Nigeria’s push into Boko Haram’s forest stronghold fraught with risk. ... The forest is about 60 miles from the village of Chibok, where 276 schoolgirls were kidnapped last year.

KANKARA, Nigeria, Dec 14 (Reuters) - Usama Aminu was one of the lucky ones. He managed to escape when gunmen abducted more than 300 pupils from his school in northwestern Nigeria. "When I decided ...

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria-- Twin car bombs at a bustling city marketplace blasted buildings to rubble and tore apart bodies the same night an attack on a farming village razed every thatched-roof hut. At ...

The almost 300 schoolgirls kidnapped in Nigeria may be captives in what one local newspaper has called the evil forest, a mysterious corner of the country dotted with tents and lined with tunnels ...

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — Hundreds of hostages, mostly children and women, who were held captive for months or years by Boko Haram extremists in northeastern Nigeria have been rescued from a ...

Nigerians express outrage over missing girls 10 photos. LAGOS, Nigeria -- After carrying out a mass rescue of 200 girls and 93 women from the forest stronghold of an Islamic insurgent group ...

At least 45 people were killed in retaliatory attacks by armed bandits in a remote village in northwest Nigeria, police said. The attack occurred on Saturday at Gwaska village in Birnin Gwari, ...

Gunmen suspected to be ethnic Fulani herdsmen invaded a farming village in restive central Nigeria's Benue State, burning several houses, police said Saturday, amid reports that at least 20 people ...

Gunmen in north-central Nigeria killed at least 50 people in attacks on Wednesday. The assailants opened fire in a market in Umogidi village in Benue state.