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Nigeria’s Senate will debate Thursday whether to allow President Muhammadu Buhari to reappropriate $1 billion in surplus oil revenue to the fight against Boko Haram, an Islamic State affiliate Buhari claimed to have defeated two years ago.

A young girl wearing an explosive vest blew herself up Tuesday evening in the midst of other schoolchildren in Cameroon, killing four besides herself, in an attack thought to be instigated by the Boko Haram Islamic terror group.

The line between real news and fake news is quickly blurred when the media decide to double down on the investment in an anti-Trump meme. Such is the case with the media’s investment in a Florida congresswoman’s attacks on President Trump for his call to the grieving widow of Army special forces Sgt. La David Johnson, who was killed October 4 in the west African nation of Niger.

The killing of four U.S. soldiers in an ambush attack in Niger has both citizens and congressional representatives asking questions about the American military presence in that country. Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John McCain (R-AZ) went so far as accusing the Trump administration of being less than “up front” about the attack and hinting that his committee might launch an investigation.

The government of Nigeria has once again made the claim that the Islamic State affiliate Boko Haram no longer has the ability to freely operate in the nation’s northeast, as its courts prepare to be overwhelmed with over 1,600 cases against individual members of the jihadist group.

Machete-wielding jihadists from the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL)-linked Boko Haram group reportedly used the weapon to quietly slaughter the chief Imam and four others in a village located in the terrorist group’s birthplace in northeastern Nigeria, Borno state.

The Nigerian branch of the Islamic State, Boko Haram, claws its way off the mat every time international media pronounce it down for the count.

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) warned Tuesday that it has documented “an appalling increase” in the use of children, particularly girls, as “human bombs” in northeast Nigeria, noting that the number has risen to four times higher than in 2016.

A Boko Haram splinter group affiliated with the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) recently marked its resurgence by kidnapping a Nigerian oil prospecting team, killing at least 37 people.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Iran continues to be the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism, the Trump administration said Wednesday in a new report that also noted a decline in the number of terrorist attacks globally between 2015 and 2016.

The Nigerian military has once again claimed to have “defeated” Boko Haram. Lt. Gen. Tukur Yusuf Buratai, the chief of the Nigerian army, recently told BBC at the end of last month the jihadist group has been “defeated” militarily but “not eliminated.”

Suicide bombers linked to the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) affiliate Boko Haram have reportedly killed up to nineteen people and wounded 23 others in a spate of attacks that targeted a civilian self-defense force and the people who gathered to mourn their deaths in the northeastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri, known as the birthplace of the jihadist group.

The leader of the Nigeria-based Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) affiliate Boko Haram has reportedly reappeared in a new video, claiming Christians and Muslims cannot coexist in the West African country as equals.

The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL), including its Boko Haram affiliate, proved to be the most prolific and bloodiest jihadi organization during this year’s Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — The European Union has announced a support package of nearly $160 million for recovery and reconstruction in Nigeria’s Borno state, which has been devastated by attacks from homegrown Islamic extremist group Boko Haram.

Islamist militants from the Boko Haram terror group killed at least fifteen civilians Wednesday night in coordinated attacks including three female suicide bombers in the large city of Maiduguri in northeastern Nigeria.

Parents of the girls and young women kidnapped by Islamic State affiliate Boko Haram from Chibok, Nigeria, in 2014 are still waiting to see the 82 released as part of a trade with the terrorist group this weekend. The government claims it is still conducting physical and mental health evaluations, ensuring that none of the girls will pose a danger to society once freed.

Nigerian authorities announced the release of an estimated 82 of the 276 girls kidnapped by the Islamic State-affiliated terrorist group Boko Haram from a mostly Christian school in Chibok, Nigeria in 2014 this weekend. The release appears to be part of a deal that may have gained freedom for jailed Boko Haram terrorists.

A recently published video purportedly shows shadowy Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau once again contradicting reports that the Nigerian military injured him in northeastern Nigeria, the group’s stronghold.

The leader of the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL)-linked terrorist group Boko Haram, Abubakar Shekau, has reportedly suffered yet another “fatal injury” at the hands of the Nigerian military more than a year after his alleged death.

The Nigerian military reportedly insists there is no resurgence of Boko Haram terrorist activities in northeastern Nigeria, considered the group’s stronghold and birthplace.

In a major tactical shift in its terror operations, the radical Islamists of the Boko Haram jihadist group have multiplied the number of women and girls deployed as suicide bombers in an effort to elude detection by security officials.

In many parts of the world, Christians gathering to celebrate Christ’s resurrection do so with the knowledge that any day their faith could cost them their lives as it has for thousands of their brothers and sisters.

She goes by the name Sa’a because — even three years after jumping from a moving truck to escape the Boko Haram terrorists that had kidnapped her and 275 other mostly Christian schoolgirls in Chibok, Nigeria — she fears for her safety and that of the rest of her family.

The United Nations children’s organization UNICEF announced this week that the Islamic State affiliate Boko Haram has used 27 children as suicide bombers in the past three months, nearly the same amount as in the entirety of 2016.

The Africa-based jihadist groups Boko Haram and al-Shabaab have intensified their efforts against U.S. interests in response to increasing American military pressure against their operations approved by President Donald Trump.

According to a new study by the Pew Research Center, there has been a significant uptick in nations with “very high” levels of government restrictions on religion, with Egypt, China and Iran topping the list.

European Parliament President Antonio Tajani claims there could be as many as 30 million migrants heading to Europe in the coming years and advocates “refugee cities” as an answer to the crisis.

Five suicide bombers killed at least eight people and wounded an estimated 20 others when they carried out attacks in Nigeria’s northeastern city of Maiduguri, the birthplace of Boko Haram terrorists and the epicenter of efforts to combat the jihadist group.

A man purporting to be Abubakar Shekau, the leader of the Nigeria-based jihadist group Boko Haram, has allegedly appeared in a new video obtained by Nigerian news outlet Premium Times.

Women who associate with Boko Haram, either willingly or by force, often face stigma when they return home, more than males who voluntarily join the terrorist group, a U.S. diplomat told Voice of America (VOA).

Thousands of women in Nigeria took the streets of the northern capital Maiduguri this weekend to protest the government’s inability to eradicate the Islamic State affiliate Boko Haram, which has not ceased in committing mass abductions, rapes, and murders since the government claimed victory over them in 2015.

U2 frontman Bono condemned the idea of a “national border” as the best way to protect one’s country from Islamic terror.

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Two women suicide bombers, believed to be tied to the Islamic State affiliate Boko Haram, reportedly committed a bombing in Nigeria while carrying infants on their backs.

The Islamic State affiliate Boko Haram raided a refugee camp in northeastern Nigeria late Thursday night, little more than 48 hours after the Nigerian military accidentally conducted an airstrike on the women and children housed in the facility.