Amaka Agbu, Port Harcourt The Pan Niger Delta Elders Forum (PANDEF) has appealed to the militants in the region to exercise restraint and patience as the forum was currently working with the federal government to develop the area. PANDEF said the appeal became necessary because it was worried about the threats by different militant groups […]
Egyptian security forces have killed the head of a jihadist group responsible for deadly attacks on police, an interior ministry statement said on Sunday. It said Hammam Mohamed Attiyah was killed in an exchange of fire with security forces during a raid on an apartment in southern Cairo No date for the incident was given, […]
Kenyan forces carried out airstrikes against al-Shabab targets in neighboring Somalia, days after the militants killed 148 people in an attack at a university in southern Kenya. Warplanes hit two camps in the Gedo region of southern Somalia on Sunday. There was no immediate report on possible casualties or damage from the strikes. Al-Shabab […]
Authorities in Pakistan say military jets pounded suspected terrorist hideouts near the Afghan border Wednesday, killing at least 30 militants. An army statement says that “two arms and ammunition dumps” were also destroyed in the air strikes in a remote part of the insurgency-hit Khyber tribal district. Meanwhile, suspected U.S. drone strikes early Wednesday in […]
Governor Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa State has vowed to deal with any person or group of persons who parades him/themselves as ex-militants or whatever name trying to form any parallel government under his leadership in the state. Governor Dickson read the riot act on Friday in the state capital Yenogoa during an interactive session with […]
A gunman who carried out an attack that killed 17 tourists at Tunis’s Bardo museum was known to the authorities, Tunisia’s prime minister has said. Habib Essi told RTL Radio that security services had flagged up one of the attackers, Yassine Laabidi, but were not aware of “anything specific”, or of any links to known […]