The Tunisian government has definitively banned hardline Salafist group Ansar al-Sharia from holding its annual congress at the weekend, the interior ministry announced on Friday.
"We have decided to prohibit this gathering, which would be in violation of the law and because of the threat it...
Admitting Islamic extremists now control some of his nation's villages and towns, Nigeria's president declared a state of emergency Tuesday across the country's troubled northeast, promising to send more troops to fight what he said is now an open rebellion.
President Goodluck Jonathan...
Dozens of people have been killed in fierce fighting between Nigeria's military and suspected Islamists after troops raided an insurgent hideout in the northeast, a government source told AFP on Monday.
Gun battles broke out in the remote fishing village of Baga on Friday, forcing residents...