Sputnik- At least 31 people have been killed as result of a twin suicide blast in northeast Nigeria, AFP said, citing local officials. "There were two suicide attacks and rocket-propelled grenade explosions in Damboa last night which killed 31 people and left several others injured," the leader of the people's militia, Babakura Kolo, told the AFP....

Press TV- The ringleader of the Nigeria-based Boko Haram Takfiri terrorist group has urged the militants to beef up extreme violence against people, denying recent claims by the government that the group has been crushed. In a video posted on YouTube purportedly by Boko Haram on Friday, a man, standing in front of almost a dozen armed men and ...

Press TV- Nigerian President Muhammad Buhari says government troops have inflicted a heavy defeat on the Boko Haram Takfiri terrorist group bycapturingthe groups laststrongholdin the countrys northeast. I was told by the Chief of Army Staff that the camp fell at about 1:35 p.m. [local time] on Friday, December 23, and that the terrorists are ...

The Takfiri Boko Haram militants have released a new video purportedly showing some of the girls who they kidnapped from the Nigerian town of Chibok in 2014. In the footage released on Sunday, one of the militants claims that some of the girls are still alive, and the others were killed in airstrikes by the Nigerian air force on the Boko Haram ...

TEHRAN, Jul. 25 (MNA) Foreign Minister Zarif has met with his Nigerian counterpart during his tour of western African countries where he pledged support for countrys fight against terrorist groups of ISIL and Boko Haram. Javad Zarif and Geoffrey Onyeama, Nigerian counterpart met on Monday and discussed bilateral matters of interest including fighting ...

A bombing attack by the Takfiri Boko Haram terrorist group has killed at least 11 people in a mosque in Cameroon. Officials said on Thursday that the bombing had occurred the previous night, when an assailant detonated his explosives as people were breaking their fast at a mosque close to the Nigerian border. Four other people were injured ...

Alwaght- The popular uprisings of the recent years especially in North Africa, Libya and Nigeria have prepared the ground for flourishing of the terrorist groups like Boko Haram and Al-Shabaab, the Al-Qaeda affiliate in Africa. The political, cultural and geographic factors are seen to have a hand in growth and expansion of these terror groups. Nigeria ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) - Boko Haram extremists struck the northeast Nigerian city of Maiduguri for the first time in months Monday with rocket-propelled grenades and multiple suicide bombers, witnesses said. At least 15 people were killed but the toll was feared many times higher. Nigerian troops "intercepted and destroyed" 10 suicide bombers, according ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) Eight people were killed and 21 wounded in a suspected suicide bombing by Boko Haram early on Friday morning in Cameroon's Far North region, local officials said. The radical militant group's militancy has reportedly claimed tens of thousands of lives in northeastern Nigeria, and its attacks have spilled across the borders of neighboring ...

Tehran, Oct 24, IRNA Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Marziyeh Afkham condemned the bomb blasts in several mosques in Northeastern Nigeria which resulted in death and injury of over 150 worshippers. Afkham underlined the need for all-out fight against the extremism and extremist thoughts while condemning the terrorist attack in the African country....

Nigerian military says it has arrested a number of people in the countrys embattled northeastern state of Yobe, whowere purportedly transporting fuel andto Boko Haram Takfiri militants. "Following...directives to troops in the northeast for a painstaking search of motorists and cargoes, troops of the 3 Division Nigerian army have intercepted and ...

The United Nations has named June 19 as the International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict in a bid to end abuses against women and girls in conflict zones worldwide. The UN General Assembly on Friday approved the resolution, co-sponsored by 113 countries, and the day will be commemorated annually to raise awareness of the ...