"We are never coming back," one of the girls says in the video. — -- A video released in Nigeria this week by Boko Haram purportedly shows some of the schoolgirls who were abducted from the town ...

­­Kano, Nigeria — Boko Haram on Tuesday claimed it was behind the abduction of hundreds of students in northwestern Nigeria, in what appears to be a major expansion of the jihadist group's activities ...

Boko Haram, a Nigeria based Islamic terrorist group, has embraced digital technology for their operations using encrypted apps like Telegram and WhatsApp to communicate. This goes beyond carrying out ...

The leader of Boko Haram — the Nigerian terror group that has killed tens of thousands of people and kidnapped hundreds of schoolchildren — has killed himself ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. Asch Harwood is a research associate with the Council on Foreign Relations and the ...

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria — Israel Peter was 6 years old when Boko Haram Islamic extremists attacked his village in northeastern Nigeria and his family fled. Eight years later, he still hasn’t returned to ...

A close aide to the head of jihadist group Boko Haram on Friday denied Nigerien army claims that he he had been killed in a targeted airstrike in the Lake Chad basin. The militant group has been ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. According to the Times story, Boko Haram militants now control four of ten zones ...

The Islamist terrorist group Boko Haram gained worldwide infamy in April 2014 when it kidnapped 276 girls from a boarding school in Chibok, Nigeria. Now, thanks to two recent studies published by the ...