The US peace envoy to Afghanistan, Zalmay Khalilzad, met Sunday with leaders in Kabul to discuss bil

US Africa Command's General Stephen Townsend tells lawmakers his greatest concern pertains to Africa

Botswana's President Masisi says the region cannot stand by and watch the people of Mozambique being

Law and Order, West Africa: US exercise aims to strengthen police and courts in fighting terrorism i

A Russian demining team is clearing the area of UXO in preparation for new construction, officials s

Nearly 6,000 SDF fighters, local security forces and members of anti-terror units are participating

Treasury says sanctions not directed at citizens 

SDF says it has captured dozens of IS members in the eastern Syrian province of Deir el-Zour

Envoy tells VOA takeover is 'illegitimate' and a 'total injustice that I can't stand'

European leaders share many of Biden's policy priorities, but relations with China could prove probl

Analysts say move risks upending delicate situation that both African Union and United Nations have

Move likely to anger Pyongyang

Allegations stem from four-year inquiry into actions of elite troops from 2005 to 2016

News of the potential/military/changes began circulating Monday and brought swift criticism from exp

News of the potential/military/changes began circulating Monday and brought swift criticism from exp

The move is designed to deter US investment firms, pension funds and others from buying and selling

With Trump out of White House they see themselves as deprived of a powerful cheerleading ally in Was

With Trump out of White House they would be deprived of powerful cheerleading ally in Washington

Forces including Navy SEALs rescued 27-year-old Philip Walton, who had been abducted on Tuesday from

Despite territorial defeat in March 2019, IS has carried out terror attacks against civilians and mi

60 US surveillance planes flew just off China's coastline in September, a Chinese think tank says

'Both (Trump and Biden)supported us, so Ukraine shouldn't lose out either way' one Ukrainian who is

Several countries are retreating from core democratic principles, California Representative Karen Ba

The U.S. Embassy in Kyiv said the U.S. Army-led Rapid Trident exercises, taking place near Yavoriv i

National Security Council spokesman blames Russian military for 'unsafe and unprofessional actions'

One official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said the injuries were a result of a collision

Second phase of human trials for COVID-19 vaccine underway in South Africa///

The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces accuse IS sleeper cells and Syrian government proxies of ca

In Canada's remote, sparsely populated Atlantic region, cases are so rare that the four easternmost

An American company has reportedly reached a deal with Kurdish forces in northeast Syria to develop

Australian Defense Minister Linda Reynolds said the two countries will build ties across a slew of d

US envoy Zalmay Khalilzad apparently attributes reduction in violence to Washington's peace pact wit

UN official says people have a right to protest peacefully and should not be subjected to unnecessar

In remarks Tuesday, Esper also called out an uptick in Chinese bad behavior,' while signaling a vis

SDF forces have launched a second phase of their campaign to hunt down remnants of the IS terror gro

CENTCOM commander Gen. Kenneth Frank McKenzie also told VOA that the Afghan Taliban is not living

Increase in coronavirus cases among US troops also prompts worries among locals

Embassy flies Black Lives Matter flag; US military bans Confederate flags on its bases

Al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb leader Abdelmalek Droukdel was killed in a French-led operation June

Former Defense Secretary Jim Mattis says militarized response sets up false conflict' between milit

Young people support protests, worry about dangers

Online and on the streets, African institutions and citizens share outrage over death of black Ameri

More than 17,000 members of the U.S. National Guard are supporting state and local law enforcement,

As Minneapolis burns over the police killing of George Floyd and shock and disappointment in Africa

They say some 20 drugs come only from China and there's already one shortage 

Case highlights dangerous new component of outbreak

Trump administration had suggested cutbacks in military support to African countries

President Duterte in Manila said this month he would scrap a 32-year-old visiting forces agreement w

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is in Senegal to mark 60 years of diplomatic ties, promote deeper eco

Defense Secretary Mark Esper says the change will improve US relations with African partners while f

It has switched from trying to degrade Islamic extremist groups in West Africa's sprawling Sahel reg

The notice to terminate the decades-old military pact with Washington may be a bargaining strategy f

There are about 500 troops in the area who, according to US officials, are protecting the region's o

AFRICOM says al-Shabab used the camps to launch terror attacks on civilians

U.S. forces again have allegedly blocked Russian military convoys from entering the Kurdish-controll

American troops in northeast Syria prevented Russian military convoys from touring near the Iraqi bo

General Stephen J. Townsend says strategic partnerships in combating a growing extremist threat and

Officials say no indications the plane was downed by enemy fire