Suspected militants from Boko Haram radical group have abducted dozens of boys and men in a raid on a remote village in northeast Nigeria, loading them onto trucks and driving them off, witnesses have said.
Fears about extremism are rising in nations from the Middle East and North Africa to South Asia, according to a new poll.
An attack on churches in northeast Nigeria blamed on Boko Haram killed more than 50 people, an official said on Monday, overshadowing festivities ahead of a last-16 World Cup match against France.
A bomb blast at a public health college in Nigeria's second city of Kano killed at least eight people on Monday, in the latest violence to hit an area repeatedly attacked by Boko Haram.
Nigerian notorious militants killed 48 villagers in northeastern Nigeria near the town where they kidnapped 300 schoolgirls.
Iran says countering extremism and terrorism in the world needs a close cooperation among all countries, especially the Muslim states.
Countries neighboring Nigeria are ready to wage war against the Nigeria-based, al-Qaeda-linked group, Boko Haram, Chad's president says.
US First Lady Michelle Obama has attempted to show support for the 274 schoolgirls kidnapped in Nigeria, but several people have quickly subverted her message and turned it into an anti-drone campaign.
The war in Syria is driving one family from their home every minute, pushing the number of people internally displaced by conflict to record highs globally, a report says.
Boko Haram militants have released a video claiming to show the missing Nigerian schoolgirls, offering a prisoner swap deal to release the girls.
Former United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has come under fire for refusing demands to list Nigeria-based Boko Haram as a terrorist group.
The UN Security Council has expressed outrage at the abduction of hundreds of Nigerian school girls in two attacks by extremist militants, demanding their immediate release and threatening to take action.
Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau has vowed to sell hundreds of schoolgirls abducted in northern Nigeria last month.
Hundreds of school girls who were kidnapped by militant groups in Nigeria, have reportedly been sold as wives for mass marriages.
At least 30 members of a wedding party are dead after being ambushed on a rural road in Borno State on north-eastern Nigeria, according to multiple media reports.
Around 40 students were killed in Nigeria’s north-east allegedly by militants from the extremist group Boko Haram. The well-armed insurgents broke into a college dorm at night and opened fire at young people while they were still asleep.
Boko Haram gunmen have opened fire in a college dormitory in northeast Nigeria as the students slept, killing at least 40 people.
Clashes between Nigeria's military and opposition group of Boko Haram in two northeastern towns have left at least 35 people dead, most of them insurgents, the army said on Monday.
Heavy fighting between Nigerian troops and insurgents has killed 187 people and injured 77 others, with massive blazes that raged after the clashes leaving nearly half the town destroyed.