Nigeria's military says it has used precision airstrikes to kill at least 35 Islamic militants in the country's northeast.

Niger's army said its soldiers killed a leader of the jihadist group Boko Haram in the Lake Chad basin, but experts cast ...

Niger's army has claimed to have killed Boko Haram leader Ibrahim Mahamadu, alias "Bakura", without providing evidence, ...

The army in Niger says it has killed a senior leader of Boko Haram in a targeted airstrike. State television reported ...

Strikes are latest by the Nigerian military as it battles resurgence of attacks by armed groups in country’s northeast.

Boko Haram is infamous for killings, kidnappings, and destruction. Its ideology stems from Salafi-Wahabi beliefs, influenced by scholars like Abu Muhammad Al Maqdisi. Yusuf, educated through the ...

Nigerian air forces have struck hard at armed groups in the northeast, inflicting heavy losses and trying to stabilize the ...

The Niger army claims a targeted airstrike killed Ibrahim Bakoura, a senior Boko Haram leader. The group, which emerged from ...

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 ...

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 ...

Six suspected Boko Haram members, including Muslim Mohammed Yusuf, son of the late founder of the Boko Haram terrorist sect, ...

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