DAKAR, Senegal – Nigeria has been rocked by two mass kidnappings in the past week, with the United Nations, government officials and local residents saying that hundreds of women and children were ...

Officials from Ukraine and Russia began a second round of U.S.-brokered peace discussions this week in Abu Dhabi, resuming a diplomatic process that has so far produced no formal agreements. The talks ...

Armed men have kidnapped 26 people including a pastor and a bride in two separate raids in Nigeria, the latest in a string of mass abductions to rock the west African country. A gang of criminals ...