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Cameroon's army has freed 24 of some 80 hostages kidnapped during a cross-border attack by suspected Boko Haram Islamist fighters based in neighboring Nigeria, a defense ministry spokesman said on Monday. The kidnapping, which occurred in the north of Cameroon...

Nigeria has summoned Indonesia's ambassador over the execution of two of its citizens by firing squad for drug trafficking, echoing protests from Brazil and the Netherlands which also each had one of their nationals executed. The southeast Asian country executed...

Suspected Boko Haram Islamist fighters from Nigeria kidnapped around 80 people, many of them children, and killed three others on Sunday in a cross-border attack on villages in northern Cameroon, army and government officials said. The group, which has killed...

Many Muslims see any depiction of Islam's prophet as offensive. In Niger, a former French colony, hundreds of demonstrators gathered at Niamey's grand mosque, shouting "God is Great" in Arabic. At least six churches were set on fire or looted in...

French police arrested 12 people on Friday suspected of helping militant Islamist gunmen in last week's killings in Paris, where visiting U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry laid wreaths at two main attack sites. The arrests came after Belgian police...

West African leaders are considering creating a military force to fight Nigeria's Boko Haram Islamist militants and will hold a regional summit next week to discuss the issue, Ghana's President John Mahama said on Friday. Regional bloc ECOWAS will seek...

Satellite photographs released Thursday by a human rights group convey the devastation in two towns in northeastern Nigeria where terrorists of the group Boko Haram massacred scores and perhaps hundreds of people this month. One town, Doron Baga, has been...

Indonesian navy divers searched for bodies on Thursday in the fuselage of an AirAsia airliner that crashed into the sea more than two weeks ago, killing all 162 people on board. A military vessel found the fuselage on Wednesday, about...

Al Qaeda in Yemen claimed responsibility for the attack on French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, saying it was ordered by the Islamist militant group's leadership for insulting the Prophet Mohammad, according to a video posted on YouTube. Gunmen killed a...

Some 20,000 Nigerians have fled to Chad, Niger and Cameroon in the past two weeks after their towns and villages were attacked by Islamist sect Boko Haram, according to the United Nations and government figures. The influx of refugees has...