The extreme violence of so-called Islamic State in Mozambique, known locally as al-Shabab, has forced roughly a million people from their homes, killed an estimated 4,000 civilians, and stunted ...

The policy reversal comes as Britain agrees to hand over control of the Indian Ocean archipelago to Mauritius.

Cissy Houston, the two-time Grammy-winning singer and mother of Whitney Houston, died Monday while in hospice care for Alzheimer’s disease. She was 91. An award-winning recording artist, Houston led a ...

Uganda is close to achieving something no free country in peacetime has managed in the modern era. In under three months on ...

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When U.S. inflation-adjusted military spending fell by one-third in the 1990s, the U.S. share of global military spending only fell by six percentage points because other countries, particularly ...