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Six civilians killed in Somalia hotel siege
AFP, Published on 10/06/2023
» MOGADISHU, Somalia: Six civilians were killed and 10 wounded in a six-hour siege by Islamist Al-Shabaab militants at a beachside hotel in Somalia's capital Mogadishu, police said Saturday.
Army convoy brings food to blockaded Burkina city
AFP, Published on 23/03/2023
» OUAGADOUGOU - An army convoy has delivered desperately-needed supplies to a northern Burkina Faso city that has been blockaded by jihadists for months, locals and security sources told AFP Wednesday.
Somali forces battle militants for hotel in Mogadishu
AFP, Published on 28/11/2022
» MOGADISHU: Somalia's security forces exchanged gunfire with militants holed up in a hotel in Mogadishu on Monday after Al-Shabaab stormed the popular venue near the presidential palace and occupied it overnight.
Al-Shabaab attacks hotel in Somali capital: police
AFP, Published on 28/11/2022
» MOGADISHU - Al-Shabaab militants attacked a hotel near the presidential palace in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Sunday, police and witnesses said, with explosions and gunfire heard in the city centre.
Blast kills at least 9 on bus in Mali: police, local source
AFP, Published on 14/10/2022
» BAMAKO - An explosion killed at least nine people on a bus in central Mali on Thursday, a region regularly rocked by jihadist violence, according to police and local sources.
DR Congo's dreaded ADF militia targets infidel 'crusaders'
AFP, Published on 07/07/2021
» BENI, DR Congo: Mado was worshipping at an evangelical church in the town of Ndalya in February when her life changed forever.
True heroes: How motorcycle team came to aid of military veterans
AFP, Published on 24/06/2019
» SWANLEY (UNITED KINGDOM) - John Footitt, a veteran of the 1982 Falklands War diagnosed with post traumatic stress disorder, admits "sudden noises out of the blue" still terrify him.
New Zealand mosque attack suspect charged with murder
AFP, Published on 16/03/2019
» CHRISTCHURCH:A right-wing extremist who filmed himself on a rampage that left 49 mosque-goers dead flashed a white power sign as he appeared in a New Zealand court Saturday charged with murder.
'Multiple fatalities' as New Zealand mosques targeted
AFP, Published on 15/03/2019
» CHRISTCHURCH (NEW ZEALAND) - An attack on two crowded mosques during Friday prayers left multiple people dead, police said, on what Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern described as "one of New Zealand's darkest days".
Hundreds flee US-backed Syria battle for last IS holdout
AFP, Published on 12/02/2019
» OMAR OIL FIELD (SYRIA) - US-backed forces pressed the battle to expel diehard jihadists from the last pocket of land under their control in eastern Syria on Tuesday after hundreds fled the holdout overnight.