HMS Duncan to support safe passage of British-flagged ships through Strait of Hormuz, says UK Defense Ministry A second U.K. navy vessel arrived in the Persian Gulf to escort commercial ships through the Strait of Hormuz after a British oil tanker was seized by Tehran last week, London announced on Sunday. The U.K.’s National Defense

President Donald Trump walks out to speak before signing H.R. 1327, an act ensuring that a victims’ compensation fund related to the Sept. 11 attacks never runs out of money, in the Rose Garden of the White House, Monday, July 29, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) President Donald Trump on Monday signed a bill

The Kenyan government is pursuing a determined campaign, engaging in outlandish and undiplomatic behavior, and targets Somalia so as to pressure Mogadishu to withdraw an International Court of Justice (ICJ) maritime dispute case it filed against the former in 2014. On Feb. 16, 2019, Kenya expelled Somalia’s Ambassador to Kenya Mohamed Mohamoud Nour and recalled

FILE PHOTO: Members of the police head down Banex road during their operation to disperse members of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN) from a street in Abuja, Nigeria July 23, 2019. REUTERS/Afolabi Sotunde Nigeria’s government has banned a Shi’ite Muslim group whose followers have been holding protests to demand the release of their detained

The clock is ticking towards the September 9-13, 2019, tipping point, when the International Court of Justice (ICJ) at The Hague, Netherlands, will decide on the maritime delimitation case filed by Somalia against Kenya on August 28, 2014. Never before in its history has Kenya’s capacity to harness the technologies of soft power to protect

Israel, US carry out successful test of Arrow-3 missile over Alaska. (photo credit: ISRAEL DEFENSE MINISTRY) By Anna Ahronheim Test comes days after Iran tested a medium-range ballistic missile. In face of Iran’s continued development of long-range missiles, Israel and the United States completed a series of tests of the new long-range Arrow-3 ballistic missile

Dr Imaana Laibuta (left) when he appeared for an interview with the Judicial Service Commission in 2016 for the position of Supreme Court judge, When the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) announced the list of 11 nominees for appointment as Court of Appeal judges, Dr Kibaya Imaana Laibuta did not receive any special mention apart from

FILE – In this Tuesday, April 2, 2109 file photo, House Oversight and Reform Committee Chair Elijah Cummings, D-Md., leads a meeting to call for subpoenas after a career official in the White House security office says dozens of people in President Donald Trump’s administration were granted security clearances despite “disqualifying issues” in their backgrounds,

Bags containing the bodies of migrants who died after their wooden boat capsized off the coast of Komas, are seen in the hangar belonging to an anti-illegal migration department in the town east of the capital Tripoli, Libya July 27, 2019. REUTERS/Ayman al-Sahili Fifty-five bodies have been recovered so far off the Libyan coast, an

A United States court has been told of gun trade link between the Akasha family and Al Shabaab terrorist group. US Attorney Geoffrey Berman submitted in court, details of how the Akashas trafficked weapons with members of the terrorist organisation. This was a confession by the drugs empire point man Vijay Goswami who spilled the