Boko Haram News

Reports suggest that support from foreign mercenaries, including Pakistanis, has boosted the capabilities of groups like Boko Haram and Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP).

Local residents believe it belongs to the Boko Haram militant group. A large number of boko haram militants came on motorbikes and started firing indiscriminately. Borno State have been ravaged by militant attacks since 2009.

Salman Khurshid is a former Union Minister A case has been filed against him under Sections 153, 295 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) In his book, Khurshid has reportedly compared Hindutva to radical terrorist groups

Boko Haram`s leader was reported to have been killed on several occasions over the last 12 years The group has killed more than 30,000 people, forced around 2 million people to flee their homes and spawned one of the world`s worst humanitarian crises

India has expressed its concerns on acts of terrorism in West Africa at UNSC. Indian envoy pointed out to increased activities of Boko Haram and Islamic State's West Africa Province. TS Tirumurti was speaking at a security council meeting on West Africa and the Sahel region.

Insurgents from the Boko Haram extremist group claimed that on Tuesday, hundreds of boys from a school in the northern Katsina state of Nigeria were kidnapped in one of the biggest terror attacks.

Military sources who confirmed the attack said the incident occurred late on Wednesday in Aljilati Ngomari village, Xinhua news agency reported.

Nigeria's government has said it has set up a panel to investigate the abduction of 110 girls from their school last week by suspected members of the extremist Boko Haram group.

Rome`s ancient Colosseum was lit in red on Saturday in solidarity with persecuted Christians, particularly Asia Bibi, a woman condemned to death under Pakistan`s blasphemy laws.

Attacks on aid workers are relatively rare in the conflict with the Islamist insurgency, compared with assaults on the military and civilians in Nigeria`s northeast.

Boko Haram fighters battled Nigerian soldiers for about an hour as they tried to take over a military base, in the latest attack against troops in the restive northeast.

Muhammad Yusuf, a charismatic Muslim preacher, founded the group in 2001 from his base in the Railway suburb of the Borno state capital, Maiduguri.

Suspected members of Islamist militant group Boko Haram took over a town in the restive state of Borno in northeast Nigeria on Saturday, residents said.

At least 50 people were killed in a suicide bomb blast on Tuesday at a mosque in the northeastern town of Mubi, in Adamawa state, northeast Nigeria, police said.

At least three soldiers were killed when Boko Haram fighters ambushed a military convoy in northeast Nigeria, security and civilian sources told AFP on Thursday.

Nearly 60 men who said they were captured by the Boko Haram Islamist group and forced to fight for them in Nigeria have surrendered to authorities in northern Cameroon.

Nigeria has convicted and jailed 45 Boko Haram suspects, the government said on Friday, the first sentences it has handed down in a set of mass trials that have drawn criticism for being held behind closed doors.

The announcement that due process was finally to begin was given a cautious welcome but a ban on media access will likely raise concerns about transparency.

The UN children's fund said last month that 83 children had been used as suicide bombers this year, four times as many as in all of 2016.

The attack on Friday evening in Ngala, near the border with Cameroon, came as two people were killed in an explosion outside another camp in the Borno state capital, Maiduguri.