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Iraqi jets dropped leaflets over Mosul telling residents that Islamic State fighters would soon be driven from the northern city, saying details of the operation would be broadcast on a new radio station. The city has been under Islamic State...

N'DJAMENA Security forces in Chad have seized a large weapons cache including guns, rockets and ammunition in a house in the capital N'Djamena occupied by suspected members of Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram, officials said on Friday. The weapons, buried...

BEVERLY HILLS, July 02, (THEWILL) – Boko Haram insurgents have again attacked two villages in Monguno local government area of Borno State. A report monitored on BBC Hausa Service by THEWILL on Thursday said many people were killed while several...

The UN Security Council has imposed sanctions on six generals accused of fuelling conflict in South Sudan. The generals, three from each side of the conflict, will face global travel bans and asset freezes. On Monday, a UN report alleged that...

Tunisian authorities were on Thursday hunting further suspects in the Sousse hotel attack identified by officials as part of a group trained in a Libyan jihadist camp alongside gunmen who carried out a massacre at a Tunis museum. Thirty-eight foreigners,...

Mozambique has decriminalised homosexuality in its new penal code, making it one of a few African countries where same-sex relationships are legal. The revised code, in force from Wednesday, drops a colonial-era clause outlawing "vices against nature". There were no prosecutions...

BEVERLY HILLS, July 01, (THEWILL) – Liberia Tuesday confirmed a second case of the deadly Ebola disease just a day after a new case was detected forcing the World Health Organisation (WHO) to withdraw the Ebola-free certification it had...

The global nuclear watchdog said on Wednesday its boss would fly to Tehran to discuss some of the last big issues that need to be resolved so that Iran and world powers can reach a breakthrough final nuclear deal...

U.S. President Barack Obama hailed last week's Supreme Court decision to allow same-sex marriage as a "thunderbolt" but few share his view of gay rights in socially and religiously conservative Africa, which he visits this month. In most of Africa's...

A Taliban suicide car bomb attack on a convoy of NATO troops in Kabul on Tuesday wounded 21 Afghan civilians and killed one, police and witnesses said. Two coalition soldiers suffered light wounds, a U.S. public affairs officer said in...