AFA copy 39088019016849 gift of Janet Stanley. "For the past decade, Boko Haram has relentlessly terrorized northeastern Nigeria. Few if any explanations for the rise of this violent insurgent group ...

Boko Haram extremists killed 41 people, including a legislator, and scared hundreds of people from polling stations but millions voted across Nigeria Saturday in the most closely contested ...

The Boko Haram sect, though has been existence since 2001, did not become popular in the country until 2009, when it participated actively in sectarian violence, which occurred then in Jos, Plateau ...

Northern Bureau Chief, MUHAMMAD SABIU, looks at the factors that have led to the recent return of Boko Haram insurgency in Borno State. His report: The atmosphere was serene. Inside the spacious ...

Despite official denial, locals speak of secret mining deals, military blind spots, and a decade of underground resource exploitation by insurgent group Boko Haram in Borno, writes ISAH OJO It is no ...

Boko Haram does not engage in Nigeria's political system out of an adherence to a fundamentalist form of Islam, which forbids participation unless the system is based on Sharia, or Islamic law.

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. When Boko Haram's violence broke out 12 years ago this week, a mile ...

Parents fear time may be running out for their sons as Boko Haram has a history of turning captives into militant fighters.

The remnants of Boko Haram terrorists and other forms of insurgency will be crushed in less than no time if the Nigerian Army is provided the necessary gadgets according to Maj. Gen. Olusegun Adeniyi, ...

Hundreds of bodies – too many to count – remain strewn in the bush in Nigeria from an Islamic extremist attack that Amnesty International suggested Friday is the “deadliest massacre” in the history of ...

(CNN) — Here’s a look at Boko Haram, a militant Islamic group working out of Nigeria, whose purpose is to institute Sharia, or Islamic law. In the local Hausa dialect, Boko Haram means “Western ...