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.
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.
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.”
A Nigerian man is serving jail time, unable to pay his bail, after being arrested for “disturbing the peace” by naming his dog “Buhari” after President Muhammadu Buhari.
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.
Gunmen disguised as priests executed three Nigerian soldiers in the oil-rich Niger Delta, Reuters learned from a military source and residents.
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.
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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.
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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.
A major Nigerian Islamic group has condemned the killing of a 74-year-old pastor’s wife, Bridget Agbahime, at the hands of a Muslim mob that accused her of blasphemy against Muhammad, referring to the incident as a “most unfortunate alleged blasphemy,” not a murder.
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.
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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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LONDON (Reuters) – Prime Minister David Cameron was caught on camera telling Queen Elizabeth on Tuesday that leaders of some “fantastically corrupt” countries, including Nigeria and Afghanistan, were due to attend his anti-corruption summit. Cameron will host an international anti-corruption
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.
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The UK Telegraph fired off a sizzling editorial on Tuesday, accusing recently-elected Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari of misappropriating British foreign aid money that was earmarked for fighting Boko Haram and using it to persecute his political opponents instead.
At least five parents from Chibok, Nigeria, have received calls from their daughters’ phone numbers recently, two years after Boko Haram kidnapped them and more than 200 others from their secondary school.
On the two-year anniversary of the mass abduction of over 200 girls by the jihadist group Boko Haram in northeast Nigeria, CNN has published a video showing 15 of the victims, all wearing Islamic garb and describing themselves as “well.”
The government of Nigeria has claimed for months that the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) affiliate Boko Haram has been defeated. Yet military campaigns continue, and this week, the army began bombing the Sambisa forest, a largely inaccessible plot of land known as the terrorist group’s last hideout.
The government of Nigeria is denying a report in The Telegraph that Boko Haram has offered to return the schoolgirls abducted in April 2014 in exchange for $56 million, noting it is still trying to verify similar reports, as well.
The Nigerian military has issued an offer to Boko Haram jihadists seeking to surrender to hand over their arms and join the nation’s first jihadi rehabilitation camp, where the government hopes to train the former terrorists to work and prepare them to reintegrate into society.