•US President Donald Trump Just over a week after the United States launched strikes targeting militants in Nigeria on Christmas Day, a roadside bomb ripped through an armoured troop carrier, killing at least eight Nigerian soldiers. Then, days ahead of a high-profile US-Nigeria security meeting in Abuja last week, armed gangs kidnapped more t...
•Turkish flag Turkey’s interior minister said today that 99 suspected members of the Islamic State jihadist group had been detained in recent raids across the country. The arrests were made mainly in Ankara and in Izmir in the west, as well as in the centre, east and south, Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya posted on X. […]
•Terrorists An attack blamed on jihadists in central Mali killed more than 20 civilians on Monday, two local officials said, in the latest killings in the troubled Sahel region. Mali has for over a decade been ravaged by jihadists and other armed groups, with the centre of the West African country becoming a hotbed of […]

