Top leaders of Djibouti, Ethiopia and Kenya on Wednesday agreed to begin “search and destroy” operations to push al Shabaab militants out of neighbouring Somalia. The move follows an intensified offensive by Somalia’s federal government against the al Qaeda-affiliated group over the past few months. It has taken back control …

Militants are led by former members of a group linked to Al Qaeda Eleven Syrian soldiers were killed in the country’s north-western Idlib province in attacks carried out by the Hayat Tahrir Al Sham extremist group, a war monitor has reported. The group fired “shells and rockets at a Syrian …

Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry delivered a message from the United States to his Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov, on Russia’s war in Ukraine, according to an Egyptian media report. Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry met his Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov, in Moscow on Tuesday, hours after holding lengthy talks with …