The US was the highest military spender in 2021, with 801 billion US dollars dedicated to the military, equivalent to 30% of the total military spending worldwide that year (2.1 trillion US dollars).

Somali forces end a deadly siege by al-Shabab Takfiri militant group at a hotel in the country’s capital which left at least 13 civilian dead.

The US has announced that it has killed the al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri. The timing of his death at this time is somewhat questionable.

The United States says it has killed Ayman al-Zawahiri in a drone strike in Kabul.

US President Joe Biden claims a US drone killed al-Qaeda leader, Ayman al-Zawahiri, in Afghanistan.

According to the latest global terrorism index, there is an increase in terrorist attacks across sub-Saharan Africa amid concern that the region is now becoming the center of operations by armed groups affiliated to Daesh and al-Qaeda terrorist groups.

Saudi warplanes have a fresh round of aerial attacks against the Yemeni capital city of Sana’a, targeting several residential neighborhoods.

A protest rally against militant violence has gone wild after police fired tear gas canisters to break up demonstrators.

At least eight people are killed and over a dozen wounded in a car bombing near a school in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, witnesses and officials say.

The spokesman for the Iranian Foreign Ministry says the United States is directly meddling in Cuba’s internal affairs by inciting opposition groups to stage nationwide protests.