
ISIL has claimed its first suicide attack in Somalia, which police said Wednesday killed five people at a checkpoint in the northeastern port city of Bosaso. The group’s self-styled news agency Amaq claimed the “martyrdom-seeking operation with an explosive vest” in a statement carried by the SITE Intelligence Group. The ...

The US Army has issued a more than $140-million foreign military sales contract to arrange a new round of training and mentoring for the Afghan Security Forces, the Department of Defense announced. “PAE Government Services [in] Arlington, Virginia was awarded a $142 million… foreign military sales (Afghanistan) contract for training ...