LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria’s Boko Haram Islamic extremists have a new leader who is threatening to bomb churches and kill Christians while ending attacks on mosques and markets used by ordinary ...

Two infants succumbed to the ‘harsh conditions’ of Boko Haram captivity in the Mandara mountains, the army says.

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Abubakar Shekau said Thursday he is still the leader of Boko Haram, rejecting a successor announced hours earlier by the Islamic State group and exposing the biggest rift yet ...

The Nigerian army says it is looking into reports that Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau has died after blowing himself up to avoid being captured by a rival group. The Nigerian army says it is ...

The group includes many women and children who were abducted in March from an area close to Cameroon.

Boko Haram's elusive leader Abubakar Shekau appeared in a new video on Thursday to dispute a claim that the jihadist group had been routed from its Sambisa Forest stronghold. "We are safe. We have not ...

Kano, Nigeria - Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau vowed in a new video released on Monday that the group would defeat a regional force fighting the extremists in Nigeria’s far northeast, Niger and ...

The 35-year-old Phillip Given Mnguni, who was with his girlfriend at lunchtime on Tuesday, was shot and killed near the ...

The leader of Nigeria's Boko Haram militants, Abubakar Shekau, pledged allegiance to the Islamic State (IS) group in an audio recording released Saturday. "We announce our allegiance to the Caliph of ...

'rendered': 'Suspected Boko Haram terrorists have freed the 416 captives abducted from Ngoshe, a community in Gwoza Local Government Area of Borno State.Confirming the development to PUNCH Online on ...