A US Catholic nun who was kidnapped by armed men in April in Burkina Faso has been freed, the bishop of the local north-east diocese of Kaya has said. "Sister Suellen is currently in a safe place and in good health," Bishop Theophile Nare said in a statement. Suellen Tennyson, 83, was taken hostage»»»

Bamako, Mali: A Romanian citizen who was abducted in northeast Burkina Faso in 2015 where he was working at a mine, was released Wednesday, Romania's foreign ministry said. Iulian Ghergut, who was 39 years old when a militant group linked to al-Qaida captured him at a mine where he was working as a»»»

Armed men kidnapped an Italian couple and their son in southern overnight, their church said on Friday, as violence spreads in a country ravaged by an extremist insurgency. A spokesman for the Jehovah's Witnesses church in neighbouring Senegal said the couple is in their 70s and their son is about »»»

NNA - A priest missing since Tuesday in Burkina Faso’s jihadist-plagued southwest has been found dead, security and local sources said Thursday. “The priest’s lifeless body was found in the Toumousseni Forest” in the Cascades region bordering Ivory Coast and Mali, a security source said. A local po»»»

On January 28, several of the girls who were abducted by Boko Haram in 2014 managed to escape from their captors. In April 2014, 276 girls were abducted from a school in the city of Chibok, in the northeastern state of Borno, by the jihadist group Boko Haram. Of these, 112 were still being held hos»»»

In fighting against global terrorism since 9/11, China and the United States have taken very different policy paths and achieved different results. However, to date, as news of the US global war on terror goes on hitting headlines, the world has somehow become oblivious to China's counterterrorism »»»