Baghdad will prosecute and try militants from the Islamic State group who are being transferred from prisons and detention camps in neighboring Syria to Iraq under a U.S.-brokered deal, Iraq said Sunday. The announcement from Iraq’s highest judicial body came after a meeting of top security and political officials who discussed the ongoing transfer of […]
Tragedy struck Etim Ekpo yesterday as militants attacked passenger bus along Ikot Mkporikpo axis killing one person while others sustained various degrees of injury. The attack occurred two weeks after a soldier was killed and several houses burnt at Iwukem junction in the same community. In a telephone interview, the police public relation officer of […]
A soldier and 7 persons were killed while houses and property estimated at N52 million were destroyed weekend in Iwukem community following a midnight attack on residents by militants in Etim Ekpo Council Area. Eye witness account said the attack which took residents unawares started at 12 midnight when the hoodlums numbering 30 invaded the […]
The United States (U.S) has once again demonstrated its commitment to routing terror insurgents as its U.S. military has launched new airstrikes against Islamic State militants in Libya. The VOA, reports noted that Africa Command spokesperson Robyn Mack said the strikes occurred on November 17 and 19 near Fuqaha “in coordination with the Libyan Government […]
Military personnel are currently exchanging gunfire with armed militants around Ajakurama community area in Warri North LGA, Delta state. Explosions have also been heard. More to follow
The city of Raqqa has been liberated from Islamic State militants, a spokesman for a US-backed Syrian force has said. Soldiers raised a flag inside Raqqa stadium as a four-month battle to take Islamic State’s Syrian capital came to an end. A war monitor, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said the jihadi militant group […]
Militants ambushed a group of about 30 civilians in northeastern Congo and killed many of them before fighting a fierce battle with the army, politicians said on Sunday. According to agency report, the attack took place near the city of Beni and, if the deaths are confirmed, would be the first mass-killing this year in […]
One person has been confirmed dead when militants attacked the offices of Greenville Oil Company in Emohua Local Government Area in Rivers state. Scores of youths and resident have taken to the streets to protest the killing. More to follow
Governor Nyesom Ezenwo Wike of Rivers State has announced that his administration would create jobs for repentant cultists and militants who accepted the state government’s amnesty programme. The governor stated this while flagging off the construction of the Rumuji-Ibaa-Obele-Isiokpo road and the bridge running from Emohua to Ikwerre Local Government Area on Saturday, saying that […]
Ex-Niger Delta militants, who belong to the Niger Delta Ethnic Nationalities Youth Leaders Movement (NDENYLM), on Tuesday, appealed to the national leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC), to consider the sons of the region in the APC in ceding the speakership of the House of Representatives to the South-South. They specifically said the commitment […]
Al-Shabaab Islamist militants shot dead a government official in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Wednesday, police and a spokesperson for the group said. Abdifatah Barre, the deputy district commissioner of Mogadishu’s Wadajir district, was shot dead in his car. “Gunmen opened fire on the car of the deputy district commissioner this morning. The […]
Six suspected ISIS militants, including two Air Force personnel, were charged on Thursday in Malaysia, police said. They face up to 30 years imprisonment if convicted of promoting acts of terrorism. The suspects, who appeared before the Sessions Court of Alor Setar in the northern state of Kedah, were among 17 arrested this month in […]
At least 22 people were killed in explosions across Iraq late Sunday, including a suicide car bomb attack on a military post in western Anbar province, police and medical sources said. The deadliest attack came when a car packed with explosives was detonated at an army checkpoint near the town of al-Nukhaib, an outpost on […]
Militant group al-Shabab has claimed responsibility for a bomb attack Monday on a United Nations bus in northern Somalia that killed at least seven people and wounded several others. Garowe, SomaliaGarowe, Somalia The U.N. Children’s Fund said four of its staff members were killed and another four were in serious condition after the blast […]
Tunisian authorities have arrested more than 20 suspected militants following the Bardo museum attack when gunmen killed foreign tourists, leading to a nationwide security crackdown, the government said on Saturday. Hundreds of Tunisians gathered for a mass in the cathedral in Tunis on Saturday, lighting candles to remember the victims – 20 foreign tourists and […]