Militant attacks in Africa over the past decade increased 300% despite ongoing US operations in the region, a Pentagon report shows.

The government denied the army had seized control of the country after exchanges of gunfire at multiple army barracks.

President Bashar al-Assad says his administration has genuine potentials to overcome US-led Western sanctions, reduce their impact and rebuild Syria's damaged infrastructure.

The Democratic Republic of the Congo orders the military to take over civil authorities in two eastern regions where dozens of armed groups operate and civilians have been subjected to horrifying abuses.

A female suicide bomber in northern Cameroon kills at least 13 people, including children, a UN report says.

At least one hundred people are killed in simultaneous attack on two villages in western Niger.

Boko Haram and a splinter group known as ISWAP have killed 36,000 people in northeastern Nigeria since 2009.