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 ...

CNA Staff, Jun 5, 2025 / 16:09 pm A Nigerian-born priest who served in the Diocese of Fairbanks, Alaska, for more than half a decade has been captured by the terrorist group Boko Haram after ...

Boko Haram's strikes on the MNJTF and co-deployed national armed forces have been numerous and successful. Boko Haram has no shortage of targets. The MNJTF comprises thousands of troops from four ...

A resurgence of Boko Haram attacks is shaking Nigeria’s northeast, as Islamic extremists have repeatedly overrun military outposts, mined roads with bombs and raided civilian communities since ...

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 ...

Parents fear the girls will be made brides for Boko Haram fighters like many of the kidnapped Chibok girls, who were forced to marry their captors. The town of 15,000, which is a three hour drive ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Boko Haram militants have killed five hostages, including four aid workers, who were abducted last month in northeastern Nigeria, a UN spokeswoman told CNN on Thursday.