Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) leader Nasser al-Wuhayshi has been killed in a US air strike in Yemen, the Islamist group has confirmed.
At least 15 people have been killed and dozens more injured and taken hostage after militants from the Islamist militant group al-Shabab stormed a university in eastern Kenya.
The leader of Somali Islamist militant group al-Shabab, Ahmed Abdi Godane, has been killed in a US air strike.
Thousands of families have been forced to flee from Iraq’s second city of Mosul after al-Qaeda-affiliated jihadists gained control of the northern city.
The US has sent a team of “experts” to help Nigeria safely recover more than 200 schoolgirls that were abducted last month by the Islamist militant group Boko Haram.