Gunmen kill nearly 200 in Nigeria's Kwara and Katsina attacksNigeria attacks: It was the deadliest assault recorded this year in the district bordering Niger state, an area increasingly targeted by gu...
04 Feb, 2026, 10.59 PM IST
Nigeria averts unilateral US action by cooperating on airstrikeNigeria's government confirmed its cooperation with the U.S. on a Christmas Day airstrike against Islamic State militants in northwest Nige...
27 Dec, 2025, 06.33 AM IST
US strikes ISIS in Nigeria: Who ordered them, why they happened, and how weeks of warnings turned into actionThe United States conducted airstrikes against Islamic State-linked militants in northwestern Nigeria, a rare direct military action. This ...
26 Dec, 2025, 06.18 PM IST
Trump says US struck Islamic State targets in Nigeria after group targeted ChristiansLast month, Trump said he had ordered the Pentagon to begin planning for potential military action in Nigeria following the claims of Chris...
26 Dec, 2025, 08.43 AM IST
Explained: Chad's strategic interest to France, Western alliesChad's longtime ruler President Idriss Deby's death, which Paris described as the loss of a courageous friend who had sought peace and stab...
21 Apr, 2021, 02.45 PM IST
Gunmen storm Nigerian school, kidnap studentsMilitant Islamist group Boko Haram and a branch of Islamic State are active in northern Nigeria, but kidnappings by other armed groups - mo...
17 Feb, 2021, 04.52 PM IST
Boko Haram militants kill 92 Chadian soldiers: PresidentThe 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...
25 Mar, 2020, 01.35 PM IST
UK parliamentary group warns ISIS may spread to AsiaThe House of Commons Defence Select Committee warned that the terrorist group, like Al Qaeda before it, could transform into an internation...
21 Sep, 2016, 09.02 PM IST
'Boko Haram cluster bombs' may come from Nigerian military: CampaignersThe insurgents, allied to the Islamic State group in Syria and Iraq, have in recent months increasingly used suicide and bomb attacks.
13 Oct, 2015, 05.39 PM IST
Boko Haram may have committed war crimes: UN rights chiefThe 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...
01 Apr, 2015, 08.12 PM IST
Pakistan kills 34 militants in air strikes: Military"In precise aerial strikes in Tirah, Khyber region, 34 terrorists were killed today," the military said in a statement.
18 Mar, 2015, 04.26 PM IST
UNHCR concerned over refugees' return to violence-hit NigeriaUN expressed concern over the return of hundreds of refugees to Nigeria from Niger, saying authorities in the two countries should stop the...
16 Jan, 2015, 07.46 PM IST
Boko Haram attacks force over 11,000 flee Nigeria in 10 daysThe 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...
13 Jan, 2015, 10.38 PM IST
Possible worst-case scenarios, based on current global conflicts in 2015Skirmishes in the South China Sea lead to full-scale naval confrontation. Israel bombs Iran, setting off an escalation of violence across t...
29 Dec, 2014, 04.00 AM IST
US not considering sending Special Forces to Nigeria: White HouseThe US at this point of time is not actively considering sending Special Forces to Nigeria , the White House said today in a statement.
14 May, 2014, 11.04 PM IST
Nigeria 'willing to talk' to Boko Haram over missing girlsBoko Haram kidnapped 276 schoolgirls from the remote northeastern town of Chibok in Borno state on April 14 and 223 are still being held.
14 May, 2014, 01.23 PM IST
US flying 'manned missions' to seek abducted Nigeria girlsManned US aircraft were flying over Nigeria, searching for over 200 schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram after Abuja dismissed a prisoner-swa...
13 May, 2014, 04.52 PM IST