ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — A resurgence of Boko Haram attacks is shaking Nigeria’s northeast, as Islamic extremists have repeatedly overrun military outposts, mined roads with bombs and raided ...

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — A resurgence of Boko Haram attacks is shaking Nigeria’s northeast, as Islamic extremists have repeatedly overrun military outposts, mined roads with bombs and raided ...

A resurgence of Boko Haram attacks is shaking Nigeria’s northeast, as Islamic extremists have repeatedly overrun military outposts, mined roads with bombs and raided civilian communities since ...

However, it was Boko Haram of Mohammed Yusuf in Maiduguri, Borno State, North-eastern Nigeria, that took to terrorism gradually and eventually launched an armed insurgency in 2009.

The raid was part of an extended campaign of violence by Boko Haram—whose name roughly translates to “Western education is sin”—to create an Islamic state in Nigeria.

Boko Haram’s decade-long insurgency in northeastern Nigeria has overshadowed a growing security crisis in the country’s northwest.

Consultation with women displaced by Boko Haram is critical to understanding their needs and how best to achieve them.

Rebels from the Boko Haram extremist group claimed responsibility for abducting hundreds of boys from a school in Nigeria’s northern Katsina state.

DAKAR, Senegal — Boko Haram claimed responsibility Tuesday for abducting more than 300 boys from a secondary school in northwest Nigeria, marking a striking leap from the extremist group's usual ...