Nigeria anticipates further strikes against jihadist groups. This follows a Christmas Day bombardment by US forces in the north, described ...

Nigerians across Sokoto state awoke to loud blasts Thursday night, worried their village was being attacked by one of the multiple armed gr...

Nigeria faces mounting security fears after a second mass school abduction. Over 300 students and teachers were taken from St Mary's school...

Nigeria has apprehended four Pakistani nationals accused of training and arming Boko Haram terrorists. The presence of foreign mercenaries ...

Russian mercenaries from the Wagner group launched a raid in Mali's Wela village targeting a woman suspected of aiding jihadists. Women in ...

More than 100 Afghan civilians and 13 US servicemen were killed in the August 26 attack on Kabul airport -- the deadliest violence against ...

Heavily-armed bandits have wracked northwest and central Nigeria for years, but the groups have recently stepped up attacks on schools, kid...

Jihadists from Boko Haram and a rival splinter group, the Islamic State West Africa Province, have been using the region for years as a hav...

The "prompt and vigorous reaction" by the Defense and Security Forces (FDS), "made it possible to repel the attack and inflict heavy losses...

Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) is now targeting Boko Haram's soldiers after raiding Shekau's stronghold in Sambisa forest in Bo...

Machinegun-toting rebels of the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), a breakaway group from Boko Haram, stormed Diffa aboard 15 vehi...

The vast desert area of Tahoua in the west of the country sits close to the borders of both Mali and Burkina Faso and has been plagued by j...

Despite security measures, insurgents have launched repeated assaults on a dozen fortified towns where people had returned. "They're forcin...

President Muhammadu Buhari expressed "overwhelming joy" at their release and called on the security forces to hunt down their abductors, af...

Resident Musa Mustapha said the gunmen also attacked a nearby military camp and checkpoint, preventing soldiers from interfering while the ...

Forty-one people were killed in triple explosions in a Chadian city on the shores of Lake Chad, blamed on the Nigerian jihadist group Boko ...

Abubakr Shekau, leader of the Nigerian terrorist group Boko Haram, had been deposed and replaced by a new leader more open to compromise .