Drastic cuts to humanitarian aid in north-eastern Nigeria could prove a boon to one of the world's most deadly militant ...

New evidence shows how the JAS group’s Shiroro cell adopts a flexible approach that tolerates local bandits and their vices.

Former Borno State Governor, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff, has proposed regional collaboration as a lasting solution to the Boko ...

Abuja: Over 50 people were abducted by gunmen in a mass kidnapping in northwestern Nigeria, according to a report prepared by a conflict observatory ...

Nigeria’s N12.6trn defence spend since 2009 has failed to stop Boko Haram, with killings surging and grassroots groups ...

The research focused on Nigerian widows who lost their husbands in the Boko Haram conflict, and the extent to which the ...

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria -- Four Boko Haram suicide bombers killed 19 people in a series of attacks that targeted a civilian self-defense force and the people who gathered to mourn their deaths, police ...

Boko Haram, Nigeria’s homegrown jihadis, took up arms in 2009 to fight Western education and impose their radical version of Islamic law. The conflict has spilled into Nigeria’s northern ...

Boko Haram’s seven-year Islamic uprising has killed more than 20,000 people, spread across Nigeria’s borders, driven some 2.3 million people from their homes and created a massive humanitarian ...

Nigeria’s information minister, however, downplayed the December 27 attacks and further reaffirmed that Boko Haram was on the precipice of being “wiped out.” ...

On Boko Haram's relationship to al-Qaida They seem to be even more extreme than al-Qaida. A few years ago, we could've barely imagined that.