Authorities blame the deadly attack in the town of Kokorou on the Islamic State in the Great Sahara, an ISIL affiliate.

DAKAR, Senegal -- An attack by a jihadi group on a village in western Niger has killed 44 civilians, the country's Interior Ministry said.

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — An attack by a jihadi group on a village in western Niger has killed 44 civilians, the country’s Interior Ministry said.

U.S. Rep. Blake Moore (R-UT) has introduced bipartisan legislation to extend tax benefits to American service members ...

The Trump administration's sweeping cuts in foreign aid have impacted programs in northern Ivory Coast to counter the spread of al-Qaida and the Islamic State group ...

More than 6,300 civilians have been killed since the coup, and more than 28,000 arrested, according to the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP) monitoring group. The conflict has ...

This is the highest number of countries deteriorating because of terrorism since 2018. According to the data from the Global Terrorism Index, Sahel (a biogeographical region in Africa) is the top ...

The recent formal exit of the Alliance of Sahel States or Alliance d’Etats ... The parting of ways was precipitated by a rash of military coups that swept away so-called democratic governments ...

Romanian officials announced the arrest of six alleged coup plotters on Thursday, accused the detainees of working with "agents of a foreign power, located both in Romania and the Russian Federation." ...

West Africa's Sahel region remains the global epicentre of violent extremism, accounting for the majority of all terrorism-related deaths last year, according to a new report. The Global Terrorism ...

The Sahel region of Africa is the "epicentre of global terrorism" and now, for the first time, accounts for "over half of all terrorism-related deaths", according to the Global Terrorism Index (GTI).

IS-Sahel has reportedly doubled the amount of territory it controls in Mali since the country's coups of 2020 and 2021 - largely in the east near its borders with Burkina Faso and Niger - while ...