Boko Haram

DOUALA, Cameroon - Suspected Boko Haram militants sprayed a village in remote Cameroon with automatic fire, killing 15 people and kidnapping eight others in an overnight raid near…

MAIDUGURI - His broken arm is in a bamboo splint, his torso pock-marked with shrapnel and his jaw wired together by a Nigerian army surgeon.

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria - Islamist insurgency Boko Haram has claimed responsibility for the attack on Nigeria's northeastern city of Maiduguri on Wednesday night that killed at least 14 people,…

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria - Suspected Boko Haram fighters attacked the city of Maiduguri in northeast Nigeria on Wednesday, the Islamist militant group's most serious assault on the regional capital…

ABUJA/MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - Boko Haram militants have released 82 schoolgirls out of a group of more than 200 whom they kidnapped from the northeastern town of Chibok…

N'DJAMENA - Boko Haram militants killed nine Chadian soldiers in an attack on a military camp on Friday in the north of the Central African country close to…

CHIBOK, Nigeria/DAKAR - Nigeria is facing mounting pressure to find some 200 schoolgirls abducted 1,000 days ago in Boko Haram's most infamous attack after the rescue of 24…

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria - A man purporting to be the leader of Nigerian Islamist militant group Boko Haram, Abubakar Shekau, denied the jihadist group has been pushed out of…

KANO - The leader of the jihadist group Boko Haram has reacted to the election of Donald Trump to the White House with a warning that "the war…

LAGOS - Human Rights Watch on Monday accused Nigerian officials of sexually exploiting women and girls living in camps for victims of Boko Haram in the restive northeast.