The operations, including fighting patrols, ambushes, clearance and logistics strangulation operations, stretched from ...

Drastic cuts to humanitarian aid in north-eastern Nigeria could prove a boon to one of the world's most deadly militant ...

Nigeria losing ground ‘almost on a daily basis’ At its peak in 2013 and 2014, Boko Haram gained global notoriety after kidnapping 276 Chibok schoolgirls and controlled an area the size of Belgium.

Boko Haram, Nigeria’s homegrown jihadis, took up arms in 2009 to fight Western education and impose their radical version of Islamic law. The conflict also has spilled into Nigeria’s northern ...

Boko Haram, Nigeria’s homegrown jihadis, took up arms in 2009 to fight Western education and impose their radical version of Islamic law.

Boko Haram is a militant Islamic group that has existed for more than a decade in Nigeria, but it has become increasingly violent since an internal leadership change in 2009.

Let’s analyse the Boko Haram insurgency using Galula’s counterinsurgency manual. The Boko Haram war has festered because it is an irregular war that tanks and bullets alone can’t address. Have we ...

Boko Haram has always been a focus, and in August 2018, we published an analysis of all our Boko Haram data to date. But the NST also collects data pertaining to police and military violence, and ...

GOMBE, Nigeria — Aminu Usman sat facing his interrogators and answered questions thrown at him about his life as a Boko Haram terrorist. “We were told that we were in the service of God ...

Nigeria’s information minister, however, downplayed the December 27 attacks and further reaffirmed that Boko Haram was on the precipice of being “wiped out.” ...

In this photo taken with a mobile phone, a Muslim girl walks past one of 300 houses razed by suspected Boko Haram members in Kawuri, Maiduguri, Nigeria, on January 28, 2014.