TEHRAN, April 13 -The United Nations (UN)’s children’s agency has slammed the repeated attacks by the Daesh-linked Boko Haram terrorist group against children in Nigeria, announcing that at least 1,000 children have been abducted in the African country since 2013.
TEHRAN, April 03 - Five Cameroonian soldiers have been killed in an attack on a military post in the far north of the country, sources told AFP on Tuesday.
TEHRAN, March 26 - At least five civilians were killed and several others wounded in an attack by suspected Boko Haram militants in southeast Niger, near the border with Nigeria, according to local sources.
TEHRAN, March 22 - The majority of 110 schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram terrorist group last month were released from captivity in the northeastern province of Yobe on Wednesday.
TEHRAN, March 13 - Nigeria plans to negotiate with Daesh-linked Boko Haram terrorists to secure the release of the schoolgirls abducted by the group in 2014 as well as last month, after discussing the plan with the United States’ visiting secretary of state.
TEHRAN, March 4 - The United Nations (UN) has stopped its relief operations in northeastern Nigeria following an attack by suspected Boko Haram militants that left three humanitarian workers dead and at least three others missing.
TEHRAN, February 22 -Dozens of schoolgirls are feared to have been abducted by members of the Boko Haram armed group after their school in northeastern Nigeria was attacked this week.
TEHRAN, February 21 - More than 90 Nigerian schoolgirls are feared missing after insurgent group Boko Haram attacked a village in the northeastern state of Yobe, two sources told Reuters on Wednesday.
TEHRAN, February 20 - Takfiri Boko Haram militants have attacked a village in northeast Nigeria, unsuccessfully attempting to kidnap girls at a boarding school there.
TEHRAN, February 20-Takfiri Boko Haram militants have attacked a village in northeast Nigeria, unsuccessfully attempting to kidnap girls at a boarding school there.
TEHRAN, February 18 - A Nigerian court has released 475 people allegedly affiliated with Boko Haram for rehabilitation, the justice ministry said on Sunday, as the country’s biggest legal investigation of the militant insurgency continues.
TEHRAN, February 17- Some 19 people have been killed and dozens more wounded when three bombers blew themselves up in Nigeria’s northeastern Borno State, the hardest hit by Daesh-inspired Boko Haram militancy.
TEHRAN, September 2 - Suspected Takfiri Boko Haram militants have killed at least 18 people in northeastern Nigeria near the border with Cameroon in the latest surge of lethal assaults by the terror outfit in the restive region, local sources say.
The United Nations World Food Programme has sounded the alarm for millions of people who are at risk of dying from starvation in the militant-infested northeastern region of Nigeria.
KANO, Nigeria, Feb 14, 2015 (AFP) - Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan appealed for more US help in fighting Boko Haram, as the Islamists struck again on Saturday and called for a boycott of upcoming general elections.
ABUJA, Feb 8, 2015 (AFP) - Nigeria has postponed its presidential election on security grounds as the Boko Haram conflict intensifies, handing a potential lifeline to the ruling party as it battles a tough challenge from the opposition.
ALONG with a billion Muslims across the globe, I turn to Mecca in Saudi Arabia every day to say my prayers. But when I visit the holy cities of Mecca and Medina, the resting place of the Prophet Muhammad, I am forced to leave overwhelmed with anguish at the power of extremism running amok in Islam’s birthplace. Non-Muslims are forbidden to enter this part of the kingdom, so there is no international scrutiny of the ideas and practices that affect the 13 million Muslims who visit each year.