Boko Haram

Attackers killed nine Nigerian construction workers early Monday in the restive northeastern city of Maiduguri, the base of the Islamist…

KANO, Nigeria — Several explosions struck a university campus Sunday morning in northern Nigeria near a theater hall where Catholics…

ABUJA, Nigeria — Nigeria is opening a secret detention center to hold and interrogate suspected high-level members of a radical…

Global rights watchdog Human Rights Watch Wednesday condemned attacks by suspected members of Boko Haram on schools in and around…

A suicide bomber drove an explosives packed car into a church inNigeria's volatile central city of Jos on Sunday and killed three people, 

A man claiming to be a spokesman for Nigeria's extremist sect Boko Haram said Tuesday that the group was behind…

Libyan Prime Minister Abdurrahim al-Keib called on Sunday for a regional security conference to tackle a proliferation of weapons by…

Islamist sect Boko Haram, whose attacks have killed hundreds in Nigeria, will continue its campaign until the country is ruled…

Fresh explosions and gunfire early Tuesday rocked an area near a police station in the Nigerian city of Kano, where…

Gun and bomb attacks by Islamist insurgents in the northern Nigerian city of Kano last week killed at least 178…