Nigeria's military says it has used precision airstrikes to kill at least 35 Islamic militants in the country's northeast.

Niger's army said its soldiers killed a leader of the jihadist group Boko Haram in the Lake Chad basin, but experts cast ...

U.N. counterterrorism experts warn that Islamic State extremists are exploiting instability in Africa and Syria and remain a ...

The risk is that it rises into something much larger that then presents a much greater threat on the global scene,' one ...

As Boko Haram and the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) still hold sway, the scars of war continue to mar memory in northeastern Nigeria. It is against that background that the government ...

As the Islamic State is squeezed out of its self-proclaimed caliphate in the Middle East, its offshoot in West Africa, the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), appears to be growing even ...

Borno state has witnessed an upsurge in attacks by suspected Boko Haram and Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) assailants this year, raising concerns that the militants are making gains ...

Jubilation as 25 Islamic State West Africa Province ISWAP and Jama’atu Ahlis Sunna Lidda’awati wal-Jihad members have ...

July 21, 2025: The oil-rich west coast African nation of Nigeria continues to have problems with Islamic terrorist groups Boko Haram and especially the local Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant/ISIL ...

Militant Islamist groups have expanded their presence in Africa and more than doubled fatalities linked to violent activities ...

Islamic State (IS) killed 11 Nigerian soldiers in an attack on the northeastern town of Gajiganna, the group claimed through its news agency AMAQ on Saturday.