(Nairobi) – Two Islamist armed groups have killed several dozen civilians in three separate attacks in northern Burkina Faso since May 2025, Human Rights Watch said today. These attacks violated ...

(This May 15 story has been corrected to show that the two tolls are for different attacks in paragraphs 1 and 2) DAKAR (Reuters) - A West African al Qaeda affiliate said it killed 200 soldiers in an ...

Fifty soldiers were killed on Monday in a deadly attack on a military base in northern Burkina Faso. The assault is believed to have been carried out by Jama’at Nasr al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM), an ...

It’s been three years since Ibrahim Traoré seized power in Burkina Faso through a coup d’état. He justified his takeover by ...

FILE - Burkina Faso President Ibrahim Traore is seen at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, on May 10, 2025. (Angelos Tzortzinis/Pool Photo via AP, File) LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — An attack by an armed group ...

OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) — In the wake of a weekend attack that killed up to 32 people, security was beefed up across Burkina Faso’s capital Monday as businesses and banks reopened. The West ...

OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) – The latest developments in the assault of a hotel by al-Qaida-linked gunmen in Burkina Faso’s capital. All times are local: In a separate development, Abi Ouattara, ...