Islamist militants
Gaza pummelled by fresh Israeli strikes, more than 200 dead in a week
Overnight Sunday to Monday, Israel launched dozens of strikes in the space of a few minutes across the crowded coastal Palestinian enclave controlled by...
Burkina Faso imposed the state of emergency on 31 December after militants killed 10 gendarmes in a single attack.
Their deaths bring the total of suspected Islamist militants killed since the beginning of the operation to at least 509, according to Reuters calculations based on military statements.
Assailants driving a vehicle rigged with bombs attacked the compound in the town of Sevare as some exchanged gunfire with Malian troops and fought to get in, officials said.
The blast had occurred at 8.50am at their police office, East Java police spokesman Frans Barung Mangera told a briefing.
Burkina Faso, like other countries in West Africa, has been targeted sporadically by jihadist groups operating across Africa's Sahel.
No students were taken hostage at the school in Pigcawayan town in North Cotabato province on Mindanao island.
Witnesses in Marawi said they had seen militants flying the Islamic State flag and wearing black outfits and headbands typical of the group.
Deteriorating security threatens to return Mali to the chaos that nearly tore it to pieces in 2012 when Islamists hijacked an ethnic Tuareg rebellion in the north.
Since February 2015, militants have killed more than 30 people, including members of religious minorities.
The attack is a fresh sign of instability in the desert region that is home to Islamist groups.
France is on high alert since militant Islamist gunmen and suicide bombers killed 130 in Paris attacks.
Somalia's Islamist militant group has released a recruitment film about racial injustice in the United States.
The Islamist group said Israel was trying to sabotage its relationship with other Arab powers.
No one claimed responsibility for the attack, which bore the hallmarks of Boko Haram.
Gunmen have taken over several government buildings in the Libyan city of Sirte.
The two leaders said extremists would not muzzle freedom of speech.
US special forces raided the village of Dafaar in Shabwa province.
Uhuru Kenyatta says the country is at war with the militants who massacred 36 people in a fresh attack.