Coordinated attacks hit Burkina Faso capital (Update 2)
Attackers in Burkina Faso’s capital killed seven people and wounded some fifty others in a coordinated assault on the army headquarters and French embassy that a French...
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Gunmen kill 13 in market in India’s north-east Assam state
Attackers wearing military uniforms shot dead at least 13 people and wounded 15 on Friday in a busy market area in a town in India’s...
Islamist militants in Bangladesh kill 20 foreigners before commandos end siege (update 3)
By Serajul Quadir Islamist militants shouting “Allahu Akbar” attacked an upscale cafe in the Bangladeshi capital, killing 20 foreigners inside, before police stormed the building...
Gunmen open fire on tourist bus at Cairo hotel, no casualties (Update 2)
Gunmen opened fire on Israeli tourists as they boarded a bus in Cairo on Thursday but there were no casualties, security sources said. Egypt declared...
Islamist al Shabaab attack Somali hotel, kill at least 10 (Updated)
By Abdi Sheikh and Feisal Omar Security forces in the Somali capital fought for several hours on Sunday before clearing a hotel of Islamist al...
Gunmen kill 3, wound 1 near Baltimore university
Three people were killed and one was wounded when gunmen opened fire on a group of people on a street near the University of Maryland,...
Two Egyptian tourism police killed in rare attack near pyramids
Gunmen on a motorcycle shot dead two members of Egypt’s tourism and antiquities police force on a road near the Giza pyramids on Wednesday, security...
Islamic State fighter praises attack on Paris satirical magazine
A fighter of the Islamic State militant group praised Wednesday’s attack on a French satirical magazine that killed at least 12 people, telling Reuters the...
Motorcycle gunmen kill five Egyptian police, Govt says
Masked gunmen riding motorcycles killed five Egyptian policemen in an attack on a checkpoint south of Cairo on Thursday, the Interior Ministry said. The attack...
Gunmen kill two Belarus military instructors in Yemen
By Mohammed Ghobari Gunmen on a motorcycle killed two Belarussian military instructors in Sanaa on Tuesday, police and defence ministry sources said, in a shooting...
Two Kenya mall bodies ‘highly likely’ to be attackers – lawmaker
By Richard Lough Two charred corpses recovered from Kenya’s Westgate shopping mall are “highly likely” to be two of the gunmen who killed at least...
Some aid workers freed in Syria, risks to humanitarian effort grow
By Oliver Holmes and Stephanie Nebehay Four of seven aid workers abducted in Syria have been freed, the Red Cross said on Monday, but there...
Gunmen storm Nairobi mall, at least 20 killed
By Edmund Blair and Goran Tomasevic Gunmen stormed a shopping mall in Nairobi on Saturday killing at least 20 people in what Kenya’s government said...
Gunmen abduct two Turkish Airlines staff in Beirut (updated)
By Dominic Evans Gunmen abducted two Turkish Airlines pilots in Beirut on Friday, forcing them from an airport bus in the early hours of the...