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The disputed leader of Boko Haram knows how to cheat death — and do it in style. After the Nigerian army declared him “fatally wounded” on Aug. 19, Abubakar Shekau...
Major General of Nigeria's military, Lucky Irabor, has claimed that he expect's Boko Haram's last few strongholds to fall over the next few weeks. Although President Muhammadu Buhari set a...
Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari confirmed that the leader of ISIS-affiliated Boko Haram, Abubakar Shekau, was injured in an airstrike conducted by the country's airforce. “We learned that in an airstrike...
A Boko Haram landmine killed four Chadian soldiers near the border with Niger at Kaiga Kindji in the Lake Chad region. The soldiers were killed on Saturday whilst on patrol....
Starving and alone, five-year-old Umar was left for dead in a camp for internally displaced people in northeast Nigeria. The reason? He is the son of a Boko Haram fighter....
Cameroonian journalist, Bisong Etahoben, has claimed that a Cameroonian court has sentenced 109 supposed ISIS-affiliated Boko Haram members to death. Nigerians have praised the brutal measures by Cameroon by denouncing...
Adams Oshiomhole, governor of Edo State in Nigeria, has stated that the people were proud of the Nigerian Armed Forces in their attempt to bring peace and security by defeating...
The World Food Program (WFP) have released a report claiming that it needs $52 million between now and the end of the year to be able to support over 700,000...
In an ambitious air raid, the Nigerian Air Force have targeted the ISIS-affiliated Boko Haram in Taye village near Sambisa forest, Borno State. The raid occurred on Friday whilst the...
The Boko Haram terrorist group killed 10 people, abducted 13 and burnt the village of Kubrrivu near the northeastern town of Chibok on Saturday. The attack happened on early Saturday...
BEIRUT, LEBANON (9:40 P.M.) - Libyan politician Ahmed Gaddaf al-Dam said that Saif al-Islam Gaddafi is the favorite if he...
Read moreBEIRUT, LEBANON (2:00 P.M.) - The Iranian website, Noor News, revealed new details about the attack on the Iranian ship...
Read moreBEIRUT, LEBANON (7:30 P.M.) - On Monday, Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry commented on the return of Syria to the...
Read moreIran's Vice-President Ali Akbar Salehi has announced that Tehran is treating today's incident involving Natanz nuclear plant's power grid as...
Read moreBEIRUT, LEBANON (8:40 P.M.) - Damascus and Moscow discussed on Thursday, the intensification of bilateral action and exerting efforts to...
Read moreBEIRUT, LEBANON (4:00 P.M.) - A source in the Syrian Oil Transport Company confirmed to RT Arabic on Wednesday that...
Read moreBEIRUT, LEBANON (8:10 P.M.) - The Iranian Armed Forces vowed on Thursday that they would respond without any doubt to...
Read moreBEIRUT, LEBANON (7:40 A.M.) - A spokesman for the Iranian Atomic Energy Organization, Behrouz Kamalvandi, announced on Sunday that an...
Read moreBEIRUT, LEBANON (2:40 P.M.) - The Turkish media reported on Friday that the United States had officially informed Turkey that...
Read moreBEIRUT, LEBANON (5:00 P.M.) - The Iraqi Prime Minister of Iraq, Mustafa Al-Kazemi, said this week that the Iraqi security...
Read moreBEIRUT, LEBANON (8:30 P.M.) - According to a recent report published by Washington Post, Abu Ibrahim Al-Hashemi Al-Qurashi, the successor...
Read moreBEIRUT, LEBANON (9:10 P.M.) - Damascus demanded that the American administration "compensate for the heavy damage and heavy losses inflicted...
Read moreBEIRUT, LEBANON (5:00 P.M.) - On Friday, the Security Media Cell in Iraq said that a large warehouse of filled...
Read moreBEIRUT, LEBANON (1:20 P.M.) - The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) announced on Thursday morning that its air defenses responded to...
Read moreIran will introduce 1,000 more centrifuges at the Natanz nuclear site, Chief Iranian Nuclear Negotiator Abbas Araghchi has said. Iran...
Read moreBEIRUT, LEBANON (5:20 P.M.) - The Lebanese Foreign Ministry condemned the Israeli air attack on the vicinity of the Syrian...
Read moreBEIRUT, LEBANON (2:40 P.M.) - Lebanese Foreign Minister Charbel Wehbe revealed on Tuesday that President Michel Aoun called Syrian President...
Read moreBEIRUT, LEBANON (10:40 A.M.) - The Houthi forces continued their offensive in western Marib this week, in an attempt to...
