Nigeria’s military campaign against Boko Haram Islamists is increasingly bogged down as it confronts suicide attacks, looting and indiscriminate slaughter while the UN warns the affected region faces ...

The Lake Chad Basin is witnessing a renewed wave of violence as rival jihadist groups, Boko Haram’s Jama’atu Ahlis Sunna Lidda’awati wal-Jihad, JAS, and the Islamic State West Africa Province, ISWAP, ...

ABUJA — Nigeria’s new National Security Adviser Sambo Dasuki says he is optimistic that a cease-fire between the government and the militant group known as Boko Haram could offer some relief to the ...

The planned rescue of the over 200 school girls abducted in Chibok in April by Boko Haram is on hold for now. The battle by troops to reclaim Bama and Gwoza both in Borno State from the terrorists is ...

About one hundred terrorists have reportedly been killed as Boko Haram fighters engaged in a fierce battle with ISWAP. According to an exclusive report by counter-insurgency expert and security ...

Soldiers and Boko Haram insurgents engaged in a gun battle along the Maiduguri-Damaturu highway in Borno State in the early hours of yesterday. There were however two different accounts of the ...

When Nigeria's military claimed Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau had been badly wounded in an air strike 2016, the jihadist chief soon appeared in a video to deny another of the many reports of his ...

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria — Boko Haram fighters are massing at their headquarters in the northeast Nigerian town of Gwoza in preparation for a showdown with multinational forces, residents and an ...