YOLA, Nigeria -- 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 ...

YOLA, Nigeria (AP) 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 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 ...

The Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt. General Yusuf Buratai has said the issue of Boko Haram terrorists would soon become a thing of the past, saying the army is winning the fight against the insurgents ...

(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 ...

Boko Haram was founded in 2002 by Mohammed Yusuf in Maiduguri, the capital of Borno State. The objective of Boko Haram is to overthrow Nigerian government and replace it with a regime based on Islamic ...

When Boko Haram's violence broke out 12 years ago this week, a mile from my family home in Maiduguri, northeast Nigeria, none of us even began to imagine the sheer horror we were about to suffer. That ...

In the beginning The Boko Haram insurgency, which has claimed the lives of over 20,000 people, with a further displacement of another two million, is the most challenging armed conflict directly ...

In 2015, West African countries fought against the jihadist militant group Boko Haram which controlled large areas of northeastern Nigeria. Show more In 2015, West African countries fought against the ...

YOLA, Nigeria — 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” ...