A high-ranking commander of al-Shabab militant group has been killed by Somali government forces during an operation in Somalia’s southwestern region of Bakool.

The International Criminal Court (ICC) has called on South Africa to arrest Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, who is in the country to attend a summit of the African Union (AU).

Abdel Fattah el-Sisi canceled a planned visit to South Africa to attend the African Union (AU) summit this week, one day after a group of lawyers filed an official legal request for his arrest.

Militants have stormed the Tunisian consulate in the Libyan capital city of Tripoli, kidnapping ten employees of the diplomatic mission, Tunisia’s Foreign Ministry says.

Takfiri Boko Haram militants have killed more than three dozen people and injured several others in a series of violent attacks on villages in the troubled northeastern Nigeria.

Senior military officials from Nigeria and some of its neighboring countries have held talks to define strategies for a new regional force against Takfiri Boko Haram militants.

The ISIL Takfiri group has claimed to have seized "full control" of Libya's coastal city of Sirte and a steam power plant near the city from the Libya Dawn militia, a report says.

A delegation of senior Egyptian intelligence authorities has recently met with top officials from the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas to discuss bilateral relations, sources say.

The Obama administration has sent Congress a report that harshly criticizes the Egyptian government

An Egyptian political prisoner has died in a jail in al-Qalyubia Governorate north of the capital city of Cairo, Press TV reports.

Somalia's prime minister predicted Monday that al-Shabab extremists will be defeated militarily by the end of the year but he said tackling the root causes that attract young people to the al-Qaida-linked group will take some time.

A court in Egypt has handed down two-year jail sentences to 12 supporters of ousted President Mohamed Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood movement over alleged roles in violence.

At least three people have been killed in a fresh cross-border attack by Somalia-based Takfiri al-Shabab militant group in the troubled northeast of Kenya, security sources say.

An attack by the ISIL Takfiri terrorist group has claimed the lives of four security forces in the Libyan northwestern city of Misrata.

Egypt has launched its first naval military drills with Russia in the Mediterranean Sea aimed at enhancing mutual military cooperation between the two states, Russian defense ministry announced.

Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir has formed a new government, a month after he secured a landslide victory in elections boycotted by the opposition and marred by allegations of fraud.

'Northern Corridor' countries want online security as millions are invested in oil and transport projects.

Ghanaian President John Dramani Mahama says the death toll from a huge blast in the capital city of Accra has risen to around 150.

Five men were charged on Thursday in connection with an attack by Somali gunmen on Garissa University in northeast Kenya that killed 148 students, the worst militant attack in the east African nation in almost two decades.

The death toll from a deadly bomb attack in a market in northeastern Nigeria has reached 31, emergency officials say.