A Nairobi court on April 7 ordered five Kenyans and a Tanzanian to be detained for 30 days while police investigate possible connections to last week’s university massacre. The court agreed to state lawyers’ request for the extended detention period, which usually would last 24 hours before the detainee has …

The UN Security Council has demanded humanitarian access to Syria’s Yarmuk Palestinian refugee camp as residents described fleeing in terror after the arrival of jihadists of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). The advance by the extremists into the battered neighbourhood of south Damascus has alarmed the …

French special forces on Monday rescued a Dutch national kidnapped nearly four years ago in northern Mali by AQIM extremists in an operation that killed a number of suspected militants, officials said. France’s defence ministry said Dutch hostage Sjaak Rijke, kidnapped in Timbuktu in November 2011, was freed during “military …

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi begins an eight-day visit to France, Germany and Canada on Thursday in a bid to further his agenda to boost Indian manufacturing, ensure his country’s energy security and increase foreign investment. The focus of the prime minister’s three days in France will be a fighter …

Nigerian soldiers have sacked Islamist fighters belonging to Boko Haram from Alagarno, a town in Damboa local government area. Alagarno was one of the insurgent group’s strongholds. A senior military source said the routed insurgents were fleeing, adding that he believed their leader, Abubakar Shekau, was among those now on …

Houthi forces pulled back from a central Aden district on Friday and aircraft from the Saudi-led coalition dropped weapons and medical aid to fighters defending the southern Yemeni city, a last symbolic foothold of the country’s absent president. The Shi’ite Houthi fighters and their allies withdrew from Crater neighbourhood as …

The number killed in Kenya’s university massacre rose to 148 people, Kenya’s interior minister said Friday as he declared operations to recover bodies over. The final toll from yesterday’s carnage in the college in the northeastern town of Garissa included 142 students, three police officers and three soldiers, Interior Minister …

Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk, who is currently on a working visit to Berlin, plans to discuss the implementation of the Minsk agreements among other issues during his planned talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Speaking to German journalists, Yatseniuk said also that Merkel and he would also address economic …

Twenty three new presumed accomplices have been arrested since the terrorist attack against the Bardo Museum, bringing the number of suspects arrested in this attack to 64 individuals. These arrests followed the dismantling of two terrorist cells whose most of its members had taken part in the Bardo attack, whether …

Turkey and Pakistan have called on “all Yemeni groups” for a peaceful solution to the country’s crisis, while pledging support for Saudi Arabia’s actions, Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said on April 3. Turkey and Pakistan agreed to lend “all potential support” to Saudi Arabia in order to defend the …