Since the public execution of Boko Haram's founder in 2009 by Nigerian security forces, a hard-line militant, Abubakar Shekau, has led this makeshift army of Islamist fighters through years of ...

Boko Haram, known for its contempt of Western education, has attacked schools, churches and mosques and used children as “suicide” bombers in its bid to establish an “Islamic state” in the ...

The Nigerian Army said it has successfully eliminated three high-ranking Boko Haram/ISWAP commanders during intense gun ...

Since its inception in 2009, Boko Haram has fought against Western education and sought to impose a radical version of ...

Boko Haram–related violence has largely been confined ... strain of Islam that rejects the secular state. This map only shows documented incidents within Nigeria that have been reported at ...