Nigeria attacks: It was the deadliest assault recorded this year in the district bordering Niger state, an area increasingly targeted by gu...

Nigeria's government confirmed its cooperation with the U.S. on a Christmas Day airstrike against Islamic State militants in northwest Nige...

The United States conducted airstrikes against Islamic State-linked militants in northwestern Nigeria, a rare direct military action. This ...

Last month, Trump said he had ordered the Pentagon to begin planning for potential military action in Nigeria following the claims of Chris...

Chad's longtime ruler President Idriss Deby's death, which Paris described as the loss of a courageous friend who had sought peace and stab...

Militant Islamist group Boko Haram and a branch of Islamic State are active in northern Nigeria, but kidnappings by other armed groups - mo...

The soldiers were attacked on Monday on the island village of Boma in the swampy Lake Chad zone in the west of the country, where the armie...

The House of Commons Defence Select Committee warned that the terrorist group, like Al Qaeda before it, could transform into an internation...

The insurgents, allied to the Islamic State group in Syria and Iraq, have in recent months increasingly used suicide and bomb attacks.

The group has also repeatedly used young children as human bombs, including a case of a 14-year-old carrying a baby on her back who detonat...

"In precise aerial strikes in Tirah, Khyber region, 34 terrorists were killed today," the military said in a statement.

UN expressed concern over the return of hundreds of refugees to Nigeria from Niger, saying authorities in the two countries should stop the...

The Islamist group attacked the town of Baga on January 3, and razed it and at least 16 surrounding settlements, feared to be the worst mas...

Skirmishes in the South China Sea lead to full-scale naval confrontation. Israel bombs Iran, setting off an escalation of violence across t...

The US at this point of time is not actively considering sending Special Forces to Nigeria , the White House said today in a statement.

Boko Haram kidnapped 276 schoolgirls from the remote northeastern town of Chibok in Borno state on April 14 and 223 are still being held.

Manned US aircraft were flying over Nigeria, searching for over 200 schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram after Abuja dismissed a prisoner-swa...