A civil society organisation, Stand Up Nigeria (SUN), has alleged that the insecurity in Iraq and Syria have a direct bearing on the growth of the Boko Haram sect. Christie
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Russian defence ministry said a Mi-8 helicopter belonging to the government, and with five people on board, was shot down in Syria’s North-Western Idlib province, on Monday. The ministry said
Twenty-four persons are displaced every minute and one in 113 people on earth is either a refugee, asylum seeker or internally displaced, according to the UN refugee agency. UNHCR’s annual
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says Abu Omar al-Shishani, who Pentagon described as the Islamic State’s “minister of war”,
Boko Haram militants trained in Somalia before departing for Nigeria, according to President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud. Reuters quoted Mohamud as
President Vladimir Putin of Russia says the row between Saudi Arabia and Iran over Riyadh’s execution of a Shi’ite Muslim
The remains of the Russian pilot in the military jet that was shot down last week has been flown to