The Iranian judiciary’s Mizan news agency announced the executions, saying that the death sentences had been upheld by the ...

The two-year-old Africa Corps, which has links to a covert branch of Russia’s army, is ascendant at a time when U.S. and ...

Since seizing control in September 2022, insurgents continue to expand their territory ...

With up to 6,000 fighters, JNIM is now the most well-armed militant force in the Sahel — and among the most powerful in the ...

The Russia-backed Wagner Group said Friday it is leaving Mali after more than three and a half years of fighting Islamic extremists and insurgents in the country.

In this Feb. 18, 2020 photo, Burkina Faso paratroopers are being trained at the U.S. military-led annual Flintlock counterterrorism exercise in West Africa. (AP Photo/Cheikh A.T Sy) United States ...

Barrick Mining is fighting to retain control of its gold operations in Mali after the West African country's military junta moved to place the mining complex under administration. The Canadian ...

OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) — The military rulers of Burkina Faso have turned to a man once known as “Africa’s Che Guevara” as a way to rally a country struggling to defeat extremists ...

A 36-minute video purporting to show Pope Leo XIV reading a statement denouncing colonialism and praising Captain Ibrahim Traoré, the 37-year-old leader of Burkina Faso, has garnered nearly a ...

The company said on May 19 that discussions with the government of Mali on finalising the export permit for spodumene concentrate produced at Bougouni are continuing as planned and that the permit ...