When the BBC team approached a checkpoint set up by the rebel Free Syria Army in the suburbs of Damascus, masked men with Kalashnikov assault rifles and hand...




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The attack by gunmen suspected of being members of Boko Haram led to more than an hour of running gun battles.
Minority government set to prohibit niqabs and burqas and other forms of clothing that cover the face.

French troops will resume training Afghan soldiers on Saturday but Paris will pull out most of its troops from the country by...
A host of international authors - including seven Nobel laureates - have called for an end to attacks on journalists in Mexico.
