The operations, including fighting patrols, ambushes, clearance and logistics strangulation operations, stretched from ...

Troops conducting counter-insurgency operations in Borno State have repelled a coordinated attack by suspected Boko Haram and ISWAP fighters in the early ...

Drastic cuts to humanitarian aid in north-eastern Nigeria could prove a boon to one of the world's most deadly militant ...

New evidence shows how the JAS group’s Shiroro cell adopts a flexible approach that tolerates local bandits and their vices.

Nigeria’s N12.6trn defence spend since 2009 has failed to stop Boko Haram, with killings surging and grassroots groups ...

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 ...

The research focused on Nigerian widows who lost their husbands in the Boko Haram conflict, and the extent to which the ...

Boko Haram, Nigeria’s homegrown jihadis, took up arms in 2009 to fight Western education and impose their radical version of Islamic law.

Nigeria losing ground ‘almost on a daily basis’ At its peak in 2013 and 2014, Boko Haram gained global notoriety after kidnapping 276 Chibok schoolgirls and controlled an area the size of Belgium.

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 ...

Boko Haram, Nigeria’s homegrown jihadis, took up arms in 2009 to fight Western education and impose their radical version of Islamic law.

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 ...