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

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

The Niger army revealed it had killed Ibrahim Bakoura, a leader of the jihadist group Boko Haram in the Lake Chad basin, ...

Nigeria's airforce said it had killed more than 35 jihadists in raids Saturday on militant fighters that had gathered near ...

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, ...

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 ...

Amnesty International called Boko Haram’s recent attacks in Baga -- near the Nigeria-Chad border – possibly “the “deadliest massacre” in the history of the violent group. An Amnesty ...

Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari— who is in the U.K. on sick leave —has claimed on several occasions to have defeated Boko Haram.

Victims of the Boko Haram attack on Dalori rest in their damaged houses in Maiduguri, Nigeria, February 4. More than 80 people were killed in the attack, one of Boko Haram's deadliest in 2016.

More than 2,800 people have been killed in Nigeria since the Boko Haram crisis in Nigeria started in 2009, according to Human Rights Watch. The Islamic militant group, which wants to enforce a ...