Lincoln Heights' newest neighborhood watch force consists of masked men with rifles on street corners. People are reporting ...

The advancing tide of Islamist extremism has prompted the rise of pro-government militias. The result has been a vicious ...

I think the police are afraid to do something because they don’t want to cause any problems,” a local business owner told a ...

Democrats in suburban New York are suing a Republican county executive over his creation of an armed unit of volunteer ...

An apparent Islamist armed group attacked a civilian convoy escorted by Malian armed forces and allied militias in northeastern Mali on February 7, 2025, killing at least 34 civilians and injuring 34 ...

NEW YORK — Long Island lawmakers have sued Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman and a local sheriff for a program sanctioning a taxpayer-funded militia of armed civilians shrouded “in secrecy.” The ...

The Trump administration has imposed sanctions on a Rwandan top official and a senior member of an armed group over their ...

Somalia said on Thursday its army and allied clan militias have fought off coordinated raids on villages by the Islamist al Shabaab armed group in the country's south, killing more than 130 attackers.

As the Burkinabe government escalated its armed campaign, indiscriminate killings by the military and its allied militias mounted, leading to more reciprocal killings by the extremists.

Authorities say militia fighters in northeastern Congo have killed at least 55 civilians in an attack on a cluster of ...

A Baloch youth has reportedly been killed by state-supported militias, often referred to as ‘death squads’, in Tump, which is part of Balochistan’s Kech district, on Thursday. According to a report by ...