A media freedom group says local journalists in the African Sahel are facing increased security risks as extremist attacks ...

The partnership between Russia’s space agency and the governments of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger deepens these countries’ ...

OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) — Burkina Faso’s ruling junta said it thwarted an attempt to destabilize the African country ...

Islamist armed groups in Burkina Faso have escalated their attacks on civilians, massacring villagers, displaced people, and ...

However, it has claimed a series of operations inside northern Burkina Faso in recent days, all of which included photographic evidence. Any official media released by the group on the Barsalogho ...

Barsalogho lies near the town of Kaya, a strategic point in north-central Burkina Faso that houses the last ... In several videos posted on social media sites by JNIM fighters, scores of bodies ...

Having slipped undetected into Mali's capital weeks ago, the jihadis struck just before dawn prayers. They killed dozens of ...

Several dozen people, including civilians, have been killed in Burkina Faso by "terrorists", local and security sources told AFP on Sunday, August 25. Jihadist rebels affiliated with Al-Qaeda and ...

Russia is withdrawing 100 of its paramilitary officers from Burkina Faso to help in the war in Ukraine. They are part of about 300 soldiers from the Bear Brigade - a Russian private military ...

Al Qaeda Branch Says It Killed 300 Fighters, Not Civilians, in Burkina Faso Attack By David Lewis ... by the militants and released on social media showed dozens of bodies in trenches, most ...

An attack about 80 miles north of Burkina Faso's capital on August 24 is one ... Several videos apparently released by the militants on social media and verified by Reuters showed more than ...

Residents believed JNIM fighters had deployed the weapon, which are inherently indiscriminate and banned under the Mine Ban Treaty, which Burkina Faso ratified in 1998. "I was home in Boukouma at ...