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The US President said intelligence officials tracked al-Zawahiri to a home in downtown Kabul where he was hiding out with his family

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Earlier this month, watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington called on the Department of Justice (DOJ) to criminally investigate Mr Trump’s Bedminster golf club over its use of the seal

Mali’s military says two attackers have been neutralised after the latest attack on a military base.

The UNDP’s Resident Representative in Kabul, Afghanistan, Abdullah Dardari, told Asharq Al-Awsat that the political dialogue between the international body and the Taliban was constructive and making progress before the latter issued a decision to ban girls from education. Dardari noted that the Taliban is fighting a vicious and explicit…

US Africa Command says strike in southern Lower Juba region was carried out in response to attack on ‘partner forces’.

A constellation of factors have converged to bolster the Islamist militant group in Somalia, writes Sudarsan Raghavan

The Pentagon said Tuesday that it killed a leader of the ISIS group in Syria in a drone strike. US Central Command said in a news release that Maher al-Agal was killed Tuesday and an unidentified senior official in the ISIS group was seriously injured. The Pentagon said there were…

The country is emerging as a critical ally in a neighbourhood of failing states