A motorist drives through Mekelle, the capital of Ethiopia’s Tigray Regional Government, on September 26, 2026. Obtained by REUTERS/File Photo Purchase Licensing Rights Pro-government forces have seized back control of Mekelle, the…
Fighting between Ethiopian government forces and rebels has drawn closer to Mekelle, prompting the Tigray People’s Liberation Front to temporarily pull its…
Ethiopian forces close in on Mekelle as Tigray conflict escalates MEKELLE, Ethiopia — Federal Ethiopian troops and allied militias are moving toward…
Ethiopian pro-government forces say they have retaken strategic town in Tigray Ethiopian government troops and allied militiamen have captured Alamata, a strategically…
SNA radio Baidoa (AX) — Fighting erupted in Baidoa before dawn on Monday after forces loyal to former South West State President…
BAIDOA, Somalia — Rival forces aligned with competing political camps clashed in Baidoa on Monday, unleashing heavy gunfire and weapons fire across…
Garowe (AX) — Puntland State maritime forces have freed the US-sanctioned oil tanker Sibu 1 after armed men hijacked it in the…
A fresh showdown between Ethiopia’s federal government and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front is raising fears that the country’s northern region could…
Garowe (AX) — U.S. Africa Command has carried out an airstrike against an al-Shabab warehouse believed to hold conventional weapons in northern…
US lifts sanctions on Eritrean Defense Forces WASHINGTON – The Trump administration has lifted sanctions on the Eritrean Defense Forces and other…
The shuttered Saudi embassy in Yemen’s capital Sana’a, with a mural depicting a Houthi fighter stopping a ship. Photograph: Yahya Arhab/EPA Fighting…
