Somali al Shabaab militants killed two police officers on Wednesday during a raid on a northeastern Kenyan town that sparked a day-long gunbattle, a police official said, the latest in a spate of militant attacks on Kenyan security services.

Survivors of a 16-hour siege in a Sydney cafe yesterday told of their terror during the deadly standoff, as a jihadist gunman ...

The United States delivered more than $25mn worth of military aid including heavy artillery to the Lebanese army yesterday to help it fight militant groups...