The West African nation of Mali, one of the countries comprising the Sahel region to the south of the Sahara Desert, has been fighting extremists for years. But a coalition of al-Qaeda and ISIS ...

Analysts say Russian mercenaries focus on mineral extraction rather than security in Sahel countries after U.S. and French ...

(Reuters) -At least 30 people were killed in an airstrike in western Niger, two sources told Reuters, the latest casualties in a part of the country hit hard by Islamist militant attacks and ...

Nigeria’s president has replaced top security officials as his government grapples with unabated violence in the conflict-hit ...

Map shows the Levant region (shaded in orange), which is the western part of the overall Fertile Crescent region (shaded in yellow); the study areas in Israel and Crete are in dashed gray boxes.

Vol. 14, No. 2, COLLOQUE PRÉHISTOIRE DU LEVANT II, Processus des changements culturels (1re partie) (1988), pp. 159-167 (9 pages) Upper Pleistocene human fossil and archaeological evidence from the ...