Girl held by Boko Haram: 'I'd have shot at rescuers'
(CNN)In February 2016, I interviewed 16-year-old Zara John, who was freed from Boko Haram by the Nigerian military in March 2015. She told me how much she relished her life with the Islamist militant...
View ArticleThe Latest: Iraqi troops capture key village outside Mosul
The Latest on the interconnected conflicts in Iraq and Syria (all times local): 3.00 p.m. Iraqi officials say troops have recaptured a key village outside the Islamic State-held city of Mosul after...
View ArticleKidnapped Nigerian schoolgirls identified in Boko Haram video
Three mothers of schoolgirls abducted from Chibok in northeast Nigeria two years ago said they had identified their daughters in a video released by Islamist group Boko Haram, the first possible...
View ArticleVideo appears to show some kidnapped Chibok girls alive
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — A schoolmate says she cried with joy when she saw a Boko Haram video appearing to show some of Nigeria's kidnapped Chibok girls, with images of tearful parents recognizing their...
View ArticleBoko Haram still a threat months after 'technical victory'
Here on the front line against Boko Haram, no one boasts of having "technically" won the war. More than four months after Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari made such a claim, the extremists still...
View ArticleBoko Haram Increasingly Using Child Suicide Bombers – Children Volunteering...
Boko Haram is increasingly using child suicide bombers. Horrifyingly, the children appear to be volunteering to die instead of facing a far worse fate. Boko Haram, the terrorist group active in West...
View ArticleChild bombers used by Boko Haram increase tenfold, UNICEF says
KANO, Nigeria — The number of child bombers used by the Islamic extremists of Boko Haram has increased from four to 44 in a year with devastating consequences in communities that now see children as...
View ArticleThe Child Suicide Bombers of Boko Haram
Boko Haram, the Islamist militant group that operates in Nigeria and other West African countries, is increasingly using children to carry out suicide attacks, Unicef, the UN children’s organization, ....
View Article#dnaEdit: The ISIS footprint
--> The ISIS is only too keen to adopt terror tactics to mark its presence in the south Asian jihadi theatre, but it is more of a fanciful, rather than a realistic, mission The declaration of the...
View ArticleAl-Shabaab child soldiers captured in Somalia firefight
(CNN)They came in from the beach, getting out of the wooden dhows they'd seized from fisherman around the Horn of Africa. Hundreds of Al-Shabaab fighters descended on the shores of Puntland, a...
View ArticleSoaring numbers of children used in Boko Haram suicide attacks, says Unicef
Across north-east Nigeria and neighbouring countries, 44 children were used in suicide attacks in 2015, three-quarters of them girls...
View ArticleBoko Haram send 'proof of life' video on Chibok girls: CNN
By Aminu Abubakar, with Phil Hazlewood in Lagos Soldiers from the Nigerian Army stand outside a school in Chibok on March 25, 2016. By Stefan Heunis (AFP/File) Kano (Nigeria) (AFP) - Boko Haram has...
View ArticleIraq village still reeling after bombing at youth soccer match
Ashwak Abdullah, mother of Karrar Abbas, standing with her husband, Abbas Ali, holds a portrait of their son, who was 13 years old when he was killed in the explosion on the soccer field in Asriya,...
View ArticleAlarming rise in child suicide bombers used by Boko Haram: UN
By Michel Cariou Nigerian soldiers inspect a burnt vehicle at the site of a suicide attack by the Boko Haram militant group in Maiduguri, northeast Nigeria on January 30, 2016. By (AFP/File) Libreville...
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Libreville // The number of children used by Nigeria's Boko Haram to stage suicide bombings has risen more than 10-fold in one of the most "horrific" aspects of the insurgency, the United Nations said...
View ArticleBoko Haram Is Using Children To Carry Out 1 In 5 Suicide Attacks
The terrorist group Boko Haram used children to carry out almost one-fifth of its suicide attacks, a new report reveals. The number of children used in suicide bombings went from four in 2014 to 44 in...
View ArticleIraqi village grieves for boys lost in suicide bombing
ASRIYA, Iraq — The suicide bomber who blew up a youth soccer match late last month left barely a dent in the hard, dry earth, a faint scorch on a concrete wall nearby. But he gouged a chasm of grief in...
View Article‘Let’s not give up,’ Boko Haram escapee pleads
WASHINGTON — As Boko Haram Islamic extremists drove the Nigerian girl and her classmates away from their school in the dark of night, she prayed for their lives. Then she leaped from the pickup truck...
View ArticleNigerian Army Repels Boko Haram Attack – Saves 455 People
The Nigerian army managed to save the lives of 455 people who were being held hostage by the militant Islamist group Boko Haram on Friday while also fending off attacks by Boko Haram insurgents,...
View Article10 Must-Reads For Understanding Boko Haram’s War On Women
Two years ago, the Islamist militant group Boko Haram kidnapped nearly 300 girls from a boarding school in northeast Nigeria. The world called out for their return, and the hashtag #BringBackOurGirls...
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