Seemingly coordinated attacks left over 140 dead across four countries in what social media users are dubbing "Bloody Friday"—one year after declaration of the ISIS "caliphate."
Burundi authorities arrested several military generals after an unsuccessful coup attempt and said the suspects will face a military court for mutiny charges.
World War 4 Report offers its annual annotated assessment of Obama's moves in dismantling, continuing or escalating the apparatus of the Global War on Terrorism.
War across large swaths of the Middle East and Africa in the first six months of 2014 forcibly displaced some 5.5 million people, signalling yet another record, the UN reports.
Kenya's parliament passed a sweeping new anti-terrorism law after some of its members engaged in a shoving match that led to blows being exchanged.
Internet and media slueths scramble to identify the faction behind the jihadist flag raised by the militant in the Sydney hostage crisis—which follows Austrailian air-strikes on ISIS.
A series of massacres in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo is widely blamed on an Islamist insurgent group, the Alliance of Democratic Forces-NALU.
At least seven women were killed in "barbaric" attacks in Somalia after Shabab insurgents beheaded a soldier's wife, prompting revenge executions of the wives of jihadists.
The UN Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution renewing its international call for all able states to provide military forces to fight piracy off the coast of Somalia.
A drone strike targeted Shabab leader Ahmed Abdi Godane as US-backed Ethiopian forces launched a new drive to beat back the insurgent group in Somalia.
Kenya's US-funded Anti-Terrorism Police Unit has carried out a series of extrajudicial killings and enforced disappearances, Human Rights Watch charges in a new report.
Militant group al-Shabab has lived up to its promise to step up attacks in Somalia, mainly against government installations and personnel, during the holy month of Ramadan.
