(BBC) – Chad’s military says it has carried out airstrikes in neighbouring Nigeria on suspected positions of militant Islamist group Boko Haram. The strikes were in...
(BBC) – Chad’s military says it has carried out airstrikes in neighbouring Nigeria on suspected positions of militant Islamist group Boko Haram. The strikes were in...
LAGOS (The Daily Beast) — “I was asked to kill my parents on the day I was captured,” said 16-year-old Babagana, a former Boko Haram...
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — A leading human rights group said Thursday that Nigeria-based Boko Haram had killed more than 1,000 civilians already this year and forced hundreds of...
JAMEY KEATEN, Associated Press PAUL SCHEMM, Associated Press TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — The Islamic State group claimed responsibility Thursday for the attack that killed 21 people...
ZEINA KARAM, Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Islamic State militants have accepted a pledge of allegiance by the Nigerian-grown Boko Haram extremist group, according to a...
(All Africa) – Just a day after launching a joint offensive against the terrorist group Boko Haram in Nigerian territory, Niger and Chadian forces recaptured...
YAOUNDE (VOA News) – Nigerian Muslims who fled to Cameroon to escape Boko Haram say they are being shunned as suspected sympathizers of the insurgent group....
YAOUNDE (VOA News) – Nigerian Muslims who fled to Cameroon to escape Boko Haram say they are being shunned as suspected sympathizers of the insurgent group....
(The Independent) – Isis has sharpened many people’s sense of paranoia towards Islam. The majority of Muslims have a peaceful reading of the Koran, but...
(Salon) – The terrorist attack on Charlie Hebdo by Muslim extremists, motivated by disapproval of the French magazine’s habit of depicting the prophet Mohammed in...
MICHELLE FAUL, Associated Press Boko Haram, Nigeria’s homegrown Islamic extremist group, is increasing the ferocity and tempo of its attacks, destabilizing Africa’s most populous nation as...
ELAINE GANLEY, Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Firebombs and pig heads thrown into mosques. Veiled women subjected to insults in the street. The Internet awash with...
(BBC) – Nigeria’s militant Islamists have carried out a second attack on the key north-eastern town of Baga, an official has told the BBC. Boko Haram...