Tag: unrest

Two dozen Nigerian girls who were kidnapped from their boarding school last week in the country's northwest have been released, ...

Suspected jihadists killed at least 10 soldiers in western Niger earlier this week, a local source told AFP on Friday. ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed he would deal with the violent "handful of extremists" among Israeli settlers in the ...

More than 100 people were injured and 20 arrested during a massive protest on Saturday in Mexico City against the ...

Residents in the Pakistani capital Islamabad were facing tightened security checks on Wednesday in the wake of a suicide bombing ...

Gunmen fired on a vehicle in Pakistan's northwestern border region, killing a pro-government militia leader and five others before torching ...

Pakistan "conducted precision aerial strikes" in Afghan border areas on Friday, a senior security official told AFP after a two-day ...

Iran on Thursday welcomed the ceasefire between its eastern neighbours Pakistan and Afghanistan, urging dialogue and diplomacy after days of ...

Clashes along the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan killed 40 civilians before a truce halted the violence, a health official ...

The African Union told AFP Wednesday it was suspending Madagascar "with immediate effect" after a coup saw an elite army ...