Forty-four people in Nigeria have been sentenced to up to 30 years in prison for financing the jihadist militant group Boko Haram. The trials of 10 other people have been postponed, the country’s ...

Nigeria resumed trials of the suspects seven years after it suspended prosecution of over 1,000 people suspected of ties with ...

Islamic extremists have killed nine people and injured four in northeastern Nigeria's Borno state, authorities report.

Troops of Operation Hadin Kai killed 24 Boko Haram terrorists and recovered weapons during series of coordinated offensive operations across the North East.

Tension gripped parts of Yobe State on Friday after four residents were whisked away by armed men suspected to be members of ...

The smile on Saminu Wakili's face does not tell his real story. His white shirt, white band, black suit, black robe, and wig ...

Boko Haram is not known to have any formal connections to al Qaeda and, more specifically, its Yemen-based affiliate AQAP, which claimed responsibility for the latest attacks in Paris.

View CNN’s Fast Facts on Boko Haram and learn more about the militant Islamic group based in Nigeria, whose purpose is to institute Sharia, or Islamic law.

Boko Haram's use of female suicide bombers is unprecedented in its scale. Sri Lanka's Tamil Tigers, a militant group known for its female attackers, conducted 46 suicide bombings led by women over ...

Boko Haram kidnap victim: Stigmatized for carrying captor’s baby. Fati is now in the relative safety of the Minawao refugee camp in Cameroon. When Boko Haram started raiding the border towns ...

She was forced into marriage with a Boko Haram militant in a camp for two months before she was rescued by the Nigerian military. In this photo taken September 14, 2015, ...