A well-armed jihadist group affiliated with al Qaeda is closing in on Bamako, the capital of Mali. The country’s military junta and their Russian partners are struggling to counter the jihadis, who ...

General Jean Elysee Dao says 60 others also wounded as army retakes key town after nearly a week of fighting.

Al Qaeda’s leader in Afghanistan, Saif al-Adl, issued a call to foreign fighters around the world to migrate to Afghanistan and join the ranks of the jihadi terror ...

Are ‘low-cost, high-impact’ drones making Sahel fighters tougher to beat? Experts say ISIL and al-Qaeda-linked groups use ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Malian soldiers stand near a truck during a patrol following the attack on Mali's main military base Kati, outside the capital ...

(Reuters) - An al Qaeda-linked group said it killed nearly 300 people in Saturday's devastating attack in north-central Burkina Faso, but said it targeted militia members linked to the army, not ...

Yemeni troops backed by Arab coalition air strikes killed more than 800 members of Al-Qaeda in an attack on a southeastern provincial capital held by the group for the past year, the coalition said ...