WASHINGTON — The general in charge of U.S. Special Operations forces in Africa has ordered U.S. troops under his watch to “plan missions to stay out of direct combat or do not go,” according to two ...

Food had become scarce, medical supplies were running out, and gasoline was being rationed. When heavily armed troops last week encircled government buildings in Maseru, the capital of Lesotho, the ...

As scenes of terrorist carnage unfolded in Vienna and Rome, a spasm of racial violence shattered seasonal hopes of peace and goodwill across South Africa. For the country’s whites, all signs appeared ...