Africa

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are finally giving conservationists a significant lead in the fight against poachers. Lindbergh Foundation’s Air Shepherd Initiative employs drones to...

More than 2,000 weapons including assault rifles, rocket launchers and machine guns were found hidden under fishing nets in a Somalia-bound boat, Australian Navy...

The United State could soon send hundreds of military advisers to the front line of the raging battle against Islamist terrorist organisation Boko Haram...

More than 200 fighters of the Somali militant group al-Shabab have reportedly defected from the al-Qaida affiliate and established the first coherent Islamic State...

The European has lost its war against the flow of illegal immigrants from Libya. Israeli sources told i-HLS that the "boat line" between Libya...

A United Nations panel on technological development has called for peacekeeping missions to be equipped with unmanned drones to survey conflict zones. Despite the...

Training camps in Mauritania train foreign recruits for ISIS, al-Qaeda Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State (ISIS) could be working together at al-Qaeda-run training camps in...

According to various reports, back in 1990, the South African government at the time extracted the country's inventory of highly enriched uranium from its...

The U.S has blocked any sales of surplus American-made weapon systems by Israel to Nigeria. The Americans also indicated that Israeli made systems should...

South African company Denel has cleared its Seeker-400 UAS (unmanned aerial system) for imminent production this year. The system is being offered in two...

Threats from terrorism will continue to challenge the United States. This, according to U.S. counterterrorism analysts In a recent congressional testimony, James Clapper, Director of...

Nigeria’s Islamist group Boko Haram has declared its allegiance to Islamic State. In a video posted online, Boko Haram’s leader, Abubakar Shekau, in an...

As though anyone still entertained any doubts, Europe’s counterterrorism laws cannot deal with the current situation where terror groups are flooding the continent. This...

This is a threat taken very seriously by Britain. At the height of the Ebola crisis in West Africa last year, British military experts...

An undisclosed country in Africa recently signed a contract with the Israeli authorities to acquire armored vehicles. The deal was just cleared by the...

Egypt is in the midst of a war that can be categorized as a low-intensity conflict. This category represents a common pattern of military...

South Africa wants to use more unmanned air vehicles (UAV) and is preparing the needed regulations. South Africa is set to have its new UAV...

Since the start of the millennium, suicide attacks have become a common mode of operation for many terrorist groups around the world, particularly Sunni...

Nigeria's military says pirates hijacked a military gunboat and three soldiers are missing after the ambush in the southern oil-rich state of Bayelsa. Spokesman Col....

An Australian-run medical center for Ebola patients has opened in Sierra Leone overnight, the foreign affairs minister, Julie Bishop, has announced. Australia’s Foreign affairs minister...

A Belgian scientist who helped discover Ebola in 1976 has accused the World Health Organization (WHO) of mismanaging the current outbreak response. Peter Piot, an...

British health charity The Wellcome Trust recently announced that a new 15-minute Ebola virus test will become available on a trial basis in Guinea...