The Nigerian military has provided conflicting reports in the aftermath of a Boko Haram attack that the Associated Press reported resulted in 83 soldiers missing in action, offering national media significantly lower figures or refusing to publicize an official number.
The Nigerian government initially confirmed, but later denied, that 21 schoolgirls who were kidnapped by the Islamic State branch Boko Haram from Chibok, Nigeria, were recently released in a prisoner swap for four imprisoned high-ranking jihadis.
As Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign unfolded, she ultimately showed herself to be “vulnerable” on the subject of human rights due to the Clinton Foundation’s fundraising practices of accepting contributions from countries that condoned the abuse of women and children.
About 100 schoolgirls are unwilling to go home after being kidnapped more than two years ago in Nigeria by the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL)-linked jihadist group Boko Haram. Officials say the girls may have been radicalized, according to news reports.
Former President Bill Clinton, in a private fundraiser speech last year made public by Wikileaks earlier this week, told his wife’s donors that their family foundation has tried to “to save the lives of children” in Nigerian territory held by jihadist group Boko Haram.
The Islamic State-affiliated terrorist group Boko Haram has released 21 schoolgirls abducted from the northern town of Chibok in 2014, the first time any of the girls kidnapped in that particular episode have been released, rather than independently escaped.
After the latest spate of abductions and killings of clergy by Muslims, Nigerian Church officials are wondering aloud whether priests are becoming an “endangered species” in the African country.
Women and girls in a Nigeria-based camp for people who have been displaced by the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) wing known as Boko Haram are trading sex for food, reports Reuters.
The leader of the Nigeria-based Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) wing Boko Haram is reportedly featured in a video recently posted on social media denying claims by the Nigerian military that he had been seriously wounded and warning, “you have not seen the worst yet.”
The British government’s focus on “fire-fighting” the threat posed by Islamic State in Syria and Iraq risks allowing other jihadist groups to spring up in the region and beyond, MPs have warned.
The Nigerian military has dismissed a Boko Haram video threatening to abduct and behead President Muhammadu Buhari as a “photoshop” and “complete joke,” claiming that Boko Haram no longer has the capacity for large-scale attacks and is merely trying to intimidate villagers into a distorted perception of their strength.
The Boko Haram faction loyal to leader Abubakar Shekau has released a video warning “infidel” Nigerian president Muhammadu Buhari that the Islamic State affiliate is seeking to abduct and behead him.
Boko Haram is at war with itself. Reports are surfacing from Nigeria’s remote northeast that rival factions of the Islamic State affiliate, one loyal to longtime leader Abubakar Shekau and another loyal to newly-minted leader Abu Musab al-Barnawi, have begun engaging in fatal clashes in rural areas.
Hillary Clinton’s refusal to prosecute Boko Haram as an official terrorist group has had disastrous consequences on the region, according to Reuters.
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari may have declared that the war against Boko Haram was “over” in December, but the nation continues to struggle against the Islamic State affiliate’s influence in the region.
Bishop Kirill, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, has decried the “shocking” persecution of Christians in some African countries, who are being “simply swept away by radical Islamists.” After meeting Monday with the Ambassador of the Democratic Republic of Congo,
Nigeria is walking back its claim that Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau was killed in an airstrike last week. Shekau is now described as “wounded.”
The Nigerian military has announced yet again that Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau is “fatally wounded” after a targeted airstrike in the country’s Northeast.
The Boko Haram wing of the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) has reportedly executed 10 people and abducted 13 others, including women and children, during a raid on a village near the town of Chibok in northeastern Nigeria’s Borno state, where the African terrorist group kidnapped nearly 276 schoolgirls more than two years ago.
Nigerian terrorist group Boko Haram, an affiliate of the Islamic State, has released a video showing some of the schoolgirls kidnapped from the village of Chibok in April 2014. The terrorists are demanding the release of fighters imprisoned by the Nigerian government in exchange for the girls.
Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau has released audio denying that Abu Musab al-Barnawi – whom the Islamic State has identified as the “governor” of Boko Haram territory – has deposed him as head of the terrorist group.
The people of northeast Nigeria are about as tough as they come. Their remote region is ground zero for many of the world’s most vexing problems, including an Islamic militant insurgency, crippling poverty, and the devastation wrought by climate change.
The Nigerian army reportedly claims to have completely eliminated the Boko Haram branch of the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) in its stronghold of northeastern Nigeria.
This Islamic State released a video Wednesday touting the successes of its African affiliate, Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), the terror group more popularly known as Boko Haram. The jihadists in the video vow to enslave the entire continent, beginning with the conquest of Niger.
A bodyguard to Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has been arrested for allegedly having ties to a senior member of the Islamic State-affiliated terrorist group Boko Haram.
The latest casualties of Boko Haram’s reign of jihadist terror are the nearly 200 refugees who have starved to death over the past month in Bama, Nigeria, with hundreds more—mostly children—suffering from acute malnutrition.
Boko Haram – one of 34 ISIS affiliates and among the world’s deadliest terror groups – in 2014 notoriously kidnapped more than 200 school girls in Chibok, Nigeria. The administration responded with a memorable Twitter campaign featuring First Lady Michelle Obama holding a placard with the
The Christian mother of one of the estimated 218 Chibok schoolgirls who remain in the clutches of the jihadist group Boko Haram after being kidnapped from Nigeria’s Borno state more than two years ago told Breitbart News Saturday that her faith in God has helped and consoled her through the ongoing ordeal.
Nigeria may claim to have “won the war” against the Islamic State-affiliated terror organization Boko Haram, but for neighboring Chad and Niger, the battle rages on.
Taliban jihadists replaced their Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) counterparts as the world’s chief perpetrators of terrorism attacks last year, with 1,093 individual attacks, according to the U.S. Department of State’s Country Reports on Terrorism 2015.
A woman local reports have identified only as Bridget was beheaded by an angry Muslim mob in a busy market in Nigeria’s Kano state Thursday after she allegedly blasphemed against Muhammad during a dispute with a customer.
After months of relying on child and female suicide bombers to continue to wage jihad in northeast Nigeria, Boko Haram has conducted a series of raids of five communities in Borno state, the home of the movement, leaving at least 13 dead and razing their homes to the ground.
The Nigerian army claims to have killed the top bomb-maker for Boko Haram — and not a moment too soon, as the ISIS-affiliated terrorist gang has taken to using kidnapped and drugged women as suicide bombers.
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As ongoing operations have left the Islamic State-affiliated terror group Boko Haram significantly depleted of ammunition and members, the group is now offering business loans to poor Nigerians in exchange for spying on local soldiers, conversion to Islam, or joining the Boko Haram jihad entirely.
The Nigerian army issued a press release on Wednesday announcing that it had rescued 11,595 civilians held hostage by the Islamic State-affiliated terrorist organization Boko Haram and asserting once again that the group is close to total defeat.
The Nigerian military has announced a successful operation to disable four Boko Haram female suicide bombers, in which soldiers were forced to disarm and arrest two other women, one holding a baby.
Thousands of African girls and women who have managed to escape the clutches of the Nigeria-based jihadist group Boko Haram are stigmatized by their communities upon their return.
The persistence of the Boko Haram terrorist group in Nigeria and neighboring countries is fueled by an alarming lack of organization and distrust among intelligence officials, keeping essential information from getting to those who need it in time.
The four African countries bordering Lake Chad currently combating the Nigeria-based jihadist group Boko Haram will receive $40 million in humanitarian assistance from the United States, according to Samantha Power, the American ambassador to the United Nations.
