As unfortunate as it is for the locals or Americans who travel to such risky areas, Al-Shabaab is a regional African problem, ...

Given the current state of the world, with turmoil in the Middle East and the ever-present saber rattling from China over ...

Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso are fighting an insurgency linked to al-Qaeda and the Islamic State (IS) that began in northern ...

The Ain al-Asad base has so far hosted the bulk of American forces in Iraq, which are part of the international coalition ...

Soldiers who deployed to 14 countries in Africa and the Middle East between October 2023 and June 2025 are now authorized to wear combat patches, according to a policy released last week.

South Sudan's President Salva Kiir has fired the country's army chief after seven months in the post and named a replacement, ...