biggest elephants in Africa has been killed by a Western hunter in Zimbabwe, less than three month... Read more
The United States is sending 300 troops, along with surveillance drones, to Cameroon to bolster a West African effort to counter the Nigerian militant Islamist group Boko Haram, US officials... Read more
President Barack Obama is fairly certain of one thing when it comes to next year’s election: Donald Trump won’t succeed him in the White House. The billionaire businessman, the f... Read more
U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary ClintonPhoto: Reuters Hillary is furious — and while Clinton advisers think that may save her, it’s making the lives of those who work for her... Read more
Three explosions masterminded by the Nigerian jihadist group Boko Haram have killed 37 people Saturday in a Chadian city on the shores of Lake Chad, security sources said. Another 52 people... Read more
Russian warships in the Caspian Sea fired 26 high-tech cruise missiles at rebel targets in Syria—a staggering 1,000 miles away. The missiles in question, which the Pentagon calls SS-N-30s,... Read more