Heavy rains and media reports quoting local government officials say a dam collapse in a nearby town worsened the situation.

Special Forces troops operating under Operation Hadin Kai eliminated a notorious Boko Haram/ISWAP commander, Amir Abu Fatima, ...

Special Forces troops under Operation Hadin Kai have eliminated a notorious Boko Haram/ISWAP commander, Amir Abu Fatima, during a precision strike on a terrorist stronghold in the Kukawa axis of Borno ...

Nigeria is witnessing major violence by Boko Haram the past few weeks. The group and its splinters are responsible for deadly attacks claiming dozens of people. Mass killings in Borno and Yobe states ...

A resurgence of Boko Haram attacks is shaking Nigeria’s northeast, as Islamic extremists have repeatedly overrun military ...

Since its inception in 2009, Boko Haram has fought against Western education and sought to impose a radical version of ...

Already a subscriber? Log in Abba Gana was only 10 years old when Boko Haram insurgents attacked his village in northern Nigeria in 2014. Along with the other boys his age, he was kidnapped and ...

Many survivors of Boko Haram told Amnesty that they witnessed Boko Haram killing their relatives. One young woman, named as CB in the report, said she was abducted at around age 13 in 2014.

The raid was part of an extended campaign of violence by Boko Haram—whose name roughly translates to “Western education is sin”—to create an Islamic state in Nigeria. The kidnapped girls ...