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Nigeria is the country with the fourth highest proportion of people who report feeling less safe than five years ago, ...

Ayman Al-Zawahiri was in downtown Kabul where he was reuniting with his family and was killed in what a senior ...

In the last week, the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has re-invigorated the 'G7' security operations to secure the territory, ...

According to the report, the civilian casualties were mainly caused by improvised explosive device (IED) attacks attributed to the Islamic ...

George W. Bush, Tony Blair...and all the other heads of state, presidents and leaders who led their countries into participating ...

Nine journalists were killed in Sub-Saharan Africa, most of whom were in the Democratic Republic of Congo, followed by Burkina ...

"The latest data shows there are now more than 45 million people marching towards the brink of starvation,” said WFP ...

These journalists, the CPJ said, were “killed in a nexus of corruption, organised crime, extremist groups, and government retaliation."

History has taught us that it is better to address the fundamental causes of friction in a society than to ...

In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful All Praise is due to Allah, We praise Him and we ...

FILE PHOTO: Bandits The most worrisome angle to the banditry in Northern Nigeria is the new alliance between the bandits ...

To prevent continued attacks, the next generation of counter-terrorism must be people-centred, not focused on military might.

Taliban forces at the Kabul Airport. Picture credit: REUTERS/Stringer Apparently, the Taliban celebrated too soon. By the following morning when ...

Security sector reform was a cornerstone of nation-building efforts in Afghanistan.

Google says Nigerians were also interested in ongoing events in Afghanistan after the news of the withdrawal of the United ...

Taliban members guarding the airport now are virtually indistinguishable from the U.S. troops who had guarded it up until Monday, ...

Apart from the U.S. soldiers, about 60 people are believed to have been killed in the explosion

The U.S. Pentagon described the Kabul explosions as a “complex attack,” saying it caused a number of U.S. and civilian ...

Twenty years after they were chased out of Kabul by a furious America in 2001, the Taliban have returned to ...

in five days ending last Saturday, the Taliban took over seven cities, including Khandar, its birth place and second largest ...

Collage of Pakistan flag and a Taliban fighter. Picture credit: Reuters. Perpetually at conflict with India, Pakistan’s Afghan frontier is ...

In order to build the Nigeria that we want, we should start to work on making sure that a girl-child ...

The Afghanistan problem is as much as internally propelled as it is externally induced, involving a web of forces with ...

Damned lies about Afghanistan won’t help. A Western trope is that the place was always bound to collapse, because its ...

“Nigeria is not and will not be a failed State," Lai Mohammed says.