WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. has opened a mission for Somalia as part of its effort to normalize relations with the Eastern Africa nation, which continues...
MARTHA BELLISLE, Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — An anti-Muslim group cannot post ads on buses in Washington state showing photos of wanted terrorists and wrongly claiming...
MICHELLE FAUL, Associated Press LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Boko Haram has a new commander willing to negotiate with Nigeria’s new government, Chad’s President Idriss Deby announced...
EDWIN KINDZEKA MOKI, Associated Press YAOUNDE, Cameroon (AP) — Suspected Boko Haram fighters have killed at least 9 people and kidnapped dozens, including children and teenagers,...
AOMAR OUALI, Associated Press PAUL SCHEMM, Associated Press ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — Algeria is in the grips of political intrigue, as the president nears death and...
MICHELLE FAUL, Associated Press HARUNA UMAR, Associated Press MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — Nigerian soldiers rescued 71 people, almost all girls and women, in firefights that killed...
(BBC) – The US has “aided and abetted” the Boko Haram Islamist militant group by refusing to provide weapons to Nigeria, President Muhammadu Buhari says. A...
MATTHEW PENNINGTON, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari said Tuesday a multinational African force will be in place within 10 days to take...
(BBC) – An Islamic court has sentenced nine people to death for insulting the Prophet Muhammad in the northern Nigerian city of Kano. The accused, who...
(BBC) – Boko Haram militants have killed at least 40 people in north-eastern Nigeria, according to witnesses. The attacks on Monday and Tuesday took place in...
(BBC) – Chad’s military says it has carried out airstrikes in neighbouring Nigeria on suspected positions of militant Islamist group Boko Haram. The strikes were in...
IBRAHIM ABDULAZIZ, Associated Press YOLA, Nigeria (AP) — Two suicide bombers blew themselves up in the main market in Nigeria’s northeastern city of Yola, killing 29...
(BBC) – Nigeria’s army has sacked at least 200 soldiers for cowardice and failure to fight against Boko Haram militants, several soldiers have told the BBC....
(Reuters) – Iraq’s Shi’ite paramilitaries said on Tuesday they had taken charge of the campaign to drive Islamic State from the western province of Anbar,...
MICHELLE FAUL, Associated Press IBRAHIM ABDULAZIZ, Associated Press YOLA, Nigeria (AP) — The accusations against a woman who was rescued from Boko Haram abductors came from...
(Reuters) – The FBI warned police in Garland, Texas, about three hours before a shooting at a weekend exhibit of caricatures of the Prophet Mohammad...
(BBC) – Nigeria’s military says it has freed another sizeable group of people during its offensive against Boko Haram militants in the vast Sambisa forest. One...
ELIAS MESERET, Associated Press ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — More than 100,000 Ethiopians on Wednesday protested the killing of Ethiopian Christians in Libya and their own...
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — A leading human rights group said Thursday that Nigeria-based Boko Haram had killed more than 1,000 civilians already this year and forced hundreds of...
JAMEY KEATEN, Associated Press PAUL SCHEMM, Associated Press TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — The Islamic State group claimed responsibility Thursday for the attack that killed 21 people...
(Los Angeles Times) – President Obama has talked about the deadly dogma infiltrating some Muslim communities and decried the acts of terrorism carried out in...
(The Washington Post) – In a new study released Tuesday, the Pew Global Attitudes Project found that “concern about Islamic extremism is high among countries with substantial Muslim...
