Tag: Syria
Nigeria risks ‘biblical’ famines due to coronavirus – UN
Nigeria has been listed as one of the ten countries at risk of widespread famines "of biblical proportions" caused by the coronavirus pandemic, the...
US Travel Ban: Trump restricts immigration from Nigeria, 5 other countries
The US has announced it is expanding its curbs on immigration to include six more countries, including Nigeria, Africa's most populous nation.
Citizens from Nigeria,...
Trump plans to add Nigeria to travel ban list
The Trump administration is planning to add seven countries - Nigeria, Belarus, Eritrea, Kyrgyzstan, Myanmar, Sudan and Tanzania - to its travel ban list,...
US strikes militia bases in Iraq and Syria
The US has conducted strikes against militia bases in Iraq and Syria following the death of a US contractor.
Nigeria: IS kills 11 Christians to avenge death of leaders
Islamic terrorists have killed at least 11 Christian hostages in Nigeria on Christmas Day, stating that, that the execution was to avenge the death...
Northeast Nigeria among 2020 most dangerous places in the world
Nigeria has been listed in the 2020 report of the most dangerous countries in the world because of the insurgency in the northeast of...
Baghdadi: Turkey captures dead IS leader’s wife
Turkey has captured a wife of former Islamic State (IS) group leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says.
On Tuesday Turkey said it...
ISIS leader al-Baghdadi believed to have been killed
ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is believed to have been killed in a raid conducted by the US military in northwest Syria on Saturday,...
Israeli troops accidentally fire own civilian aircraft
Israeli troops in the Golan Heights fired at an Israeli civilian aircraft on Wednesday night, having misidentified it as a hostile plane which they...
Nigeria buries soldiers at night in secret cemetery – WSJ
Wall Street Journal has provided some evidence that the Nigerian government has secretly buried many soldiers at a cemetery in Maidguri, Borno state
