Saudi Arabia on Thursday beheaded an Indian axe murderer and a Pakistani heroin trafficker, bringing to 34 the number of death sentences carried out this year.

“Jihadi John”, the masked Islamic State militant apparently responsible for beheading Western hostages, was named on Thursday as Kuwaiti-born London computer programmer Mohammed Emwazi.

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A twin suicide attack this week at a bus station in Nigeria’s Kano city killed 34 people, a union official said Thursday, giving an updated toll after police said 10 people died.

A suicide bomber blew himself up at a crowded bus station in Biu, in Borno state, on Thursday, while a second bomber was shot dead before he could detonate his explosives, witnesses told AFP.

Aftermath of the successes recorded by troops of the Nigerian military in the battle to dislodge hundreds of Boko Haram terrorists from swaths of Adamawa State communities, President Goodluck Jonathan Thursday paid a surprise visit to Mubi and Vimtim with a view to boosting the moral of the troops and assuring them that the federal government was fully behind appreciative of their gallantry.

The US-led coalition carried out air strikes Thursday against the Islamic State group in northeastern Syria, where the jihadists have launched a new offensive and kidnapped 220 Assyrian Christians.

The United States staged a military ceremony Thursday to end its five-month Ebola mission in Liberia, with the west African nation in recovery from the worst-ever outbreak of the virus. A force that at one point reached 2,800 has been gradually scaled back since the epidemic began to recede, and the Pentagon has announced that “nearly all” troops will be gone by the end of April.

“We will give them adequate modern arms and ammunition, we will improve intelligence gathering… we will be tough on terrorists and tough on its root causes… in the affected areas.”b”No inch of Nigerian territory will ever be in the hands of the enemy,” – Buhari

A German hospital nurse was sentenced to life in prison Thursday for murdering two patients who were victims of a suspected wider killing spree that he says claimed 30 lives. The 38-year-old man, identified only as Niels H., has admitted to injecting his patients with lethal drug doses in a bid to try to revive them and shine as a saviour before his medical peers.