Tag: Attack

Somali insurgents on Monday mounted an ambitious attack on a base where US special forces train Somali commandos, while an ...

Police vehicles were pelted with stones as they tried to evict illegal vendors from a congested area in town.

Police vow to clamp down on illegal trading in Joburg CBD

2 August 2019, 9:52 AM

Police have vowed to continue clamping down on illegal trading in the Johannesburg CBD despite Thursday’s violent attack on them ...

(File image) It said a bomber riding a motorcycle blew himself up at a military checkpoint.

IS claims deadly attack on Syrian government troops

28 July 2019, 9:16 AM

The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for an attack that killed six soldiers in Syria's southern province of Daraa, ...

Workers at the port in the coastal town of Kismayo in southern Somalia.

Somalia security forces end militant attack on hotel that killed 13: police officer

13 July 2019, 7:42 AM

Somalia's security forces on Saturday ended an overnight attack by the al Shabaab militant group on a hotel in the ...

Injured migrants lie on hospital beds at a medical emergency ward in a hospital in the capital Tripoli.

UN condemns Libya attack, calls for emergency session

by Bomkazi Malobola

3 July 2019, 9:19 PM

The United Nations Security Council will meet in an emergency session later on Monday after an airstrike on a migrant ...

South Africa says the prayers and thoughts of the South African people are with the families which lost their loved ones in the attack in Libya.

SA condemns migrant centre attack in Libya

by Bomkazi Malobola

3 July 2019, 5:52 PM

President Cyril Ramaphosa has condemned the attack of migrant centre in Tripoli, Libya.

UN strongly condemns Mali attack

by Bomkazi Malobola

11 June 2019, 5:51 AM

The United Nations Secretary-General is outraged by reports that at least 95 civilians, including women and children, have been killed ...

A Libyan fighter loyal to the Government of National Accord (GNA) gestures as a fellow fighter fires a truck-mounted gun during clashes with forces loyal to strongman Khalifa Haftar south of the capital Tripoli.

Anti-Haftar forces near Libya capital launch counter-attack

20 April 2019, 10:23 PM

Forces loyal to Libya's unity government announced Saturday a counter-attack against military strongman Khalifa Haftar's fighters, as clashes south of ...

Indian peacekeepers from the MONUSCO, the UN peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

One rebel killed in eastern DR Congo hospital attack

20 April 2019, 5:47 PM

The DR Congo army fought off an attack on a hospital by a rebel group, killing one militiaman, police said ...

A loud explosion and gunfire was heard in central Kabul on Saturday, in a blast Afghan officials said occurred near the communication ministry.

Suicide bombers in deadly attack on Afghan ministry

20 April 2019, 5:23 PM

Suicide bombers and gunmen attacked the communications ministry in central Kabul on Saturday, officials said, in a deadly, hours-long assault ...

Around 437 000 people have fled the fighting, according to the United Nations.

Security forces in troubled Cameroon kill 5 civilians: HRW

10 April 2019, 6:30 PM

Cameroonian security forces have killed five civilian men, one of whom was beheaded, in an attack on a village in ...

The foreign nationals say armed attackers told them that things will get worse if they don't go back to their countries of origin.

Scores of foreign nationals attacked in Durban

by Skhangiwe Mthiyane

27 March 2019, 2:17 PM

Scores of foreign nationals are fleeing informal settlements in the Durban suburb of Sydenham after some of them were attacked ...

Jussie Smollett pleads not guilty to new charges

15 March 2019, 8:22 AM

‘Empire’ actor, Jussie Smollett, has pleaded not guilty in a Chicago court to new charges that he falsely reported to ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo is one of the worst countries affected by Ebola.

Attack on DR Congo Ebola centre leaves one dead

by Lerato Matlala

9 March 2019, 5:01 PM

Armed men attacked an Ebola treatment centre in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) again on Saturday, ...

A civilian who was driving the vehicle was also wounded, according to MINUSMA, which said it was "shocked by the cowardly assassination of the three Blue Helmets".

Three UN peacekeepers killed by suspected bandits in Mali

24 February 2019, 6:21 AM

Three UN peacekeepers in Mali have been killed by suspected bandits while travelling on leave along the road from the ...

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to the media.

Trump attacks on press ‘dangerous’ and ‘reckless’: NYT publisher

20 February 2019, 9:06 PM

17 February 2019, 7:22 AM

US President Donald Trump's attacks on the press are "reckless" and "dangerous" and threaten to encourage violence against journalists at ...

Chicago police seek follow-up interview with ‘Empire’ actor

by Celestine Hendricks

Chicago police have shifted the direction of their investigation into actor Jussie Smollett’s report of a hate-crime assault and are ...

Several wounded in Cameroon governor’s convoy attack

15 February 2019, 11:15 AM

At least 11 people have been wounded in an attack on the convoy of the governor of the English-speaking region ...

Boko Haram's bloody insurgency began in north-eastern Nigeria in 2009 but has since spread into neighbouring countries, prompting a regional military response.

Boko Haram kills four people, three wounded in Niger attack

29 January 2019, 2:41 PM