Students from an Islamic school in the north-central Nigerian state of Niger were indiscriminately shot and abducted Sunday by a group of "armed bandits," state police said in a statement. Keep Reading
In April 2014, the hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons was on a yacht cruising in the Caribbean when he tweeted about the 276 girls kidnapped by the terrorist group Boko Haram from a secondary school in Chibok, northeastern Nigeria. Keep Reading
Morocco sent a high-profile delegation to meet with members of the Community of Sahel-Saharan States (CENSAD) in Abuja, Nigeria to discuss counterterrorism strategies. Keep Reading
Several people are dead in northeast Nigeria after Boko Haram militants raided a mostly Christian village and burnt down a church on Christmas Eve. Keep Reading
Over three hundred students from the Government Science Secondary School Kankara are missing after gunmen armed with AK-47 rifles attacked the school on December 11. Keep Reading
The assailants tied up the agricultural workers and slit their throats in the village of Koshobe, the militia said. Keep Reading
The mission was undertaken by elite commandos as part of a major effort to free the U.S. citizen, Philip Walton, 27, before his abductors could get far after taking him captive in Niger on Oct. 26, counterterrorism officials told ABC News. Keep Reading
Some aid groups "entrance" populations to Christianity, the terror group said, and push "secularism, democracy, socialism." Keep Reading
Jamaat al-Ansar al-Muslimeen fi Bilad al-Sudan, better known as Ansaru, reported yesterday that its men were behind a recent attack in Nigeria’s northwestern Kaduna State. Keep Reading
The commander of U.S. Special Operations Command, Africa, Major General Dagvin Anderson, warned that the terrorist group is making in-roads into Nigeria and other African countries. Keep Reading
The vessels, DB Lagos and DB Abuja, which arrived the country recently are equipped with sophisticated intelligence gathering capability for timely detection and response to illegal activities in the maritime domain. Keep Reading
DHS official said immigrants, not visitors, were targeted as they pose the "greatest challenge in removal proceedings." Keep Reading
The footage posted online late Thursday, December 26, by ISIS-linked propaganda arm Amaq showed 11 blindfolded men being shot and stabbed by jihadists. Keep Reading
A number of mourners in the village near Maiduguri were reportedly killed straight away, while others died trying to chase off the attackers. Keep Reading
Analysts, though, have reported throughout the year to date that ISIS West Africa, territorially based on the banks and islands of Lake Chad, has been growing in power and influence. Keep Reading
Even as ISIL has lost its territorial “caliphate” in Iraq and Syria, it has persisted in a modified, reduced form with insurgent warfare and periodic terrorist attacks. Keep Reading
The militants overran the base, holding it for several hours, and hauling away weapons before they were forced out. Keep Reading
The Nigerian Navy detained the civilian anti-piracy personnel on suspicion of illegal firearms possession. Four semiautomatic rifles were found on board. Keep Reading
In the last five months, the insurgent group has gained a grim kind of momentum, establishing itself in new towns in northeastern Nigeria and beyond. Keep Reading
The key contribution of Ansaru to militancy in Zamfara, therefore, may not only be expertise in kidnappings, ambushes, and robbery, but also organizing the armed actors into a more coherent politically oriented jihadist project. Keep Reading