At least seven soldiers were killed when fighters of the Somali Islamist group al Shabaab stormed a jail in the semi-autonomous state of Puntland early on Friday, police and the group said. Al Shabaab said it had freed at least 400 prisoners, many of them its members, in its assault ...
The Italian ambassador to Democratic Republic of Congo was killed Monday in an attack on a United Nations convoy in the east of the country, several reports said. The convoy was attacked near the town of Kanyamahoro at around 10:15 a.m. (GMT+2) and was part of a kidnap attempt, the ...
