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The kidnapping of nearly 300 girls in Nigeria by terrorist group Boko Haram in April is not the first time militants have held children ransom. A number of the girls have been held captive by the ...

Nine people were killed and four injured in a Boko Haram attack on Malam Fatori, Borno State, Nigeria. The community, near ...

Boko Haram kidnapped nearly 300 girls from the school in April 2014. A Nigerian soldier stands in front of the remains of the Government Girls Secondary School Chibok in Borno state, Nigeria ...

Islamic extremists have killed nine people and injured four in northeastern Nigeria's Borno state, authorities report.

A number of solid journalistic accounts of the rise of Boko Haram have appeared in recent years, but Thurston’s scholarly work stands out and deserves a wide readership. It offers an authoritative ...

On the night of June 21, a woman detonated an improvised explosive device (IED) in a crowd of people at a fish market in ...

Boko Haram is not known to have any formal connections to al Qaeda and, more specifically, its Yemen-based affiliate AQAP, which claimed responsibility for the latest attacks in Paris.

Boko Haram is supposed to be almost finished. The Nigerian military has been battling the Islamist insurgents for years, with the help of neighbors. It recently purchased $593 million worth of ...

These two exceptional books offer significant new insights into the rise of jihadist violence in Africa. MacEachern situates Boko Haram, the Islamic State affiliate based in Nigeria, in the history of ...

A video from October shows Abubakar Shekau, the leader of Nigerian Islamist extremist group Boko Haram. Getty Images YOLA, Nigeria — Hundreds of bodies — too many to count — remain strewn in ...

Boko Haram is feeding off of and fueling Nigeria’s history of religious related violence, adding momentum to an already vicious cycle. The United States needs to press its ally to do more, ...