Boko Haram launched its first major attack in Niger on Friday, triggering a forceful response from regional troops who claimed to have killed more than a hundred of the terrorists.
Boko Haram on Sunday captured the northeastern town of Monguno, including a military base, after a fierce battle with Nigerian troops, security sources told AFP.
The UN Security Council has urged central African countries to boost plans for a multinational force to fight Boko Haram Takfiri group, which has seized control over an alarming amount of territory in Nigeria and stepped up cross-border raids in neighboring Cameroon.
Nigeria's military has called for support in tackling Boko Haram after a major attack on a key northeast town that Amnesty International described as the “deadliest massacre” in the history of Boko Haram.
Suspected members of terrorist group Boko Haram have attacked a town in north-eastern Nigeria and seized a military base there, local newspaper Premium Times reported Sunday.
A fresh attack by the Nigerian terrorist group Boko Haram in Cameroon has left about 30 Cameroonians dead, a security official said.
Around 1,000 Takfiri Boko Haram militants have attacked five villages in northern Cameroon during the weekend, briefly seizing a military camp
The Boko Haram terrorist group has killed as many as 32 people and kidnapped scores of others in the restive northeastern part of Nigeria
Over 5,000 people have died worldwide in about 664 attacks conducted by terrorists in November, according to a new study conducted by BBC along with the International Centre for the Study of Radicalization (ICSR).
Multiple explosions tore through the central mosque in Nigeria's second-largest city on Friday, killing 35 people, police said.
A newly released study shows that nearly 10,000 terrorist attacks killing almost 18,000 people were conducted around the world last year.
Nigeria's kidnapped schoolgirls have all been converted to Islam and married off, the leader of Nigeria's Islamic extremists claimed in a new video message.
Boko Haram has used kidnapped young women and girls on the front lines of its insurgency, according to a new report published on Monday, after a fresh abduction in Nigeria's far northeast.
Officials and campaigners on Saturday anxiously awaited further news about the fate of more than 200 kidnapped schoolgirls after Nigeria claimed to have reached a deal with Boko Haram militants to secure their release.
Boko Haram, the extremist Islamic group in Nigeria, on Friday released a video online showing charred plane wreckage and the beheading of a man said to be a pilot of a missing Nigerian Air Force jet that the group had claimed to have shot down.
Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau dismissed Nigerian military claims of his death in a new video obtained by AFP on Thursday and said the militants had implemented strict Islamic law in captured towns.
A dozen Nigerian soldiers have been sentenced to death for mutiny and the attempted murder of their commanding officer after their comrades were ambushed by the armed group Boko Haram.
Takfiri Boko Haram militants have reportedly attacked a market outside the key northeastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri, with reports saying that a number of people have been killed.
So-called Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) militant group has set its sights outside the Middle East and has emboldened extremists in Africa operating in voids left by weak governments and rampant corruption, analysts warned.