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In the past week, Halima Aden's face has been everywhere, from newspapers to magazines to television here and abroad. But Aden, 19, is fitting in time to be a normal teenage girl between interviews and video shoots, arriving to the Times offices having just...

By Dan Lamothe President-elect Donald Trump said Thursday he has chosen retired Marine Gen. James N. Mattis, who has said that responding to “political Islam” is the major security issue facing the United States, to be secretary of defense. “We are going to appoint Mad Dog...

A new study by the London-based Conflict Armament Research (CAR) puts the record straight on the role of Iran in arming non-state actors in Yemen. The findings presented in the study, titled Maritime Interdictions of Weapons Supplies to Somalia and Yemen: Deciphering a link to...

By Michael J. Coren Twitter has been fighting hate speech for years. Now, it faces what may be the world’s most powerful troll: the president of the United States. President-elect Donald Trump used Twitter for the past 18 months as a megaphone for his views and...

Kenya - First aid is quickly given to an unconscious woman lying on the floor. The room is dark. Even though she cannot see clearly, the nurse can tell that all is not well by the state of the room. The woman on the...

Guest host Esther Githui-Ewart explores U.S. President Obama's legacy in Africa with Ambassador Robin Renee Sanders, C.E.O. of FEEDS, Ngozi Bell, Advocate for U.S. Small Business Administration and Kwaku Nuamah who is a political analyst and professor at American University. SOURCE:VOA

The car-and-knife attack at Ohio State University by an immigrant student places a fresh spotlight on the large Somali community in the US, which has seen a number of youth enlist in jihadist causes. Investigations are ongoing into Monday's attack, in which Somali student Abdul...

For anyone who might like to see Michelle Obama run for president as a Democrat, it's time to rein in that early enthusiasm. Or so says her husband, President Barack Obama. "Michelle will never run for office," the president said in an interview with Rolling...

President Barack Obama has expanded the power of the elite Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) to track, plan, and potentially kill terrorists across the globe in places beyond the traditional war zones of Iraq, Syria, and Libya, The Washington Post (WaPo) has learned. The move...

A plane carrying 81 people, including a top Brazilian football team, has crashed on its approach to the city of Medellin in Colombia. Police say five people survived the crash but the rest of those on board died. The chartered aircraft, flying from Brazil via Bolivia,...