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SAN FRANCISCO, June 02, (THEWILL) – Somali authorities on Thursday said the security forces have brought to an end a bomb and gun attack by militants on a central Mogadishu hotel that killed at least 16 people and wounded...

In June 2014, 23-year-old engineering student Mohammed Badawy was expelled from Cairo University. The university said it ejected him for obstructing the education process, and for rioting and destruction at a protest against President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi's government. Badawy said...

Islamic State militants fought back vigorously overnight and parried an onslaught by the Iraqi army on a southern district of the city of Falluja, the group's bastion near Baghdad, officers said on Tuesday. An aid official warned of a "human...

In some places, the line dividing this town in northern Iraq takes the form of blast walls and barricades that bring its run-down streets to an abrupt end. Elsewhere it is visible only to the people of Tuz Khurmato, who...

Up to 700 migrants are feared drowned in a series of shipwrecks off the coast of Libya in the last few days, the UN refugee agency says. The boats sank south of Italy on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday as the...

Former Chad president Hissene Habre was found guilty on Monday of crimes against humanity for ordering the killing and torture of thousands of political opponents during his eight-year, cold war-era rule. Habre was sentenced to life in prison by the...

A military court in Somalia has sentenced two men to life in prison for masterminding a bomb attack on a Daallo Airlines passenger plane in February. Eight other people, including a woman, were sentenced to between six months and four...

North Korea threatened retaliation on Friday after South Korea fired what it said were warning shots when a patrol boat and fishing boat from the North crossed the disputed sea border off the west coast of the Korean peninsula. The...

At least three people have died in western Kenya during opposition protests calling for electoral reforms, police say. Their statement said police in Siaya shot dead two people in self-defence. A third man in Kisumu died from a head injury after...

Egypt's forensics chief has denied reports that an initial examination of the remains of victims of the EgyptAir crash points towards an explosion. "Everything published about this matter is completely false," Forensic Medicine Authority head Hisham Abdul Hamid said. Earlier, a...