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Officials say a weekend explosion in Ethiopia's capital that killed two people impacted a home used by U.S. Embassy personnel.Ethiopia's state TV says the identities of those killed in the Sunday blast are not known. The government also has not said what caused the blast. The area hosts a large Somali population.An FBI document obtained by The Associated Press says the blast "impacted the wall of a U.S. employee residence."Kenya last month saw the Somali militant group al-Shabab kill 67 people during a siege on a Nairobi shopping mall. Al-Shabab in 2010 detonated bombs in Uganda's capital during the World Cup final, killing more than 70 people.Al-Shabab said those attacks were retaliation because Kenya and Uganda have troops in Somalia. Ethiopia also has troops in Somalia....
Before you rejoice that the government has seized an alleged terrorist in Libya who was indicted for planning the notorious 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in Africa, bef...
The al-Shabab stronghold of Barawe, a coastal town in Somalia where U.S. Navy SEALs came ashore in a failed raid last weekend, is gripped by fear and tension as resi...
The al-Shabab stronghold of Barawe, a coastal town in Somalia where U.S. Navy SEALs came ashore in a failed raid last weekend, is gripped by fear and tension as resi...
Libya said Sunday it has asked the United States for "clarifications" regarding the abduction in Tripoli of an al-Qaida leader linked to the 1998 U.S. Embassy bombin...
Libya says in a statement that it has asked the United States for "clarifications" regarding the abduction in Tripoli of an al-Qaida leader linked to the 1998 U.S. E...
The United States Embassy in Cairo will be closed this Sunday as Secretary of State John Kerry arrives in Egypt for a series of high-level meetings as part of his fi...
The government of Rwanda says warlord Bosco Ntaganda, who was previously on the run in neighboring Congo, has turned himself in to the United States Embassy in Kigal...
Rwanda's justice minister says his government will not hinder the transfer of Congolese warlord Bosco Ntaganda from the United States Embassy in Kigali to the Intern...
A suicide attack against the United States Embassy in Ankara Friday left two people dead, a security guard and the bomber.The attack took place at a security post at...
Salim Massebellah had just reached the parking lot at Nairobi's premiere mall. Private guards inspected his trunk, then passed a mirror underneath his vehicle, check...
The U.S. Defense Department confirmed Monday that it tried but failed to capture a top leader of the Somali radical Islamist group Al Shabaab last weekend.In a commu...
Iran has more enriched uranium than it needs and plans to use that as a bargaining chip at nuclear talks in Geneva next week, Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani...
An explosion that struck one of the most prestigious hotels in Myanmar's main city was caused by a small, homemade time bomb, police said Tuesday.Officer Myint Htwe ...
The Egyptian government said a U.S. citizen it detained in the Sinai Peninsula last month for violating curfew was found dead Sunday in his jail cell, the second for...
Police in Myanmar say there was an explosion at one of the largest hotels in the main city Yangon and one American was wounded.It was not immediately clear what caus...
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro announced Monday the expulsion of the charge d'affaires and two other diplomats at the U.S. Embassy in Caracas for allegedly prom...
Tunisia's president lamented last year's attack on the U.S. Embassy in his country and the July killing of an opposition lawmaker, who was slain after the CIA warned...
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