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Nigerian police on heightened alert after US killing of Iranian commander
Nigeria is split roughly evenly between Christians and Muslims, the latter of which are mostly Sunni. The government last year banned the country's largest...
The mortar barrage hit three full storage tanks, in an incident sure to add to the fuel crisis.
Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi has appointed his former PM as VP, a move aimed at improving the chances of peace.
Throughout the day, warplanes from Saudi Arabia and Arab allies struck at the Shia Houthis.
President Francois Hollande said Rafale jets hit “a logistics depot of the terrorists”.
This is considered a major step in building regional support for President Barack Obama’s plan to strike.
The US endorsed Haider al-Abadi’s plans to mend Baghdad’s relations with Sunnis and Kurds.
Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has made it clear he will not go quietly.
Around 300 worshippers were robbed at a central Joburg mosque on Thursday.
Armoured vehicles were sent to try dislodge insurgents from the northern city of Tikrit.
Sunni fighters seized a border post on the Iraq-Syria frontier, smashing a line drawn by colonisation.
Sunni militants launched a dawn raid on a town close to the Syrian border.
No group has yet claimed responsibility for the seven attacks.
It was not immediately clear who was behind the attack.
Sunni Muslim worshippers were leaving the mosque following Friday prayers in the Iraqi city of Baquba.
A series of car bombs across the country have killed 64 and wounded several people.
Sunni Muslim insurgents have killed about 60 Shi'ite Muslims in a rebel-held eastern Syrian town.
More than 1,000 people were killed in attacks in Iraq during May.
The Syrian conflict continues to put more pressure on Lebanon's army, fuelling further divisions.