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A Somali soldier patrols a street following a suicide car bomb and gun attack.

The death of a Navy SEAL reveals US mission creep in Somalia

Books

A longtime Africa correspondent looks behind the headlines in Somalia and talks about his new memoir.

A police cadet injured during the attack on the Police Training Center lies in bed in a hospital in Quetta, Pakistan.

Attackers kill dozens of sleeping cadets at Pakistani police academy in Quetta

Conflict
Zara John, 16, holds her baby, with her mother watching in the background.

A teen rescued from Boko Haram captivity still pines for her militant husband

Conflict
Subhi Nahas is a gay refugee from the Syrian city of Idlib.

Subhi Nahas never felt safe as a gay man in Syria — and then ISIS took over his hometown

Conflict
A girl and her mother rescued from Boko Haram in Sambisa Forest by Nigeria's military arrive at a camp for the displaced.

An uncertain welcome awaits hundreds of Nigerian women and girls freed from Boko Haram captivity

Conflict
A woman holding a rose prays during a Nairobi memorial vigil following an attack by gunmen at Kenya's Garissa University College.

Targeting the militants of al-Shabab with airstrikes is easier said than done

Conflict

Here’s why the ragtag al-Shabab fighters are so hard to vanquish

A fighter from the Islamist Syrian rebel group Jabhat al-Nusra, the official Syrian branch of al-Qaeda. The group is a powerful militia in the Syrian civil war and has battled with ISIS, but is a State Department-listed terrorist group.

A grieving British father grapples with his sons’ decision to fight and die in Syria

Conflict

Abubaker Deghayes, a British property manager, is mourning the death of a second son who has died fighting in Syria with the extremist group Jabhat al-Nusra. Deghayes says Western governments must do more to reach out to youth who are tempted to enlist in jihadi groups.

An Iraqi Christian boy fleeing the violence in the Iraqi city of Mosul, stands inside the Church in Telkaif, near Mosul.

It’s a lonely Ramadan in Baghdad, but here’s why one mother is staying put

Conflict & Justice

Baghdad is an increasingly frightening place to raise a family, so many middle class parents have sent their children out of the country. As journalist Sahar Issa explains, the loneliness of the parents left behind is especially painful at Ramadan.
Baghdad is an increasingly frightening place to raise a family, so many middle class parents have sent their children out of the country. As journalist Sahar Issa explains, the loneliness of the parents left behind is especially painful at Ramadan.