Read moreTehran has started up new uranium enrichment centrifuges, Iranian state TV reported on Saturday. Iranian President Hassan Rouhani officially inaugurated...
Read moreBEIRUT, LEBANON (7:00 P.M.) - The Houthi forces, also known as the Ansarallah Movement, in Yemen announced that its forces...
Read moreA pilot was killed after an Indian Air Force MiG-21 Bison aircraft crashed while taking off for a combat training...
Read moreBEIRUT, LEBANON (11:40 A.M.) - Muhammad Ali Al-Houthi, a member of the Supreme Political Council of the Ansarallah Movement in...
Read moreBEIRUT, LEBANON (8:00 A.M.) - The Houthi forces, also known as the Ansarallah Movement, announced that it had targeted the...
Read moreBEIRUT, LEBANON (2:40 P.M.) - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused the Syrian Armed Forces of firing rockets into a...
Read moreThe secretary of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council, Andrei Danilov, confirmed imposing sanctions on several Russian companies in a...
Read moreBEIRUT, LEBANON (11:20 A.M.) - Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu said that Russia and the United States maintain close contacts...
Read moreBEIRUT, LEBANON (3:20 P.M.) - The commander of the Iranian air defense, Brigadier General Ali Sabahi Fard, said on Saturday,...
Read moreBEIRUT, LEBANON (10:10 P.M.) - The Israeli army announced yesterday that it thwarted an attempt to smuggle weapons and drugs...
Read moreBEIRUT, LEBANON (7:30 P.M.) - For the first time ever, supersonic weapons interceptors and their carriers were being trained in...
Read moreBEIRUT, LEBANON (1:45 P.M.) - On Tuesday, Reuters reported hat China will receive another large influx of Iranian oil, despite...
Read moreBEIRUT, LEBANON (9:30 P.M.) - All sea ports in the Syrian governorates of Tartous and Latakia suspended sea traffic on...
Read moreThis is a summary of 4 AMN articles on the following subjects: Houthi, Marib, Yemen, Iran, Jordan, Houthii, Saudi, Syria....
Read moreBEIRUT, LEBANON (3:35 P.M.) - The US aircraft carrier, USS Dwight D. Eisenhower, arrived at the Marathi naval base on...
Read moreBEIRUT, LEBANON (10:00 A.M.) - The Turkish army stationed in northern Syria launched an artillery attack on several sites belonging...
Read moreBEIRUT, LEBANON (10:20 A.M.) - Turkish military specialists in Libya are training soldiers from the Libyan Government of National Accord...
Read moreBEIRUT, LEBANON (4:40 P.M.) - A source from the Saudi Energy Ministry confirmed to Sky News Arabia on Friday that...
Read moreBEIRUT, LEBANON (6:40 P.M.) - On Friday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan called for an international conference on the situation...
Read moreBEIRUT, LEBANON (2:45 P.M.) - On Wednesday, King Abdullah II of Jordan sent a letter to the Division about the...
Read moreBEIRUT, LEBANON (10:30 A.M.) - The French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle arrived in the Gulf waters as part of...
Read moreBEIRUT, LEBANON (8:30 A.M.) - Turkey has notified Greece, Israel and the European Union of the necessity to obtain its...
Read moreBEIRUT, LEBANON (10:20 A.M.) - On Friday, state-owned Syrian TV announced the arrival of Syrian Foreign Minister Faisal Al-Miqdad and...
Read moreBEIRUT, LEBANON (3:40 P.M.) - The Iraqi Joint Operations Command revealed the completion of the closure of about 140 km...
Read moreA newly surfaced video captures the dramatic encounter on a mountainous terrain where a Saudi F-15 fighter jet intercepted a...
Read moreBEIRUT, LEBANON (12:30 P.M.) - The Turkish Ministry of Defense announced the 'neutralization' of 14 militants, whom it said belonged...
Read moreRecently released satellite images of the maritime jam on both sides of the temporarily closed Suez Canal show more than...
Read moreAccording to the terms of the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), the only centrifuges that may be housed...
Read moreBEIRUT, LEBANON (6:20 P.M.) - The spokesman for the Iranian Foreign Ministry Saeed Khatibzadeh confirmed on Friday, the release of...
Read moreBEIRUT, LEBANON (11:40 P.M.) - Russian Ka-226 light multi-purpose helicopters were first seen during a training exercise by the Syrian...
Read moreBEIRUT, LEBANON (9:10 P.M.) - Members of the Arab tribes in the northeastern countryside of Deir Ezzor organized a protest...
Read moreBEIRUT, LEBANON (11:00 A.M.) - Venezuela considered the suspension of the Facebook page of President Nicolas Maduro for 30 days...
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