Troops in northern Cameroon set out Friday for a fresh push against Boko Haram militants, a week after the terror group carried out its deadliest attack in Niger in more than a year....
Niger says hundreds of Boko Haram extremists attacked a military outpost late Friday, killing at least 32 soldiers and wounding nearly 70 others near its southern borders with Nigeria and Chad. The Niger...
The Nigerian military has launched a military offensive aimed at putting pressure on the Islamist militant group Boko Haram as well as rescue unarmed civilians kidnapped by the militants, according to military spokesman...
Members of the Bring Back Our Girls movement gathered Thursday at Unity Fountain in Nigeria’s capital of Abuja amid a heavy police presence. It has been two years since Boko Haram grabbed...
The militaries of Cameroon and Nigeria have freed hundreds of hostages held by Boko Haram, including dozens of girls and women either forcefully married or held as sex slaves. The captives were freed after...
YAOUNDE Two Cameroonian hostages who managed to escape from Boko Haram captivity in Nigeria have returned to Cameroon. They say the insurgent group used them and hundreds of others in a camp to loot...
LAGOS, NIGERIA Suspected Boko Haram fighters attacked a village in Nigeria’s volatile northeast over the weekend, burning huts and detonating a suicide bomb. An emergency services spokesman says around 40 people are dead. The...
