It was Friday, January 20th, 2012, in Kano, the largest city in Nigeria’s predominately Muslim north, and prayers at mosques had drawn to an end. Residents of the crowded and ancient metropolis were ...

Boko Haram militancy is spreading across West African nations much like the ISIS fundamentalism terrorising Syria and Iraq, Cameroon has warned. Lieutenant Colonel Didier Badjeck, the country's ...

(MENAFN- The Conversation) Abubakar Shekau, the erstwhile leader of the terrorist group Jama'at Ahl al-Sunna li al-Da'wa wa al-Jihad (JAS) , died in 2021. The west African group, also known as Boko ...

Hold the bomb under your armpit to keep it steady, the women and girls were taught. Sever your enemy’s head from behind, to minimise struggling. “If you cut from the back of the neck, they die faster, ...

NIGERIA needs foreign help to defeat Boko Haram, an intelligence source has said, as the country's top Muslim leader broke his silence to demand action. The security source, who agreed to an interview ...

The killing of the 39-year-old founding leader of Boko Haram, Mohammed Yusuf, in Maiduguri, Borno State, was supposed to put paid to the 2009 insurgency uprising in the North-East; instead, the group ...

Since launching its Camp Holocaust offensive at the beginning of 2025, Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) has carried out over 200 attacks, killing at least 500 people. And Jama’tu Ahlis Sunna ...