He was injured during a gun battle with Boko Haram. (Akintunde Akinleye/Reuters) Analysis by Laura Seay This week in the African Politics Summer Reading Spectacular, we continue our focus on ...

A suicide bombing has killed at least 32 people and injured more than 80 at a market in the north-eastern Nigerian city of Yola. There was no immediate claim of responsibility, but the deadly ...

Sheikh Khalaf bin Mohammed Al Mutlaq, a member of the Fatwa Authority ... devices are violating Islam and this means such acts are haram (prohibited)…drivers must not do anything that will ...

The militant group Boko Haram has become a target of international outrage ever since it kidnapped more than 250 Nigerian schoolgirls last month. A leader of the group recently boasted in a video ...

Suspected members of the hardline Islamist group Boko Haram attacked a school in Damaturu, Nigeria, early Tuesday morning, burning or shooting 29 boys, but sparing the female students, news ...

GIVEN that it has killed 3,600 people over the past four years, Boko Haram gets surprisingly little attention outside its native Nigeria. Though it has an Islamist tinge and has often attacked ...

REUTERS - The Islamist sect Boko Haram carried out its deadliest assault in a single day, killing more than 100 people in coordinated bombings and shootings in Nigeria's second largest city of ...

It is a dietary law that comes from Islamic teachings in the Quran. Its opposite is haram, which means “not permitted.” Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle. Put simply ...

While the Islamic terrorist organization Boko Haram gained global infamy in 2014 for kidnapping nearly 300 female students in Nigeria, the group has also abducted 10,000 boys in the last three years.

Militant group's recent attack left as many as 2,000 dead, watchdogs say. — -- The militant group Boko Haram's latest attack in Nigeria has once again put the spotlight on the violence ...

The families of Chibok, Nigeria lived through that nightmare almost five years ago when the Islamic terrorist group Boko Haram - whose name roughly translates to "western education is forbidden ...

(Reuters) - The Islamist group Boko Haram says it was responsible for the abduction of hundreds of boys from a school in Katsina state in northwestern Nigeria, according to an audio message from a ...