LAGOS, Nigeria—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, ...

From mass killings and military base attacks to kidnappings and mass displacement, assaults across the Northeastern states ...

Kano, Feb 24 (AFP) The leader of Boko Haram’s main faction, Abubakar Shekau, has admitted killing the group’s purported spokesman over an apparent plot to oust him, he said in an audio recording. In ...

The deposed leader of an IS-backed faction of Boko Haram has been detained by more radical elements who seized control of the group, three well-informed sources have told AFP. Uncertainty has ...

A new journalistic work by Ahmad Salkida has revealed a hidden chapter in the life of Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau The account detailed how Shekau was secretly treated in Kano after being wounded ...

Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau dismissed Nigerian military claims of his death in a new video obtained by AFP on Thursday and said the militants had implemented strict Islamic law in captured towns ...

LAGOS: Boko Haram, a Nigerian terrorist group that has pledged allegiance to Daesh radical group, may have a new leader, according to the group’s online weekly Al-Naba. “In his first interview with Al ...

A close aide to the head of jihadist group Boko Haram on Friday denied Nigerien army claims that he he had been killed in a targeted airstrike in the Lake Chad basin. The militant group has been ...

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Abubakar Shekau, the leader of Nigeria's Islamist Boko Haram militants, said on Monday he would "sell on the market" more than 200 schoolgirls abducted by his fighters last month, according to a video ...