Tag Archives: Islamic State West Africa Province

Around 150 children are missing after armed men attacked a school in northwest Nigeria’s Kaduna state, a parent and an administrator told Reuters on Monday. Police said gunmen shooting wildly raided the Bethel Baptist High School in southern Kaduna state overnight. “They … overpowered the school’s security guards and made …

Ten people who had been held captive by terrorists were freed this week in northeast Nigeria’s Borno state, three security sources and two close associates of those released told Reuters. The people, including aid workers, had been taken by Boko Haram over the past year, the sources said. They were …

Seven people have been killed in attacks by Takfiri terrorists in Nigeria’s northeastern state of Borno. Late on Friday, terrorists raided a military post in the town of Gajiganna, triggering a fierce gunfight, local residents and pro-government militias said on Saturday. “The gunmen killed two soldiers and a civilian during …

Boko Haram terrorists have seized a military base in northeast Nigeria, days after an attack left five troops dead and 30 missings, security sources, and residents said Saturday. A column of fighters from the IS-affiliated Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) in trucks and on motorcycles stormed into the base …