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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.
Boko Haram, Nigeria’s homegrown jihadis, took up arms in 2009 to fight Western education and impose their radical version of Islamic law. The conflict has spilled into Nigeria’s northern ...
Suspected Boko Haram Islamist militants roared into a northeastern Nigerian village on motorcycles, opened fire on a market and set shops and homes ablaze, killing at least 37 people, according to ...
Boko Haram has overrun a series of towns in northeast Nigeria in recent months. In December, a bomb blast suspected to have been carried out by the Islamic insurgency at a bus station in Gombe ...
The kidnapping of more than 250 high school girls in northeast Nigeria has catapulted the terrorist group Boko Haram into the international spotlight. It has also raised uncomfortable questions for ...
Boko Haram laughed off Nigeria’s announcement of a cease-fire agreement, saying there is no such deal and the abducted schoolgirls have been married off.
Boko Haram has always been a focus, and in August 2018, we published an analysis of all our Boko Haram data to date. But the NST also collects data pertaining to police and military violence, and ...
Although Boko Haram fights on a small annual budget of around $10 million, according to a 2015 estimate from Hassan Baage, deputy director of the U.N. Security Council's Counter-Terrorism ...
Suspected Boko Haram militants killed at least 65 people who had gathered for a funeral in northeastern Nigeria over the weekend, a local official said. The assailants, who arrived on motorbikes ...
Nigeria’s information minister, however, downplayed the December 27 attacks and further reaffirmed that Boko Haram was on the precipice of being “wiped out.” ...
In this photo taken with a mobile phone, a Muslim girl walks past one of 300 houses razed by suspected Boko Haram members in Kawuri, Maiduguri, Nigeria, on January 28, 2014.