The Rev. Alphonsus Afina has been released by the Islamic terrorist group Boko Haram after being imprisoned for a month and a ...

Catholic Bishop of Maiduguri Diocese, John Bakeni, has lauded the Department of State Services (DSS) and the Nigerian Army for successfully rescuing Reverend Father Alphonsus Afina, who was kidnapped ...

Lozano added that "this good news has been confirmed to our foundation by local church sources." Fr Afina, assigned to ...

The research focused on Nigerian widows who lost their husbands in the Boko Haram conflict, and the extent to which the ...

Boko Haram is not known to have any formal connections to al Qaeda and, more specifically, its Yemen-based affiliate AQAP, which claimed responsibility for the latest attacks in Paris.

The attack was carried out by Boko Haram militants on the Malam Fatori community, Babagana Zulum, the state governor, said. He did not say when the attack happened. The community, very close to the ...

Boko Haram has also been forced to operate from remote, rural regions, as the Nigerian military and a regional counter-insurgency force have reclaimed almost all of the territory it once held.

Prior to Boko Haram’s capture in July 2014 of Damboa, the first Nigerian town to fall to the extremist sect, its near decade-long insurgency had been characterized by traditional guerilla warfare.

Boko Haram commander Auwal Ismaela, who played a major role in the Chibok abduction, recently surrendered and confessed to several attacks and other useful information about the group.

In August, Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau announced the establishment of his “Islamic Caliphate,” quickly taking over every corner of Borno State in northeast Nigeria.But one town called ...

Boko Haram has dispatched hundreds of the women and girls kidnapped by its soldiers to carry out attacks. Many of the captives are given a choice: marry a fighter or carry a suicide bomb.