The Jama’atu Nastril Islam, JNI, led by the Sultan of Sokoto, Mohammed Sa’ad Abubakar III, has expressed angst over the high ...

Pope LEO XIV has joined with the State Department to condemn the killing of yet more Christians by Islamist militants in ...

A significant number of Boko Haram fighters and their family members have surrendered to troops of the Multinational Joint ...

Girls and young women freed from Boko Haram terrorists in northeast Nigeria continue to suffer severe hardships, including unlawful military detention, neglect, and inadequate support to start ...

A post on Facebook claims that Tukur Buratai, Nigeria’s former chief of army staff, escaped an attack by Boko Haram in early ...

Nigerian soldiers hold up a Boko Haram flag they had seized in the retaken town of Damasak, Nigeria, on March 18, 2015. Emmanuel Braun/Reuters ...

Boko Haram has abducted more than 1,000 children in northeast Nigeria since 2013, the United Nations' children's agency announced Friday.. The number of children kidnapped by the Nigerian ...

Boko Haram, Nigeria’s homegrown jihadis, took up arms in 2009 to fight Western education and impose their radical version of Islamic law. The conflict, now Africa’s longest struggle with ...

— -- More than two years after their abduction, 21 of the missing Chibok schoolgirls have been released by Boko Haram in northern Nigeria, a government spokesman said Thursday. “The release ...

An aerial view shows part of Gwoza—a town in northeast Nigeria seized by Boko Haram in July 2014 but retaken by Nigerian troops in March 2015—in northeastern Nigeria, on August 1.

Boko Haram, Nigeria’s homegrown jihadis, took up arms in 2009 to fight Western education and impose their radical version of Islamic law. The conflict has spilled into Nigeria’s northern ...