Calling it “haram” is like saying it’s “halal,” which means that Islamic law forbids it. Nicole is Christian and Azan is Muslim, and they’ve both indicated they have zero plans to convert.

In April 2014, members of the jihadist group Boko Haram ambushed an all-girls boarding school in Chibok in the middle of the night and kidnapped 276 students before vanishing into the forest. Some ...

From left, Fatima Abdu, 14, Zahra Bukar, 13, Fatima Bukar, 13, and Yagana Mustapha, 15, four schoolgirls who escaped from a Boko Haram attack on their school, sit at the home of a schoolmate at ...

Boko Haram has abducted more than 1,000 children in northeast Nigeria since 2013, the United Nations ' children's agency announced Friday. The number of children kidnapped by the Nigerian ...

The official name of Boko Haram, the Nigerian group apparently responsible for the kidnapping of over 200 schoolgirls, is Jama’atu Ahlis Sunna Lidda’awati wal-Jihad. That translates into ...

The New York Times met and photographed dozens of the students abducted by Boko Haram. Now at a university, they say they are the lucky ones. But their celebrity has a price.

A five-hour gunbattle between Boko Haram and soldiers in Cameroon left 143 people dead, the government said, and sent thousands of inhabitants fleeing across this West African country that has ...

Just over two years ago, the extremist Islamist group Boko Haram became infamous worldwide for kidnapping nearly 300 Nigerian schoolgirls, most of whom are still missing today. However, within the ...

Boko Haram, the militant group, has kidnapped thousands of boys and forced them to become jihadists. As many escape, Nigeria wonders what to do with them.

Boko Haram’s modus operandi is all too clear: brutal and indiscriminate killings of both Christians and Muslims in northern Nigeria, the bombings of churches and suicide attacks in the federal ...

By November 2014, the dramatic changes in Boko Haram’s propaganda indicated that the group had “shifted almost completely into the Islamic State’s orbit,” according to Mr. Zenn. One new ...