Lisa Schlein GENEVA ? The United Nations is launching a campaign to end the recruitment and use of child soldiers by 2016. It says eight governments on a Security Council list of child recruiters have...

Con 325 sì e 177 no Montecitorio vota la fiducia al governo. Il sì definitivo è atteso in serata. Il decreto era stato varato ad ottobre dal governo Letta. Il Senato lo aveva già votato e la conversion...

A car bomb explodes at Somalia's presidential palace, followed by a fierce gun battle inside - the president was not harmed but two officials are killed.

[Dalsan Radio]The Military court of Somalia today executed three soldiers in Mogadishu who were charged and convicted of killing soldiers and a journalist in Mogadishu last year....

Mohammed Yusuf NAIROBI ? The radical Kenyan cleric Sheikh Abubakar Shariff, also known as Makaburi, was killed by unknown gunmen Tuesday evening outside Mombasa#39;s Shanzu Law Courts. Accused by U.S. ...

MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) ? A U.S. missile strike that killed a high-ranking intelligence officer for al-Shabab has illustrated the stepped-up pressure on the al-Qaida-linked militants, both from America...

WASHINGTON ? Amid a surge of Islamic militancy in North Africa, a team of fewer than 50 U.S. special operations troops with a single helicopter arrived at a remote base in western Tunisia last month. T...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The arrest of Abdirahman Isse Hassan, a Somali murder suspect who quietly slipped into hiding in South Sudan, through the efforts of the Somali National Police Force (SNPF) has ...

Spokesman for African Union forces in Somalia says al-Qaeda-linked group was driven from Hudur, a statement it denies.

For decades, one golden rule has guided America's military involvement in Africa: Stay out. Generally speaking, the reason was a sense that the strategic stakes did not justify the risk. When we deviat...