In a statement issued late Friday, the defence ministry blamed the attack on the EIGS group, an Islamic State affiliate.

Islamist militants killed at least 44 civilians and severely injured 13 others during an attack on a mosque in southwest Niger on Friday, the country's defence ministry said.

U.S. Rep. Blake Moore (R-UT) has introduced bipartisan legislation to extend tax benefits to American service members ...

Israeli strikes overnight killed dozens of Palestinians across the Gaza Strip, medics in the territory said Thursday. The ...

The Italian Coast Guard has recovered six bodies and was searching for up to 40 migrants missing after a rubber dinghy that departed from Tunisia sank in the central Mediterranean, the U.N. refugee ...

Mali has withdrawn from a global alliance of French-speaking countries, days after two of its neighbors took the same step.

The West African nation, along with neighbors Burkina Faso and Niger, has for more than a decade battled an insurgency fought by armed groups, including some allied with al-Qaida and the Islamic State ...

A separatist group in Mali said an airstrike on a market in the country’s north has killed at least 18 people. Mali’s army ...

An airstrike in northern Mali killed at least 18 people, a separatist group said, while the army says it targeted armed militants ...