A Lufthansa passenger jet that was hijacked to Somalia 40 years ago at the height of a far-left militant group's campaign against West German authorities has returned home. The dpa news agency reported that the Boeing 737 arrived Saturday in the German city of Friedrichshafen, ...
Thousands of Nigerians uprooted from their homes by the Boko Haram insurgency hit the streets of Maiduguri Sunday to protest food shortages and poor conditions in their refugee camp, demanding they be allowed to go home. More than 2.6 million people have been displaced by ...
Three United Nations soldiers from Bangladesh were killed by an explosive device that detonated as they were escorting a convoy in northern Mali on Sunday, the West African country's peacekeeping mission and Bangladesh's military said. Attacks on peacekeepers in Mali, where Islamist groups continue to ...
A home-made bomb which injured 30 when it partially detonated on a packed London train a week ago had the potential to cause much more damage, the head of the city's police force said on Friday. The bomb engulfed a train carriage in flames at ...
A 21-year-old man arrested over last week's London subway bombing was released without charge Thursday, British police said. Five other men remain in custody. The freed suspect, originally from Syria, was detained outside a fast-food restaurant in west London on Saturday, a day after the ...
A U.S.-backed force battling to oust the Islamic State group from its former Syrian stronghold Raqqa said Thursday that "victory is near" and would be declared in coming weeks. The Syrian Democratic Forces, an alliance of Kurdish and Arab fighters, broke into Raqqa city in ...
Abolishing militant hideouts in Pakistan is critical to establishing peace in neighboring Afghanistan, the Afghan leader said Thursday before meeting President Donald Trump on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly. Neither Trump nor Afghan President Ashraf Ghani mentioned Pakistan when they appeared publicly together ...
Thousands of protesters marked Thursday's anniversary of the 1972 declaration of martial law by late Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos with an outcry against what they say are the current president's authoritarian tendencies and his bloody crackdown on illegal drugs. Hundreds of riot police were deployed ...
Indian Home Affairs Minister Rajnath Singh reiterated Thursday that tens of thousands of Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar residing in India are "not refugees but illegal immigrants." "The people who have entered into India from Myanmar are not Rohingya refugees. We have to understand this reality," ...
Russia, the only major power that has not called on Iraq's Kurds to cancel a referendum on independence next week, has swiftly become the top funder of Kurdish oil and gas deals, with as much as $4 billion pledged in less than a year, ...
When he saw his commander holding the severed head of one of his neighbors, teenage Islamist fighter Jalil knew it was time to escape from Marawi. Churches and homes had been ransacked, people had been shot or taken hostage, and now Philippine government troops, planes ...
The battle for the Islamic State group's de-facto Syria capital, Raqqa, has reached its "final stages," the Syrian Democratic Forces said Wednesday, almost four months after the U.S.-backed force launched an assault on the self-proclaimed capital of the militant group. The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces ...
