Teachers' union confirms terrorist attack in Niger, killing nine civilians, including one of its members, near Burkina Faso border.

"The provisional toll of the attack... is 69 dead, including the mayor ... The world's poorest country by the benchmark of the UN's Human Development Index (HDI), Niger is facing jihadist insurgencies ...

Several soldiers were killed in a jihadist attack on Niger troops in the southwest of the country, a local source said Wednesday. The source said an army river brigade had been attacked in the ...

Jihadists have intensified their offensives in the Sahel region in recent weeks, carrying out bloody raids in Mali, ...

The Malian army said it had foiled an attack on a military camp in Timbuktu on Monday morning, a day after a jihadist assault ...

At least 100 people were killed in an attack on a village by armed cattle herders in the north of Nigeria. The region has ...

Challenged by a spreading insurgency that is employing new tactics and equipment, the Nigerian military has lost control of a ...

Islamist militants hit two more military installations on Wednesday and Thursday, Mali's army said, the latest in a quick spate of attacks that the insurgents say have killed hundreds of soldiers and ...

Ukrainian military instructors are allegedly training and arming al-Qaeda-linked jihadist groups in Mali, according to a report by the Malian m ...

An Al Qaeda-linked jihadist group active in West Africa's Sahel region has claimed an attack on a military base in Mali on ...

KANO - A jihadist attack killed at least nine civilians in ... The violence has spilled into neighbouring Niger, Chad and Cameroon, prompting a regional military coalition to fight the jihadist ...

Nearly two years after Niger's military seized power and the border with Benin was shut, tensions over security, sovereignty ...