Iraqi Premier Adel Abdel Mahdi said Tuesday the ISIL group had been militarily weakened but not defeated as the recent deadly Sri Lanka bombings had shown. An ISIL propaganda video released Monday with a purported appearance by the jihadist group’s elusive supremo Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi showed him in what appeared ...
Boko Haram fighters killed 21 people when they stormed into a village in northeastern Nigeria and set it on fire, residents said Tuesday. The militants, packed into four trucks and flanked by gunmen on motorbikes, swept into the village of Kuda in northeast Nigeria’s Adamawa state late on Monday afternoon, ...
