Both groups have been fighting each other since ISWAP split from Boko Haram in 2016 and pledged allegiance to the Islamic State. Abubakar Shekau, a former idiosyncratic leader of JAS, had ...

A notorious bandit leader operating around the Narewo River bank in Kachia LGA of Kaduna has been ambushed and killed by a ...

Both groups have been fighting each other since ISWAP split from Boko Haram in 2016 and pledged allegiance to the Islamic State. Abubakar Shekau, a former idiosyncratic leader of JAS, had ...

The split was driven by deep ideological differences, particularly surrounding the leadership of Abubakar Shekau, the former leader of Boko Haram, who had previously sworn allegiance to ISIS ...

They first arrived in (Niger State) on a market day in 2020, preaching to our children to abandon our ways of worship and embrace theirs." ...

Both groups have been fighting each other since ISWAP split from Boko Haram in 2016 and pledged allegiance to the Islamic State. A former idiosyncratic leader of JAS, Abubakar Shekau, had in 2015 ...

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The sect’s membership has swollen with the defection of hundreds of Boko Haram fighters under Shekau. The Nigerian Army has repeatedly claimed that insurgency had been largely defeated and ...

Nearly 1,500 students have been kidnapped from their schools in Nigeria since 2014 when Boko Haram, under the leadership of idiosyncratic Abubakar Shekau, kidnapped more than 200 girls in Chibok, a ...