MILITARY STRIKE REPORTED IN SOUTHERN SOMALI TOWN
By ABDI GULED and JASON STRAZIUSO FILE – In this Thursday, Feb. 17, 2011 file photo, al-Shabab fighters march with their weapons during military exercises on the outskirts of Mogadishu,…
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KENYA’S MILITARY SPOKESMAN NAMES ATTACKERS
By RUKMINI CALLIMACHI An armed police officer stands guard in front of the Salvation Army Church after it was set on fire by rioting youths, following Friday Muslim prayers in…
EGYPT: ATTACK ON ARMY CONVOY KILLS 2 SOLDIERS
By TONY G. GABRIEL FILE – In this file photo taken Friday, Sept. 20, 2013, Egypt’s Defense Minister Gen. Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, center, Egyptian Prime Minister Hazem el-Beblawi, right, and army’s…
RUSSIAN EMBASSY IN LIBYA EVACUATED AFTER ATTACK
By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Map locates Tripoli, Libya, where where an armed mob broke into the Russian embassy; 2c x 4 inches; 96.3 mm x 101 mm; MOSCOW (AP) — Russia…
ISLAMIC FIGHTERS CONNECT IN AFRICA
BY CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA FILE – This file image taken from video, and provided by U.S.-based SITE Intelligence Group Thursday Sept. 30, 2010 shows a foreign hostage who was among seven…
EGYPT’S BROTHERHOOD VILIFIES ARMY AHEAD OF RALLIES
By SARAH EL DEEB In this image released by the Delegation of European Union in Egypt, Egyptian Minister of Defense, Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, right, meets with High Representative of the European…
MIGRANT SHIP CAPSIZES OFF ITALY, KILLING 94
By NICOLE WINFIELD Bodies of drowned migrants are lined up in the port of Lampedusa Thursday, Oct. 3, 2013. Tens of people died when a ship carrying African migrants toward…
NO. OF ATTACKERS AT KENYA MALL MAY HAVE BEEN FEWER
Bullet-holes pepper the glass door of a shop in the Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2013. Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta says Kenya will keep its troops in…