Drastic cuts to humanitarian aid in north-eastern Nigeria could prove a boon to one of the world's most deadly militant ...

Let’s analyse the Boko Haram insurgency using Galula’s counterinsurgency manual. The Boko Haram war has festered because it is an irregular war that tanks and bullets alone can’t address. Have we ...

North East Joint Task Force's troops killed 17 Boko Haram terrorists during clearance operations in Borno and Adamawa states, says army spokesman - Anadolu Ajansı ...

Despite receiving some of the highest security budgets in Africa, Nigeria remains one of the most unsafe places on the continent.

Jihadist violence has displaced rural communities from Nigeria's northern agricultural heartland. Now, aid agencies warn that ...

Troops conducting counter-insurgency operations in Borno State have repelled a coordinated attack by suspected Boko Haram and ...

The operations, including fighting patrols, ambushes, clearance and logistics strangulation operations, stretched from ...

Efforts to reintegrate former Islamist militants are failing, residents of Nigeria's northeastern Borno state say, while ...

Nigeria’s N12.6trn defence spend since 2009 has failed to stop Boko Haram, with killings surging and grassroots groups ...

New evidence shows how JAS’ Shiroro cell adopts a flexible approach that tolerates local bandits and their vices. The Shiroro ...

Fulani herdsmen on Monday morning killed a Christian woman in a village in Plateau state, Nigeria, the latest of 17 ...