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

U.N. counterterrorism experts warn that Islamic State extremists are exploiting instability in Africa and Syria and remain a significant threat in Afghanistan, Central Asia and Europe ...

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

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

The Niger army says it killed Boko Haram leader Ibrahim Bakoura in an Aug. 15 airstrike in the Lake Chad region ...

The Niger army said in its statement that Bakura was targeted by a fighter jet early on August 15, calling him a "feared ...

A Nigeria court postponed on Tuesday the beginning of a highly anticipated trial over the killing of dozens of Catholic ...

The threat from Islamic State and al-Qaida extremists and their affiliates is most intense in parts of Africa, and risks are growing in Syria, which both groups view as a “a strategic base for ...

Rights groups are questioning a multimillion-dollar arms sale by the United States to Nigeria as security forces in the west ...

UNITED NATIONS — The threat from Islamic State and al-Qaida extremists and their affiliates ... Their report to the U.N. Security Council circulated Wednesday said West Africa's al-Qaida-linked ...

The United States launched a rare ground operation in northern Somalia that apprehended Abdiweli Mohamed Yusuf, the finance emir for the Islamic State’s so-called Somali Province. The raid was the ...