The latest Boko Haram kidnapping of female students sheds some light on the terrorist group’s current operational capacity and highlights President Muhammadu Buhari’s direct involvement in the matter.

Boko Haram has released a video demanding the release of all militants held by the government in exchange for the return of about 220 still-missing Nigerian girls, many of whom appear in the video ...

They were taken in the middle of the night, from a place where they should've felt the safest. On April 14, 2014, terrorist group Boko Haram kidnapped 276 schoolgirls from the town of Chibok, in ...

21 of the Schoolgirls Kidnapped by Boko Haram Reunite With Their FamiliesThe Nigerian government is reportedly negotiating for the release of 83 more. Schoolgirl Kidnapped by Boko Haram Gets a Hero’s ...

Boko Haram seized hundreds of children from a remote town in northeast Nigeria in late 2014 but initial calls to report the kidnapping were ignored with locals fearful of the government’s response, ...

Three weeks ago, over two hundred girls between ages 15 and 18 were kidnapped from their boarding school in northern Nigeria. Yesterday, Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau released a video in which he ...

At least 360 people kidnapped by Boko Haram jihadists from a mainly Muslim community in Nigeria's north-eastern Borno state in March have been freed from a remote mountain hideout.

The abduction of the girls sparked global outrage with international pressure piled on the then Goodluck Jonathan-led government to get them back. With the abduction happening seven years ago today, ...

There’s a devastating and beautifully photographed new story up at The New York Times about the Nigerian students who were freed from Boko Haram after being kidnapped by the group in 2014. And while ...

This is a guest post by Allen Grane, research associate for the Council on Foreign Relations Africa Studies program. Allen is an officer in the U.S. Army Reserves. From 2014 through the February/March ...