February 6, Lieutenant General Vladimir Alekseyev, a high-ranking Russian military intelligence officer, was attacked in a residential building in the ...

Blind duo from Mali, Amadou Bagayoko, right, and Mariam Doumbia, seen, during a concert in Paris, Monday, Dec. 1, 2008 ...

Post reporters ventured to northwest Nigeria, where fighters affiliated with the Islamic State are on the offensive despite ...

Nick Checker, head of the US State Department’s Bureau of African Affairs, visited Mali on Monday, calling for renewed ...

Operation Barkhane was the largest French antiterrorist mission in Sub-Saharan Africa and a key element of European security ...

The US has declared a stark policy shift towards three West African countries which are battling Islamist insurgents and ...

Following US military strikes on Christmas Day, Under Secretary of State Allison Hooker visited Abuja on 22 January for the first meeting of the US-Nigeria Working Group established in response to ...

ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast — A Malian lawmaker has been sentenced to three years in prison in neighboring Ivory Coast after being convicted of insulting the country’s 84-year-old president, who recently ...

President Vladimir Putin praised the export record of Russia's military industries on Friday, saying it had expanded its ...

Four Nigerien military personnel were injured and 20 attackers were killed during an attack on the Diori Hamani International ...

The Islamic State extremist group on Friday claimed responsibility for an attack in Niger on an air force base in the capital ...

Niger's military leader has accused the presidents of France, Benin and Ivory Coast of supporting armed groups that attacked ...