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Nigeria: Islamic State claims Gubio military base attack, releases ISWAP propaganda video

ISIS claimed ISWAP militants stormed a Nigerian military base in Gubio, Borno state, and released a video of attacks and…

Fergus Kelly

India test-fires BrahMos high-speed cruise missile from Su-30 fighter jet

India said its BrahMos cruise missile passed another key test when it hit a land target after being fired from…

Staff Writer With AFP

Ghazni vehicle blast kills 3, Afghanistan interior ministry says

At least three people were killed and more than a dozen others reported injured after an explosion in the central…

Joanne Stocker

Somalia: Al-Shabaab claims car bomb that exploded near Mogadishu checkpoint

A car bomb exploded near a checkpoint in Somalia capital Mogadishu, in an attack claimed by the militant group Al…

Staff Writer With AFP

Trump nominates former Aerospace Corporation chair to head US Air Force

US President Donald Trump announced he had nominated Barbara Barrett, a former Aerospace Corporation chair, to lead the Air Force

Staff Writer With AFP

DNA tests confirm Sri Lanka Easter attacks ringleader was Shangri-La bomber

Sri Lanka police said DNA tests confirmed that the ringleader of the Easter attacks, Zahran Hashim, was one of the…

Staff Writer With AFP

Netherlands arrests suspected Syrian Al Nusra Front commander

Dutch police arrested a Syrian man called Abu Khuder, suspected of committing war crimes as a commander of Al Nusra…

Staff Writer With AFP

UK F-35 fighter jets head to Cyprus for first overseas exercise

UK F-35B Lightning aircraft flew RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus as part of Exercise Lightning Dawn, the first overseas deployment for…

Staff Writer With AFP

Mali police killed in attack in Koury near Burkina Faso border

Four civilians, two Malian policemen and a customs officer were killed in an attack on a border post on Mali's…

Staff Writer With AFP

Egypt police carry out raids near Cairo after Giza bus bomb

Twelve suspected jihadists were killed in police raids near Cairo, Egypt's interior ministry said, a day after a bomb blast…

Staff Writer With AFP