MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – The Somali military on Tuesday said that it had killed 25 al-Shabaab fighters during an operation in the country’s central Hiiraan region, according to Somali military radio. The military operation was conducted on the outskirts of the Mahas district, said Mohamed Ibrahim Hassan Bakaay, a military commander. The...
PARIS (AA) – A French court on Tuesday sentenced a former Rwandan official to 20 years in prison after finding him guilty of complicity in the 1994 genocide in the African country. The Paris Assize Court held Laurent Bucyibaruta, 78, the former prefect of Gikongoro province, guilty of acts of genocide and complicity in genocide […...
WASHINGTON (AA) – John Bolton, former President Donald Trump’s national security adviser, has admitted that he was involved in planning coups in foreign countries. Bolton made the stunning revelation during an interview with CNN anchor Jake Tapper while discussing the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol building by Trump’s suppor...
Abidjan, Ivory Coast – (AFP): Ivory Coast has called on Mali to release 49 of its soldiers “unjustly” detained at Bamako airport and accused by officials there of being mercenaries. None of the Ivorian soldiers detained were carrying weapons of war, said a statement from the Ivorian president’s office after an emergency...
Bamako, Mali – (AFP): Mali has said that the 49 Ivory Coast troops whom it detained were “mercenaries”. “It has been established that the 49 Ivorian soldiers were illegally on the national territory of Mali,” government spokesman Abdoulaye Maiga said in a statement read on state TV, calling the men “mercenar...
Washington, United States – (AFP): A research institution has downplayed the killing of Maher al-Agal in Syria, saying the ISIS in the country is “barely a shadow” of what it used to be. “It is important to remember that each time an Islamic State head is killed, they are replaced immediately,” Damien Ferre, found...
‘WASHINGTON (AA) – Iran is moving rapidly to provide Russia with hundreds of its domestically-manufactured drones to bolster the Kremlin’s war effort against Ukraine, a senior Biden administration official has disclosed. Jake Sullivan, President Joe Biden’s national security adviser, said the US has information suggesti...
LONDON (AA) – More than 50 detainees and unarmed men were killed by British troops in Afghanistan, according to newly obtained military reports and an investigation by the BBC. BBC Panorama program on Tuesday night looked into documents of operations by the Special Air Service (SAS) – a British elite unit used in special operations […]...
MOSCOW (AA) – Russian President Vladimir Putin will travel to Iran’s capital Tehran on July 19 to take part in a trilateral meeting with Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, according to a Kremlin spokesman. Putin will also hold a separate bilateral meeting with Erdogan, Dmitry Peskov told a p...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The UN Security Council has agreed to extend its mandate for badly-needed cross-border aid deliveries into Syria for six months. The 12-0 vote came after Russia vetoed a UN resolution on Friday that would have extended cross-border deliveries from Türkiye for one year. The Council’s mandate expired Sunday. The res...
