Boko Haram

Boko Haram released a new video on Monday claiming to show the missing Nigerian schoolgirls, alleging they had converted to…

Boko Haram on Monday claimed the abduction of hundreds of schoolgirls in northern Nigeria that has triggered international outrage, threatening…

Twin blasts at a packed bus station in Nigeria's capital killed "dozens of people" on Monday, a spokesman for the…

Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan on Thursday replaced the chiefs of defence, army, navy and air force, a presidency statement said,…

Nigeria's military said on Tuesday it had killed at least 50 Islamist rebels fleeing towards Cameroon in a battle in…

The State Department will formally designate the Nigerian Islamist militant group Boko Haram as a "foreign terrorist organisation" on Wednesday,…

The leader of militant Islamist sect Boko Haram, Abubakar Shekau, may have died of gunshot wounds some weeks after a…

In an unprecedented move, the United States on Monday posted up to $23 million in rewards to help track down…

ABUJA ­— Nigeria's government is reaching out to radical Islamist sect Boko Haram, talking with some of its members via…

ABUJA — Gunmen killed three people in an attack on a mosque in the Nigerian town of Okene on Tuesday,…