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

The Niger army revealed it had killed Ibrahim Bakoura, a leader of the jihadist group Boko Haram in the Lake Chad basin, ...

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

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

Niger’s army has claimed to have killed Boko Haram leader Ibrahim Mahamadu, alias “Bakura”, without providing evidence, prompting caution from experts and a denial from the jihadist group.

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...