Nigeria’s military campaign against Boko Haram Islamists is increasingly bogged down as it confronts suicide attacks, looting and indiscriminate slaughter while the UN warns the affected region faces ...

The planned rescue of the over 200 school girls abducted in Chibok in April by Boko Haram is on hold for now. The battle by troops to reclaim Bama and Gwoza both in Borno State from the terrorists is ...

Soldiers and Boko Haram insurgents engaged in a gun battle along the Maiduguri-Damaturu highway in Borno State in the early hours of yesterday. There were however two different accounts of the ...

In this photo taken Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2013 Vigilantes Civilian JTF with cutlasses and clubs mount a check point on the street of Maiduguri, Nigeria. The battered old car, cutlasses and nail-studded ...

Boko Haram's attacks appear to have shifted focus in recent weeks away from creating mayhem to taking ground and holding it DAMATURU/MAIDUGURI, Nigeria, Sept 3 (Reuters) - Boko Haram militants have ...

'Nigeria's envoy to Washington criticized U.S. support in the battle against Boko Haram militants as insufficient, including failure to share enough intelligence and sell needed weaponry to fight the ...

Maiduguri, Nigeria - Boko Haram fighters are massing at their headquarters in the northeast Nigerian town of Gwoza in preparation for a showdown with multinational forces, residents and an ...

A deadly clash of supremacy between rival terrorist factions has reportedly claimed the lives of 15 Boko Haram fighters, with five members of the Islamic State West Africa Province, ISWAP, sustaining ...

BORNO: Nigerian troops have killed 29 suspected Islamist militants in two days of fighting in the northeast, where President Goodluck Jonathan's forces are trying to stamp out Boko Haram's ...