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

The army in Niger says it has killed a senior leader of Boko Haram in a targeted airstrike. State television reported ...

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

Niger's army has claimed to have killed Boko Haram leader Ibrahim Mahamadu, alias "Bakura", without providing evidence, ...

Strikes are latest by the Nigerian military as it battles resurgence of attacks by armed groups in country’s northeast.

The Niger army claims a targeted airstrike killed Ibrahim Bakoura, a senior Boko Haram leader. The group, which emerged from ...

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

A notorious leader of the Boko Haram insurgents, Ibrahim Mahamadu, popularly known as Bakura, has been killed in the Lake ...

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria -- Four Boko Haram suicide bombers killed 19 people in a series of attacks that targeted a civilian self-defense force and the people who gathered to mourn their deaths, police ...

Boko Haram’s seven-year Islamic uprising has killed more than 20,000 people, spread across Nigeria’s borders, driven some 2.3 million people from their homes and created a massive humanitarian ...

Boko Haram is a militant Islamic group that has existed for more than a decade in Nigeria, but it has become increasingly violent since an internal leadership change in 2009.

Nigeria’s information minister, however, downplayed the December 27 attacks and further reaffirmed that Boko Haram was on the precipice of being “wiped out.” ...