Libya’s internationally recognised government denied last Thursday reports that French special forces had been fighting the Islamic State group in the troubled country, after the rival administration in Tripoli confirmed them. The recognised government “didn’t allow and won’t allow any foreign forces to enter Libyan territories”, spokesperson Hatem el-Ouraybi told …

Lagos – Nigerian troops have rescued 195 Boko Haram hostages and killed a number of “terrorists” in raids on villages across the restive northeast, the army said on Thursday. Troops descended on towns suspected to be controlled by the Islamist group in the state of Borno and “rescued 195 persons …

A British military training team had arrived in Tunisia last February to provide practical and theoretical courses in border protection, spokesman for the National Defence Ministry Lieutenant-Colonel Belhassen Oueslati said on Tuesday. In a statement to TAP, he said a first session of a training programme for the Tunisian Army …