Boko Haram has released a video demanding the release of all militants held by the government in exchange for the return of about 220 still-missing Nigerian girls, many of whom appear in the video ...

Boko Haram militants have threatened to execute more than 400 women and children they are holding hostage within 72 hours.

Relatives meet with abducted girls after the releasing 82 of school girls, kidnapped by Boko Haram in Chibok back in 2014, at Aso Rock Presidential Villa in Abuja, Nigeria on May 20, 2017. A Nigerian ...

More girls have allegedly been kidnapped by suspected Boko Haram militants in northeastern Nigeria as the search continues for the missing schoolgirls abducted three weeks ago. A resident in the ...

Hundreds of hostages, mostly children and women, were rescued from Boko Haram extremists in northeastern Nigeria's Sambisa Forest. The hostages, totaling 350, including 209 children, 135 women, and ...

Johannesburg — There were reports emerging Wednesday that Islamic militants had abducted dozens of people near a camp for internally displaced people in northeast Nigeria. Local media outlets said ...

Boko Haram, the diffuse, apparently grass roots insurrection, has undertaken a current wave of carnage in Nigeria’s northeast. Several of the most recent incidents involve government security forces ...

(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 ...

On March 7, 2015, Abu Bakr Shekau, leader of the Nigerian-based Al Qaeda affiliated jihadi group Jama’at Ahl Al Sunna lil Da’wa Wal Jihad, better known as Boko Haram, issued a nearly 20-minute message ...