Security & Defense Bound

By Rouba El Husseini and Hashem Osseiran: The health ministry said 32 people were wounded.  Amal said three of its members were killed, while Hezbollah announced that funerals of two men and one woman would take place on Friday.   A doctor at Beirut's Sahel hospital...

By Selim Saheb Ettaba: West Africa is a small but strategic hub for smugglers moving drugs from Latin America to Europe and the Middle East. What is Africa's role in the drug trade? Africa appears to have become an attractive hub for drug transshipments mainly...

Facing a spate of jihadist attacks, Niger on Friday opened its first military school in the capital Niamey to train future officers.   "We have set in place with this school the final link in the chain for training our military," President Mohamed Bazoum said at the ...

An Algerian border guard was killed and two wounded on Wednesday evening when a bomb went off near the Moroccan border, the defence ministry said Thursday. The home-made device exploded as they passed during a patrol to "secure the borders and tackle organised crime",...