Tag: Boko Haram

Chad said Thursday its warplanes bombed Boko Haram positions in neighboring Nigeria to avenge twin suicide bombings in the capital this week blamed on the terrorists. Chad's military vowed it ...

Seventy-one Chadian soldiers have been killed and 416 injured in two-and-a-half months' fighting Boko Haram, the Chadian army said on Friday. Chad is taking part in a regional offensive against ...

Boko Haram's pledge of allegiance to the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant terrorist group was a sign of weakness and a result of pressure on the militants by ...

Troops from Chad and Niger have retaken the northeastern Nigerian town of Damasak from Boko Haram as part of a regional offensive to combat the militants who have pledged allegiance ...

Boko Haram, the Nigeria-based terror group, has pledged allegiance to ISIL, according to an audio message purported to be from Boko Haram's leader, Abubakar Shekau. In the audio, which was ...

Boko Haram fighters killed 68 people, many of them children, in northeast Nigeria, as militants began amassing in the strategic town of Gwoza against a possible fight-back by military forces. ...

Boko Haram gunmen attacked an island on the Niger side of Lake Chad, with locals reporting heavy casualties among those who fled but no official confirmation of the death toll. ...

Nigerian forces have killed more than 300 Boko Haram fighters during an operation to recapture 11 towns and villages since the start of the week, the military said on Wednesday, ...

France has found itself the best positioned Western nation to assist in the regional fight against Boko Haram -- but also the most vulnerable to being sucked into an open-ended ...

Abuja. Nigerian army troops fought off several armed attacks on the large northeastern city of Maiduguri on Sunday, according to military sources. The city was stormed by suspected Boko Haram militants around 9 ...