The expression Black Hawk Down, the title of a Hollywood film, has become shorthand for a 1993 US military disaster in ...

Forces from Somalia's semi-autonomous Puntland region have captured swathes of territory from Islamic State during a ...

The army and the paramilitary forces are locked in a new and ruinous battle for territory across the northeast African nation ...

This is not exclusive to the Middle East – “map wars” are underway across the globe. Some of the more well-known examples ...

That has irked Turkey, which supported the rebels now controlling Syria. Turkey considers the SDF to be an offshoot of the ...