Nigeria’s home-grown Boko Haram group drew international condemnation when its fighters kidnapped 276 schoolgirls from a boarding school in northeast Chibok town last year.

This BBC map situates Boko Haram’s region near those where drug traffickers and fellow Islamic extremists do their dirty work. 8. Boko Haram isn’t far from a major al-Qaeda branch. BBC.

The map above shows the scale of the upheaval, mostly concentrated around Boko Haram's power base in Borno state, which shares porous borders with Chad, Cameroon and Niger.

Changing tactics, Boko Haram begins to assault and seize larger towns and cities — some with populations of more than 250,000, roughly the size of Buffalo or Reno, Nev. The military is often ...

Amnesty International releases satellite images it says show the “horrific scale” of the devastation by Boko Haram militants in and around Baga, Nigeria.

Boko Haram, the jihadist group that's terrorized northern Nigeria, killed over 6,000 people in 2014 and ransacked over a dozen communities along the Nigerian side of Lake Chad in mid-January. The ...

Anti-Western jihadist group Boko Haram has been terrorizing Nigeria for about a decade, killing thousands of people and jeopardizing Africa's largest oil industry. The group, whose name means ...

But the capture of the schoolgirls on April 14 from their school in Chibok put Boko Haram on the international map. Related Stories. Two Explosions Kill 46 in Nigerian City of Jos.

Nearly 300 Nigerian school girls were kidnapped by the terrorist group Boko Haram on April 14, but it took two weeks for the story to go viral on Twitter. The rest of the world’s media was slow ...

Details about Boko Haram's recent attacks on villages in northeastern Nigeria have been hard to come by. A researcher for Amnesty International explains why.