Inside job, 2 Canadian militants in Algeria siege
The hostage-taking at a remote Algerian gas plant was carried out by 30 militants from across the northern swath of Africa and two from Canada, ...
Ble Goude charged with war crimes in Ivory Coast
Authorities in Ivory Coast have charged former youth leader Charles Ble Goude with war crimes over his alleged role in violence linked to the ...
French seize control of 2 key Mali towns
French troops in armored personnel carriers rolled through the streets of Diabaly on Monday, winning praise from residents of this besieged town after ...
Egypt's Morsi opposes French intervention in Mali
Egypt's Islamist president on Monday stated his opposition to France's military intervention in Mali, saying its actions there would create a "new ...
Algeria attack poses fresh security issues
The deadly attack on an Algerian natural gas complex will do little to discourage the drive for lucrative energy exploration in northern Africa, ...
Officials: Pirates seize oil tanker in Ivory Coast
Armed men have hijacked a tanker carrying 5,000 tons of jet fuel from an Ivory Coast port and taken it off the coast of Ghana, though its precise ...
Timeline of French-led Mali military intervention
A timeline of the French-led military intervention in Mali, which is now in its second week: Jan. 10 — Islamists push south and seize the central ...
Rwanda president: No issue with UN drones in Congo
Rwandan President Paul Kagame said Monday he has no problem with a United Nations proposal to use surveillance drones in neighboring Congo.
S. Africa: Nigerian suspect in 2010 bombing guilty
A South African court on Monday said a Nigerian terror suspect was guilty of masterminding twin car bombings during a celebration in Nigeria.
Death toll climbs past 80 in siege in the Sahara
The death toll from the terrorist siege at a natural gas plant in the Sahara climbed past 80 on Sunday as Algerian forces searching the refinery for ...
French airstrikes jolt Islamists in Malian town
Backed by French air strikes, Malian forces appeared close to recapturing a key central town in Mali where bands of al-Qaida-linked fighters had holed ...
AP PHOTOS: Fighting in Mali continues
Burned out vehicles and scattered bullets dot the streets of a central Malian town after radical Islamists retreated following days of French ...
Al-Qaida flourishes in Sahara, emerges stronger
The Islamists are back as a force in Algeria. The terrorist attack on an Algerian natural gas plant that left dozens of hostages and militants dead ...
Algeria terror leader preferred money to death
Moktar Belmoktar is known abroad as the man who orchestrated the abduction of scores of foreigners last week at a BP-operated plant in the remote, ...
Algeria: 32 militants killed, with 23 hostages
In a bloody finale, Algerian special forces stormed a natural gas complex in the Sahara desert on Saturday to end a standoff with Islamist extremists ...
Jailed Liberian ex-president wants his pension
Charles Taylor may be locked up while appealing his 50-year prison sentence for war crimes, but the former Liberian president still wants his ...
Attack in Nigeria's northwest kills at least 3
A witness and official say that gunmen attacked the convoy of a religious leader in Nigeria's northwest, killing at least three people. The witness ...
France says Africans need to take lead in Mali
France's foreign minister said Saturday that "our African friends need to take the lead" in a military intervention to oust extremists from power in ...
State Dept. issues Mali travel warning
The State Department is telling dependents of its employees working in the U.S. Embassy in Bamako, Mali, to leave. In a travel warning issued Friday, ...
State Dept.: 1 American dead in Algerian standoff
One American worker at a natural gas complex in Algeria has been found dead, U.S. officials said Friday as the Obama administration sought to secure ...
Algerian army takes hard line in militant battle
The militants had filled five jeeps with hostages and begun to move when Algerian government attack helicopters opened up on them, leaving four in ...
Africa forces' role in Mali faces diverse snags
West African nations that promised to send troops to fight al-Qaida in Mali are finding it's a lot trickier than they'd hoped to actually get boots ...
French encircle key Malian town of Diabaly
French troops encircled a key Malian town on Friday to stop radical Islamists from striking closer to the capital, a French official said. The move ...
60 hostages dead, missing in Algeria standoff
About 60 foreign hostages are still unaccounted for three days into a bloody siege with Islamic militants at a gas plant deep in the Sahara, Algeria's ...
First batch of Nigerian troops off to Mali
A top Nigerian military officer says that Mali's Islamist extremist rebels trained Nigeria's Boko Haram terrorists. Lt. Gen. Onyeabo Azubike ...
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