Joy Bishara and Lydia Pogu — who jumped from a moving truck as their captors tried to spirit them away to a forest hideout in 2014 — are now planning to pursue master's degrees For Joy Bishara and ...

­­Kano, Nigeria — Boko Haram on Tuesday claimed it was behind the abduction of hundreds of students in northwestern Nigeria, in what appears to be a major expansion of the jihadist group's activities ...

SaharaReporters had reported the killing of Army personnel, including Colonel I.A. Mohammed, during an ambush by militants from the Islamic State-backed faction of Boko Haram in Borno. The attack on ...

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria — Israel Peter was 6 years old when Boko Haram Islamic extremists attacked his village in northeastern Nigeria and his family fled. Eight years later, he still hasn’t returned to ...

The leader of Boko Haram — the Nigerian terror group that has killed tens of thousands of people and kidnapped hundreds of schoolchildren — has killed himself ...

Around 6:30 P.M. on an evening in April, 2013, Aisha Yerima was at her home in Banki, a town in northeast Nigeria. Aisha was twenty-one, slim and dark-skinned, her face wrapped in a hijab. She had ...

Boko Haram fighters have reportedly hoisted the Islamist group’s flag in a remote district in Niger State, Nigeria’s Middle Belt region, and seized the wives of fleeing residents, the state’s governor ...

On March 7, 2015, Abu Bakr Shekau, leader of the Nigerian-based Al Qaeda affiliated jihadi group Jama’at Ahl Al Sunna lil Da’wa Wal Jihad, better known as Boko Haram, issued a nearly 20-minute message ...

This is a guest blog post by Sherrie Russell-Brown. Sherrie is a researcher, consultant, and international lawyer focusing on armed conflict, gender, security, international justice, and humanitarian ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. An attack by Boko Haram killed at least 40 farmers in northeast Nigeria's Borno state, a government official said Monday.