Islamic extremists have killed nine people and injured four in northeastern Nigeria's Borno state, authorities report.

Violence by bandits and insurgents has surged in Nigeria, with over 2,266 deaths reported in the first half of 2025, ...

More people were killed by bandits or insurgents in Nigeria in the first half of this year than in all of 2024, according to figures released on Tuesday by Nigeria's human rights agency. Nigeria's ...

Nine killed, four injured in Boko Haram attack on Malam Fatori, Borno. Governor warns residents against aiding insurgents ...

Nine people were killed and four injured in a Boko Haram attack on Malam Fatori, Borno State, Nigeria. The community, near ...

A group of Igbo leaders has condemned the continued detention of the Igbo freedom fighter, Nnamdi Kanu at a time the Nigerian ...

Girls and young women freed from Boko Haram terrorists in northeast Nigeria continue to suffer severe hardships, including unlawful military detention, neglect, and inadequate support to start ...

Nigerian soldiers hold up a Boko Haram flag they had seized in the retaken town of Damasak, Nigeria, on March 18, 2015. Emmanuel Braun/Reuters ...

Boko Haram is a militant Islamic group that has existed for more than a decade in Nigeria, but it has become increasingly violent since an internal leadership change in 2009.

— -- More than two years after their abduction, 21 of the missing Chibok schoolgirls have been released by Boko Haram in northern Nigeria, a government spokesman said Thursday. “The release ...

In Nigeria, where Boko Haram fighters infamously abducted almost 300 girls from their school in Chibok in April 2014, there has been an uptick in kidnappings.