Wanted: Hersi was one of eight senior al-Shabab men for whom the US offered a total $33million reward A leader of the Islamic extremist group al-Shabab, who has a $3million (£1.9million) bou... Read more
The US-led coalition pounded the Islamic State group with 39 air strikes Thursday and Friday, including more than a dozen near the flashpoint Syrian town of Kobane. The 13 strikes conducted... Read more
The Sony hack scandal intensified Saturday when North Korea called President Obama “a monkey” and blamed the U.S. for shutting down its internet. » COMPLETE COVERAGE: Sony Pictures Hacked Ov... Read more
The mayor of Berkeley, a St. Louis suburb, called for calm on Wednesday following violent protests that erupted one day after a suburban St. Louis police officer shot a black 18-year-old who... Read more
Al-Jazeera announced the decision to stop broadcasts temporarily live on air on 22 December 2014 Al-Jazeera said it would incorporate Mubasher Misr into a new regional station The Qatari-own... Read more
Cameroon’s army has dismantled a training camp for the Boko Haram Islamist group, arresting or killing dozens of militants and seizing 84 children who were being trained there, the arm... Read more
The war against ISIS is taking a dangerous, perhaps inevitable turn. The terror organization has been keen to expand to southern Syria and the Syrian capital of Damascus. Now it says it has... Read more
Workers remove a poster-banner for “The Interview” from a billboard in Hollywood, California, December 18, 2014 a day after Sony announced it had no choice but to cancel the movi... Read more
An Afghan journalist who was seriously injured during a suicide attack on a French cultural centre died of his wounds in hospital on Sunday, officials said. One German man was also killed an... Read more
President Vladimir Putin let slip during his annual news conference Thursday that he “loves” and is loved in return, but refused to reveal the identity of his mystery partner. Asked by a jou... Read more
