STORY: Following one of the deadliest attacks in nearly a decade of Islamist violence in Burkina Faso, a number of videos filmed by al Qaeda-affiliated militants emerged on social media. Reuters' ...

ABUJA, Nigeria -- At least 100 villagers and soldiers were killed in central Burkina Faso during a weekend attack on a village by al-Qaida-linked jihadis, according to videos of the violence analyzed ...

Burkina Faso said this month it had foiled an assassination attempt on military leader Captain Ibrahim Traore, but analysts - ...

DAKAR, July 25 (Reuters) - Burkina Faso's army has condemned videos shared on social media this week showing people presenting themselves as soldiers and army auxiliaries mutilating corpses. The trend ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Burkina Faso has released 11 personnel of the Nigerian Air Force who were detained December 8 after their aircraft made an ...

Videos that surfaced in June 2025 accurately reported that White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told Burkina Faso President Capt. Ibrahim Traoré to "sit down, boy." Rating: Fake (About this ...

Security Minister Mahamoudou Sana announced on national television that intelligence services thwarted a sophisticated "destabilization attempt" scheduled for January 3, 2026.

A plot to kill Burkina Faso's president, Ibrahim Traoré, and disable a drone base, ahead of a planned foreign military intervention, was thwarted by security forces, while Burkinabes took to the ...