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.
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.
BERLIN (AP) — Germany has deported an alleged Islamic extremist deemed dangerous by authorities to Nigeria.
The President of the Nigerian Catholic bishops’ conference has appealed to the government to be “more proactive” in defending Christians from the atrocities being wrought by the Muslim population in north-central Nigeria.
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.
On Thursday, a federal court in Brooklyn convicted al-Qaeda terrorist Ibrahim Suleiman Adnan Harun for his role in a 2003 ambush that killed two American servicemen in Afghanistan.
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.
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.
European Union (EU) Ambassador to Nigeria Michel Arrion has reportedly said that Europe’s “ageing population” means the continent needs to open up legal channels for Africans to migrate.
Abuja (AFP) – Two German archaeologists who were kidnapped while working at a dig site in northern Nigeria last week have been released and are doing well, the German foreign ministry said Sunday. “The two archaeologists from the Goethe University
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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.
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In what the nation’s president called a “regrettable operational mistake,” the Nigerian Air Force conducted an airstrike on a refugee camp housing Boko Haram victims in northeast Borno state, leaving up to over 100 civilians dead and dozens wounded.
Two children, suspected to be 7 and 12 years old and believed to be linked to the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) branch Boko Haram, reportedly carried out twin suicide bombings Monday that left at least five people dead and 15 others injured at the University of Maiduguri (UNIMAID) in the capital of northeastern Nigeria’s Borno State.
Cameroonians, a year removed from receiving presidential permission to use witchcraft against Boko Haram, report mixed results on the use of chants and talismans to keep terrorist members of the Islamic State affiliate from attacking their communities.
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A 10-year-old girl used as suicide bomber detonated an explosive and killed herself in a New Year’s Eve attack in Maiduguri, Nigeria. Although no group or individual has said they are responsible for the attack, using women and little girls is consistent with the tactics of the ISIS-affiliated group Boko Haram.
Nearly three dozen young people affiliated with the Nigeria-based Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) branch Boko Haram have reportedly surrendered to authorities in neighboring Niger, according to Niger’s interior minister.
Islamist militants from the Boko Haram terror group are instructing their teenage recruits how to sexually assault women as part of their training, both as a means of terror and an incentive for the young militants.
As final migration statistics roll in for 2016, Italy has surpassed Greece as the principal port of entry for migrants trying to reach Europe.
A suicide bomb attack killed one person and injured 17 others at a market in Maiduguri, Nigeria, on Sunday. According to one eyewitness, the bombers were young children: two girls only 7 or 8 years of age.
The flood of African migrants into Italy has brought more harm than meets the eye, including “thousands of Nigerian women” forced into prostitution by well-organized Nigerian mafias, according to a series of recent reports.
A new study finds that the Islamic State-affiliated terrorist group Boko Haram has begun to recruit women as well as men. Though not allowed the same liberty to engage in jihad as men are, the desperate poverty many Muslim women find themselves in make the Boko Haram lifestyle and attractive alternative.
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The Nigerian military reported the finding of a shopping list on a Boko Haram terrorist which included a variety of drugs for “libido enhancement” and the treatment of sexually transmitted diseases.
A devastating Human Rights Watch report published Monday accuses members of the Nigerian military of raping underaged Boko Haram victims, leading to a dramatic increase in the number of HIV cases at the camp.
The Nigerian military has provided conflicting reports in the aftermath of a Boko Haram attack that the Associated Press reported resulted in 83 soldiers missing in action, offering national media significantly lower figures or refusing to publicize an official number.
Two female immigrants from Somalia living in the United States were convicted of giving material support to al-Shabaab, a designated Islamic terrorist organization.
The Nigerian government initially confirmed, but later denied, that 21 schoolgirls who were kidnapped by the Islamic State branch Boko Haram from Chibok, Nigeria, were recently released in a prisoner swap for four imprisoned high-ranking jihadis.
About 100 schoolgirls are unwilling to go home after being kidnapped more than two years ago in Nigeria by the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL)-linked jihadist group Boko Haram. Officials say the girls may have been radicalized, according to news reports.
Former President Bill Clinton, in a private fundraiser speech last year made public by Wikileaks earlier this week, told his wife’s donors that their family foundation has tried to “to save the lives of children” in Nigerian territory held by jihadist group Boko Haram.
The Islamic State-affiliated terrorist group Boko Haram has released 21 schoolgirls abducted from the northern town of Chibok in 2014, the first time any of the girls kidnapped in that particular episode have been released, rather than independently escaped.
In a 2012 email chain published online by the organization Wikileaks, senior members of the Clinton Foundation rejected the idea of allowing Bill Clinton to become a member of group promoting agricultural development in Nigeria, with one director arguing that any aid to Nigeria would detract from fundraising for Haiti.
Agents in Nigeria have been offering pregnant women paid assistance to have their babies for free on the NHS, a hospital manager has claimed, prompting the London hospital she works for to begin asking pregnant women to show their passports
After the latest spate of abductions and killings of clergy by Muslims, Nigerian Church officials are wondering aloud whether priests are becoming an “endangered species” in the African country.
Women and girls in a Nigeria-based camp for people who have been displaced by the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) wing known as Boko Haram are trading sex for food, reports Reuters.