IBRAHIM ABDULAZIZ, Associated Press HARUNA UMAR, Associated Press YOLA, Nigeria (AP) — Islamic extremists are rampaging through villages in northeastern Nigeria, killing, burning and looting with...
(Bloomberg) — Nigeria’s military failed to protect civilians despite being warned of impending Islamist attacks on two northeastern towns where hundreds died this month, Amnesty...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist It has been deeply disturbing to hear and read suggestions that there is something inherently violent in Islam that...
MAIGUDURI, Nigeria (BBC.com)—Nigerian Islamist Boko Haram fighters have attacked the strategically important north-eastern city of Maiduguri, with dozens reported dead. Earlier on Sunday they captured the...
KADUNA, Nigeria (New York Times) — Boisterous crowds packed the streets for the retired general, while young men climbed lampposts, walls and billboards to glimpse his...
(BBC) – In all the glowing coverage of France’s 11 January march for Charlie, there was one omission which was understandable but revealing. No-one said it...
MOKI EDWIN KINDZEKA, Associated Press YAOUNDE, Cameroon (AP) — More than 10,000 panic-stricken Cameroonians are fleeing border regions with Nigeria’s Borno state for safer locations following...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist In the aftermath of the killings of staff at the Charlie Hebdo magazine in Paris, there has been near...
By Raynard Jackson NNPA Columnist With the recent terrorists attacks in Paris over a largely unknown satirical newspaper that poked fun at Islam and Mohammed,...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist What recently happened in Paris was more than a typical act of Islamic terrorism. No, this was the latest...
Faith Karimi and Amina Abubakar, CNN KANO, Nigeria (CNN)—The attackers sped into a Nigerian town with grenade launchers — their gunfire and explosions shattering the...
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (BBC)—At least 19 people have been killed and several injured by a bomb strapped to a girl reported to be aged about 10 in...
Dan Bilefsky and Maïa de la Baume, THE NEW YORK TIMES PARIS (The New York Times)—Prime Minister Manuel Valls declared Saturday that France was at war with...
Sadie Gurman, ASSOCIATED PRESS COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — Authorities on Friday released a composite sketch of the man they believe detonated an explosive near...
(The Washington Post) – As they went on their rampage, the men who killed 12 people in Paris this week yelled that they had “avenged the prophet.”...
(New York Times) – The French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo skewers people of all faiths and backgrounds. One cartoon showed rolls of toilet paper marked “Bible,” “Torah” and...
(PBS) TRANSCRIPT: JUDY WOODRUFF: The attacks in Paris were focused on a very different kind of newspaper, as we just heard. But, every day, traditional journalists are...
(BBC) – Nigeria’s militant Islamists have carried out a second attack on the key north-eastern town of Baga, an official has told the BBC. Boko Haram...
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Authorities are looking for a man who may have information about a homemade explosive that someone set off near the Colorado...
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters)—Gunmen abducted 40 boys and young men from a remote village in northeast Nigeria in a raid that residents and a security source...
TOM ODULA, Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A Kenyan court on Friday suspended eight sections of a new law which the government says is meant...
Allen McDuffee, THE ATLANTIC WASHINGTON (The Atlantic)—Former Central Intelligence Agency director Michael Hayden on Sunday rejected accusations that the agency lied about its use of...
Adamu Adamu and Michelle Faul, ASSOCIATED PRESS POTISKUM, Nigeria (AP) — A suicide bomber disguised in a school uniform detonated explosives at a high school...
DEB RIECHMANN, Associated Press BASSEM MROUE, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Al-Qaida is using U.S.-led coalition airstrikes in Syria as a reason to extend olive branches...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist I would wager that you have had this experience. It has happened to me on more than one occasion. I...
