This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — The leader of ...

Habila Adamu survived Boko Haram, the group that kidnapped the Nigerian girls. May 6, 2014— -- The Nigerian terrorist group Boko Haram gained worldwide notoriety this week after they admitted to ...

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 ...

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 ...

*More than 300 Nigerian school boys have been released after being kidnapped last week by the terrorist group Boko Haram, officials said. Aminu Bello Masari, governor of Katsina state in northern ...

Amnesty International (AI) demanded action on Wednesday against Boko Haram following a recent wave of violence that resulted in the deaths of over 40 civilians in Borno State. In a statement, Isa ...

The militant group Islamic State West African Province (ISWAP) said in an audio recording heard by Reuters on Sunday that Abubakar Shekau, leader of rival Nigerian militant Islamist group Boko Haram, ...

"We are never coming back," one of the girls says in the video. — -- A video released in Nigeria this week by Boko Haram purportedly shows some of the schoolgirls who were abducted from the town ...

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria — The leader of Nigerian extremist group Boko Haram, Abubakar Shekau, has killed himself, according to a jihadi organization linked to the Islamic State group. An audio recording ...