(VOVWORLD) - Five Sahel nations have been holding a major military drill in western Niger, Niger's defense ministry said on Sunday, the first such exercise in a region wracked by...
(VOVWORLD) - The Sahel region in sub-Saharan Africa is now the epicentre of terrorism, which is far higher than in the Middle East, according to the Institute for Economics and Peace ...
(VOVWORLD) - Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) announced the death of their leader Khalid bin Umar Batarfi in a statement on Sunday
(VOVWORLD) - The United Nations Security Council unanimously voted on Friday to remove the final restrictions on weapons deliveries to Somalia’s government and its security forces, more than 30 years...
(VOVWORLD) - President Vo Van Thuong and his wife visited a number of overseas Vietnamese in the US on Wednesday while he is in the US for the APEC Leaders' Week...
(VOVWORLD) - The EU Council on Monday adopted a decision extending for one year, until 31 October 2024, the EU’s restrictive measures against IS and Al-Qaeda and associated natural and legal persons...
(VOVWORLD) - At least 29 Niger soldiers were killed in an attack by armed insurgents near the country's border with Mali, the West African nation's defence ministry said in...
(VOVWORLD) - The Pentagon is repositioning some troops and equipment within Niger and will withdraw a small number of non-essential personnel "out of an abundance of caution," US officials told Reuters...
(VOVWORLD) - Sweden’s government is considering changing the Public Order Act to make it possible for police to deny permission for acts such as burning the Koran but only if they...
(VOVWORLD) - Five United Nations security staff who were kidnapped in Yemen by al Qaeda militants 18 months ago have been released, the United Nations said on Friday
(VOVWORLD) - Niger’s junta revoked a raft of military cooperation agreements with France on Thursday - a decision that could drastically reshape a fight against Islamist insurgents in the region after...
(VOVWORLD) - France will evacuate French and European citizens from Niger starting on Tuesday, its foreign ministry said, days after a junta seized power in Niger
(VOVWORLD) -September 11 this year marks the 21st anniversary of bloody terrorist attacks against targets in the US, which killed nearly 3,000 people. Since this world-changing incident, the US and the...
(VOVWORLD) - The first US Ambassador to Sudan in 25 years took up his post Wednesday in the latest easing of ties since Washington removed Khartoum from its state sponsors of...
(VOVWORLD) - The United States killed al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri in a drone strike, President Joe Biden said Monday in a speech from the White House
(VOVWORLD) - The US will resume talks with the Taliban next week in Qatar, addressing among other issues the fight against terrorism and the humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan
(VOVWORLD) - One of the top al-Qaeda leaders has been killed in a US drone strike in Syria, the Pentagon said Friday
(VOVWORLD) - Afghanistan's Taliban rulers said on Tuesday there was no evidence of Islamic State or al Qaeda militants being in the country, days after Islamic State claimed responsibility for...
(VOVWORLD) - On a video released Friday, US President Joe Biden called for national unity as the United States prepared to mark the 20th anniversary of the September 11, 2001, calling...
(VOVWORLD) - It has been 20 years since the Al-Qaeda terrorist network attacked the US, but the pain of loss is forever etched in the memory of the American people and...