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Bomb rock churches in northern Nigeria

Bombs rocked three churches in neighbouring cities in Nigeria`s northern Kaduna state on Sunday, injuring dozens of ...

Church attacks kill at least 3 in Nigeria

A suicide bomber drove his car at a church in central Nigeria while gunmen opened fire on another church in the ...

Suicide blast at church in northern Nigeria kills 15

A suicide bomber who tried to drive an explosives-packed car into a church in northern Nigeria on Sunday killed at ...

Two Belgian "terrorism" suspects detained in Yemen

Two Belgian nationals could be deported from Yemen after being detained last month on suspicion of involvement in ...

Easter bomb attack near Nigeria church kills at least 20

A car bombing near a church in northern Nigeria on Easter Sunday killed at least 20 people and put the country on ...

Tuareg rebels seize Timbuktu, say Malian `occupation` over

The Tuareg rebel movement Sunday said it had wrested control of the legendary desert town of Timbuktu, the last ...

5 Qaeda suspects, three others killed in Yemen

Eight people, including five suspected Al-Qaeda members, were killed in an air strike and a shooting in Yemen on ...

Tuareg rebels attack key town in northern Mali

Tuareg rebels fighting alongside an armed Islamist group on Thursday attacked the key town of Kidal in northern Mali, ...

Syria-based PFLP leader on first Gaza trip

A senior leader of the Syria-based leadership of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine arrived on Sunday ...

Blasts rock northern Nigeria, police station attacked

Gunmen attacked a police station in Nigeria`s flashpoint city of Kano on Monday and multiple blasts rocked a market in ...

Fresh attacks on Nigerian police stations kill two

Gunmen have attacked two more police stations in Nigeria`s second city of Kano, killing at least two people amid a ...

Fresh explosion in Nigeria`s violence-hit Kano: army

A fresh explosion rocked a bus terminal in Nigeria`s violence-hit city of Kano on Thursday forcing the area to be ...

Nigeria president sacks police chief over violence

Nigeria`s president, accused of failing to contain intensifying Islamist violence, fired the country`s police chief on ...

Nigerian president says arrests made over attacks

Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan said Sunday that arrests have been made over attacks in the city of Kano that ...

Coup plot foiled in Bangladesh, says army

The Bangladesh army said Thursday it had foiled a plot last month by some "religiously fanatic" serving officers to ...