Official: Nigeria military attacks camps, kills 21
5 days ago
Nigeria's military and security forces have tracked fighters by their mobile phone signals in the past as well, prompting extremists from Boko Haram to attack mobile phone towers in the region...
Nigeria extremists say they kidnap women, children
9 days ago
Police and security forces have not announced any kidnapping cases involving Nigerians taken after Boko Haram attacks, though such abductions could be easily done in the chaos after an assault.
Weapons of war spill blood in Nigeria's insurgency
15 days ago
A propaganda video released in March by Boko Haram, featuring its leader Abubakar Shekau, showed fighters gathered around weapons they said they stole from an attack on an army barracks.
8 killed in northeast Nigeria extremist attack
78 days ago
A security official later told The Associated Press that the Boko Haram gunmen killed seven civilians and a police inspector.
Boko Haram leader denies peace talks with Nigeria
81 days ago
The leader of the radical Islamic terrorist network Boko Haram has denied his group is taking part in any peace talks with Nigeria's government.
Video claims Nigeria sect holds 7 French hostages
86 days ago
However, in this video, the man speaks entirely in Arabic, while other Boko Haram videos have its leader Abubakar Shekau also speaking the Hausa language of Nigeria's predominantly Muslim north.
Health worker killings show north Nigeria dangers
100 days ago
"Boko Haram's connections to militants in northern Mali, the Sahel and elsewhere in the Muslim world enable it to receive and provide support to other Islamist militias," wrote terrorism analyst...
18 killed in northeast Nigeria military raid
110 days ago
A military official says 18 people have been killed during days of fighting in northeast Nigeria pitting soldiers against suspected rebels with the radical Islamist sect known as Boko Haram.
Peace offer made amid northeast Nigeria violence
114 days ago
While a government official later welcomed the announcement, it came as soldiers and police still hold Boko Haram members and violence continued unabated in the region.
First batch of Nigerian troops off to Mali
125 days ago
A top Nigerian military officer says that Mali's Islamist extremist rebels trained Nigeria's Boko Haram terrorists.
