The Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram’s recent pledge of allegiance to ISIS has generated a wave of speculation about its significance. ISIS’s response was to release an audio tape purporting to ...
ABUJA, Nigeria -- Five Boko Haram commanders have been released in exchange for the freedom of 82 Chibok schoolgirls, says a Nigerian government official. The official spoke on condition of anonymity ...
Kano, Nigeria — Boko Haram on Tuesday claimed it was behind the abduction of hundreds of students in northwestern Nigeria, in what appears to be a major expansion of the jihadist group's activities ...
The new leader of Boko Haram is the son of the group’s founder, according to a Boko Haram insider. Abu Musab al-Barnawi is about 25 years old and the second son of Mohammed Yusuf, who founded the ...
After being declared the world’s deadliest terrorist organization in 2015, Boko Haram is a menace in retreat. As a whole, the conflict is on pace to claim about 3,500 lives in 2016, a third the number ...
Elder described militants causing "terror and total panic." — -- An elder in the Nigerian town of Chibok detailed a terrifying account of what happened as ...
The radical militant group Boko Haram has already used four times as many child suicide bombers in northeast Nigeria this year than it did in 2016, the United Nations Children's Fund reported Tuesday.
The Islamist terror group Boko Haram kidnapped at least 97 men and boys and killed 28 people this week in a raid on villages in Borno State in northeast Nigeria, a ...
The U.N. report said Boko Haram regularly uses children suicide bombers. — -- A campaign of violence led by terror group Boko Haram in Nigeria and neighboring ...
Boko Haram extremists, who seized a northern garrison town in Nigeria less than a week ago, have reportedly carried out a massacre of its inhabitants, with Amnesty International saying as many as ...
That's the assessment of both U.S. counterterrorism officials and many experts who cover West Africa. After several months of optimism, and military successes by ...
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