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Nine people were killed when suspected jihadists attacked a mosque in northeastern Burkina Faso, local sources said  Thursday. The attack happened at around nightfall on Wednesday in the village of Goulgountou in Burkina's Sahel region, when assailants arrived on...

CIA chief William Burns has met Libya's interim premier weeks after the authorities handed the United States a suspect in the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, the Tripoli-based government said Thursday. The meeting in Tripoli, also reported by Libyan media, was part of the...

Fourteen Malian soldiers were killed in a clash with jihadists this week, the army said Thursday, giving a new toll in an attack claimed by an Al-Qaeda-linked group. Fighting erupted when an army unit was hit by roadside bombs between the towns of Mopti and Segou in...

An Algerian policeman shot a teenage boy who later died when a gang tried to stop officers during the latest in a string of drug busts, police said Tuesday. Officers searching a house in the Baraki suburb of the capital Algiers were "surprised" by young men trying to...