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

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

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

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

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, ...

A notorious leader of the Boko Haram insurgents, Ibrahim Mahamadu, popularly known as Bakura, has been killed in the Lake ...

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

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.

It has since been repurposed to address the growing regional threat of Boko Haram, a militant Islamist group that got its start in northeastern Nigeria in 2002 and has used kidnapping—most ...

Reporting from Lagos, Nigeria — For two years, the Nigerian military has claimed to have defeated Boko Haram, the Islamist militant group that has terrorized the country’s northeast since 2009.

For months, fear of Boko Haram has gripped Nigeria’s northeast. The goals of the Islamic militant group, which captured international attention through a relentless campaign of brutality, have ...