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Turkey Will Open Its Military Base in Somalia

Turkey Will Open Its Military Base in Somalia

According to the Yeni Safak newspaper, the Turkish Army will train Somalia troops and troops from other African countries at the base, which has been under construction near Somalia’s airport in Mogadishu since March 2015. Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and General Staff’s Chief Gen. Hulusi Akar are expected to take part in the official […]

China Appeals For U.S. Help To Fight “Islamic Militants” In Xinjiang

China Appeals For U.S. Help To Fight “Islamic Militants” In Xinjiang

China has appealed for U.S. support in fighting Islamist militants in the far western Chinese region of Xinjiang, saying they are also a threat to the United States. Chinese officials say the East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM) recruits Uighurs, a largely Muslim ethnic minority from Xinjiang, and trains them with extremists in Syria and Iraq, […]

Boko Haram Militants Kill 150 People in Borno

Boko Haram Militants Kill 150 People in Borno

Nearly 150 people are reported to have been killed by suspected Boko Haram Islamist militants in attacks in Nigeria’s north-eastern Borno state. Eyewitnesses say the gunmen stormed the village of Kukawa near Lake Chad on Wednesday evening, killing 97 people, including women and children. On Tuesday, the militants shot dead 48 men after they had […]

Thousands Of Europeans Flee From Tunisia After Attack

Thousands Of Europeans Flee From Tunisia After Attack

SOUSSE, Tunisia-Tour companies were evacuating thousands of foreign holidaymakers from Tunisia on Saturday, a day after a gunman killed 39 people at a beach hotel in an attack claimed by Islamic State. Tunisia’s Prime Minister Habib Essid said most of the dead were British, and Britain’s foreign office said 15 Britons had been confirmed killed […]

Algiers Defends Order at Home—But Not Abroad

Algiers Defends Order at Home—But Not Abroad

The upheavals of the Arab Spring seemed to pass one country by: Algeria. To its east, Libya collapsed into civil war, and Tunisia suffered an upsurge of terrorism that imperiled its democratic transition and economic recovery. To the south, Mali is holding together, if barely, thanks to a French-led stabilization force. But all the while, […]

Four Tunisian policemen killed in an attack by Islamist militants

Four Tunisian policemen killed in an attack by Islamist militants

Four Tunisian policemen have been killed in an attack by suspected Islamist militants near the Algerian border.About 20 men opened fire at a National Guards convoy in Kasserine province and seized weapons, an interior ministry spokesman said. He blamed Okba Ibn Nafaa, a small group of al-Qaeda affiliated fighters.Tunisia has seen a rise in hardline […]

Nigerian soldiers given death penalty for mutiny

Nigerian soldiers given death penalty for mutiny

A Nigerian court martial has sentenced 54 soldiers to death for refusing to fight Boko Haram Islamist militants. The soldiers, who were found guilty of mutiny, were accused of refusing to help recapture three towns that had been seized by Boko Haram in August. A lawyer for the soldiers said the 54 would face a […]

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