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 Muslims, according to an ...

A fishermen's leader tells the BBC that 40 people are feared dead - either in the strikes or drowning as they tried to flee.

Since Friday, Chadian fighter jets have been bombing Boko Haram camps on remote islands in the vast marshland shared by ...

Deadline passes: Boko Haram says its 72-hour ultimatum to the Nigerian government has expired and threatens to kill women and ...

A faction of Boko Haram terrorists known as Jama’atu Ahlis-Sunna Lidda’Awati Wal-Jihad (JAS) has beheaded more than seven victims who attempted to escape from their captivity in Borno State, in a ...

An overnight attack by suspected Boko Haram jihadists on a Chadian military base has killed at least 24 people, a military ...

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — Israel Peter was 6 years old when Boko Haram Islamic extremists attacked his village in northeastern Nigeria and his family fled. Eight years later, he still hasn’t returned ...

­­Kano, Nigeria — Boko Haram on Tuesday claimed it was behind the abduction of hundreds of students in northwestern Nigeria, in what appears to be a major expansion of the jihadist group's activities ...

Boko Haram jihadis have fled their camps around Lake Chad following airstrikes and ground assaults by Chad with support from ...