The release of captives came after the army launched a successful offensive against the positions of armed militants in the Boucle du Mouhoun region of Burkina Faso. The hostages were kept in a ...

Following his emergence in 2022 as the head of the military junta in Burkina Faso, Ibrahim Traore and his government have ...

Burkina Faso’s military junta arrested three journalists on March 24, 2025 for reporting on the government crackdown on the ...

Since 2015, Burkina Faso has been plagued by jihadist violence from groups linked to the Islamic State group or Al-Qaeda. In the latest attack, a security source in Tapoa province said an army ...

At least 223 civilians, among them 56 children, were executed by the Burkina ... strike on a military base near Ouahigouya, just 25 kilometers (15 miles) away. A representative of the Burkina Faso ...

The West African nation, along with neighbors Burkina Faso and Niger, has for more than a decade battled an insurgency fought by armed groups, including some allied with al-Qaida and the Islamic State ...

TASS/. Leaders of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger, which all are members of the Sahel Alliance, decided to take their defense and security forces to the highest alert, says the joint statement of the ...

Four political activists in Burkina Faso, belonging to a political movement denouncing civilian massacres blamed on the army ...

Burkina Faso has been plagued by Islamist attacks in ... parliament that the new battalions would bring the number of army rapid response forces in the country to 28 and police mobile units ...