Horn of Africa Lauds Counterterror Success
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Terrorist groups are still operating in the Horn of Africa, but a 2-year-old U.S. task force has built cooperation in the region's anti-terror operations and prevented militants from staging attacks, the unit's commander told The Associated Press.
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Italian military intelligence service SISMI was praised Wednesday for foiling a major car bomb attack on the Italian embassy in Lebanon, local media reported.
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World efforts to cut off al-Qaeda funding is hailed as a success by a top US official.
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THE arrest of four Indonesians accused of carrying out the Australian embassy bombing in Jakarta was a positive breakthrough in the war against terrorism, Labor said today.
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The United States on Tuesday praised the efforts of South African President Thabo Mbeki who, on the behalf of the African Union, has vied to restart the peace process in the Ivory Coast.
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The U.S. ambassador to Iraq and a top military commander there said today that U.S. forces are making progress against al-Qaeda, with successes in the western province of Anbar now being replicated in other volatile parts of the country.
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In Djibouti, US forces combat terrorism with civil affairs work. Will this be a model for a future US military command in Africa?
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United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan Thursday praised the inauguration of Col. Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed as transitional president of Somalia.
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The U.S. military used bases inside  Ethiopia last month in a quiet campaign to capture or kill top  al Qaeda leaders in the Horn of Africa, The New York Times  reported on its Web site on Thursday, citing U.S. officials.
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UN inspectors praise Libya for its co-operation in revealing details of its dismantled atomic weapons programme.
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ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia -- With the Ethiopian government saying it is technically at war with Somalia's Islamic Courts movement, and the movement having declared holy war against Ethiopia, there is fear that an all-out conflict in the Horn of Africa may be unavoidable.
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An all-party security meeting held in Iraq after two days of extreme violence is a success, says the president.
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Looking back on Operation Days of Repentance, the massive incursion into northern Gaza that ended with a troop pullback last weekend, Israel field commanders called the 17-day foray a resounding operational success.
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The first Ugandan peacekeepers arrived in Somalia's capital early Tuesday to provide protection for the still struggling transitional government and to allow for the withdrawal of Ethiopian troops who intervened in the country.
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More than a dozen mortar bombs were fired at Mogadishu's airport on Tuesday shortly after Ugandan soldiers landed there as the vanguard of an African Union peacekeeping force.
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The United States on Thursday announced it had sent a team to assess humanitarian needs in Ethiopia's Ogaden region, where government troops have been battling insurgents since June last year.
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Militant groups including al Qaeda  are exploiting lawless areas in the seven-nation Horn of Africa  region to hide, recruit and train members and possibly plan  attacks, the head of the region's U.S.-led anti-terror force  said Monday.