Since mid-February 2025, competing terrorist factions branching off from the Boko Haram organization have engaged in a new wave of armed conflict, just two weeks after the failure of an ...

Boko Haram, initially based in Nigeria, took up arms in 2009 to fight Western education and impose its radical version of ...

Niger has suspended its participation in the Multinational Joint Task Force, and Chad has threatened to withdraw. In March ...

The Islamic State-backed faction of Boko Haram, the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), formerly known as Jamā'at Ahl as-Sunnah lid-Da'wah wa'l-Jihād, has released a video showing the ...

According to the publication, the late bandit leader named himself Shekau—after the notorious Boko Haram leader who died in 2021. Zagazola said a rival group led by a bandit leader identified as ...

A notorious bandit leader, who adopted the name Shekau due to his notoriety, has been ambushed and killed by a rival faction in Kachia Local Government Area (LGA) of Kaduna State. Intelligence ...