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Boko Haram inflicted a final act of vengeance on a town in northern Nigeria, abducting up to 500 women and children as the gunmen fled a counter offensive, according to local people. The insurgents rounded up their victims as they evacuated Damasak in the face of an attack by Chad’s …

The head of a Shia militia brigade, fighting alongside government forces, said that IS militants still held about 70% of Tikrit’s town centre. The Shia leader expressed optimism that Tikrit would be “liberated,” even if it required street-to-street fighting. Soldiers and militiamen have reportedly retaken key sites, including a Police …

The factory was tucked inside a fertilizer company in Buni Yadi town in Yobe state, according to officials. Islamist fighters took over the town in August, one of many seized in the troubled northeast. Troops have battled the militants for months to regain control, and said they recaptured it last …

Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan says fighters from insurgent group Boko Haram have traveled to the Middle East for training with Islamic State militants. Jonathan declined to name the countries where the fighters were allegedly trained. But in an interview with VOA Wednesday, he said he’s long suspected Boko Haram of …

Freedom from the Islamic State group comes at a steep price, as one newly wedded couple recently discovered. Eager to live a normal life, away from the harsh dominion of the militants’ self-styled caliphate, the young pair is searching for ways to bypass the extremists’ newly-implemented departure taxes and escape …

Islamic State (IS) has accepted a pledge of allegiance from Nigeria’s militant group Boko Haram, according to an audio message. In the tape, which has not been verified, an IS spokesman says the aim of establishing a caliphate has now been expanded to West Africa. Last week, Boko Haram posted …