Senior military commanders have described stories in major international media and culled by local newspapers reporting that Nigeria is deploying hundreds of mercenaries against Boko Haram terrorists as a joke...
By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS - African states want the United Nations to set up a trust fund to finance a force to fight Boko Haram in Nigeria and called...
BEIRUT - The leader of the Islamic State militant group that controls tracts of Syria and Iraq has accepted a pledge of allegiance from Nigerian Islamists Boko Haram, his spokesman...
By Madjiasra Nako and Beau-Bernard Fonka Mutta N'DJAMENA/YAOUNDE - Much of the Chadian force fighting Boko Haram in Nigeria has withdrawn to Cameroon and is deploying further south, Chadian soldiers...