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A Somali soldier patrols a street following a suicide car bomb and gun attack.
Books
The death of a Navy SEAL reveals US mission creep in Somalia
A police cadet injured during the attack on the Police Training Center lies in bed in a hospital in Quetta, Pakistan.
Conflict
Attackers kill dozens of sleeping cadets at Pakistani police academy in Quetta
Zara John, 16, holds her baby, with her mother watching in the background.
Conflict
A teen rescued from Boko Haram captivity still pines for her militant husband
Subhi Nahas is a gay refugee from the Syrian city of Idlib.
Conflict
Subhi Nahas never felt safe as a gay man in Syria — and then ISIS took over his hometown
A girl and her mother rescued from Boko Haram in Sambisa Forest by Nigeria's military arrive at a camp for the displaced.
Conflict
An uncertain welcome awaits hundreds of Nigerian women and girls freed from Boko Haram captivity
A woman holding a rose prays during a Nairobi memorial vigil following an attack by gunmen at Kenya's Garissa University College.
Conflict
Targeting the militants of al-Shabab with airstrikes is easier said than done
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.
Conflict
A grieving British father grapples with his sons’ decision to fight and die in Syria
An Iraqi Christian boy fleeing the violence in the Iraqi city of Mosul, stands inside the Church in Telkaif, near Mosul.
Conflict & Justice
It’s a lonely Ramadan in Baghdad, but here’s why one mother is staying put