Excavations put in action by Israel to build a new bridge with the justification that the historical bridge in front of the Magharbeh Gate in Haram Al-Shareef in Jerusalem has been rendered useless, ...

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I condemn the actions of Boko Haram and its kidnapping of 200 girls. We stand with all local, national, and international voices and organizations demanding the girls’ immediate and safe return, and ...

The Niger army on Thursday said that it had killed a leader of the jihadist group Boko Haram in the Lake Chad basin, where the country borders Nigeria, Chad and Cameroon. Bakura was killed during a ...

Boko Haram, the Islamist extremist group already blamed for numerous horrific attacks in West Africa, posted a graphic video online Monday showing the apparent beheadings of two men who the group said ...

News came from northeast Nigeria on January 3rd that the Islamist terrorist group Boko Haram had attacked Baga, a fishing town of ten thousand people on the shores of Lake Chad that has been raided by ...

Boko Haram fighters have reportedly hoisted the Islamist group’s flag in a remote district in Niger State, Nigeria’s Middle Belt region, and seized the wives of fleeing residents, the state’s governor ...

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Long before ISIS militants beheaded Christians on a Libyan beach last week, Nigeria’s Boko Haram was carrying out similar atrocities 1,500 miles to the south. Now that ISIS is operating in northern ...