Boko Haram
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Trump gives 'guns-a-blazing' warning to Nigeria over 'killing of Christians'. What does data say?
Explainers | Nov 02, 2025, 08:14 AM ISTNigeria is an African nation where the population is evenly divided between Muslims and Christians. Generally, the Muslims live in the country's north, while the south is dominated by the Christians.
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Boko Haram kills over 60 in midnight attack in this country; homes torched, families forced to flee
World | Sep 07, 2025, 07:54 AM ISTBoko Haram is Nigeria's homegrown jihadist militant group. It took up arms in 2009 to fight Western education and impose its radical version of Islamic law. The group split into two factions after the death of the group's longtime leader, Abubakar Shekau, in 2021.
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US declares Pahalgam attack mastermind TRF a terror group: Here's a look at other designated outfits
Explainers | Jul 18, 2025, 02:54 PM ISTThe Resistance Front is not the first organisation to have been placed on the list. Apart from TRF, many other terror groups are there that include Al-Shabaab, Boko Haram, along with terror groups Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), Hamas, Hezbollah, and Islamic Jihad Union.
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Chad: 96 rebels killed in Boko Haram attack, army says 17 soldiers martyred in counter-operation
World | Nov 11, 2024, 04:58 PM ISTAt least 17 Chadian soldiers were killed and 32 others wounded in clashes between the army and Boko Haram fighters on Saturday, the army's spokesman said, adding that 96 Boko Haram members were also killed.
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Nigeria: 100 killed as Boko Haram Islamic radicals opened fire on market, homes in deadliest attack
World | Sep 04, 2024, 04:58 PM ISTLocal media reported that the extremists claimed responsibility for the attack, saying it was in reprisal for villagers informing security operatives about their activities.
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Salman Khurshid's house set on fire amid uproar over new book on Ayodhya
India | Nov 15, 2021, 07:47 PM ISTOn Sunday, a petition was filed in the Delhi High Court seeking direction to stop the publication, circulation, and sale of former Union Minister Salman Khurshid's book for its alleged remarks on Hindutva.
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BJP slams Salman Khurshid for comparing Hindutva to ISIS, Boko Haram in new book
India | Nov 11, 2021, 11:13 AM ISTCongress leader Salman Khurshid in his book 'Sunrise Over Ayodhya: Nationhood in Our Times' said that Sanatan dharma and classical Hinduism known to sages and saints were being pushed aside by a robust version of Hindutva, by all standards a political version similar to the jihadist Islam of groups like ISIS and Boko Haram of recent years.
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Boko Haram attack kills 15, wounds 83 in northern Nigeria
World | Apr 02, 2018, 05:57 PM ISTNigerian military authorities say at least 15 people, including a soldier, have died and 83 others have been injured in an attack by Boko Haram insurgents on two villages in northern Nigeria.
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'ISIS, Boko Haram using sex slaves to lure militants, sex trafficking to fund operations'
World | Oct 10, 2017, 09:55 PM ISTThe promotion of sexual violence by the extremist group was a vital means of “attracting, retaining, mobilising and rewarding fighters” as well as punishing disbelievers
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Boko Haram favours women, children as suicide bombers: Study
World | Aug 10, 2017, 01:46 PM ISTBoko Haram's use of women as bombers increased following the abduction of 276 female students aged between 16 and 18 from their school dormitories in Chibok in April 2014, according to the study.
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Nigeria: 82 Chibok girls freed in prisoner swap with Boko Haram
World | May 07, 2017, 08:51 AM IST82 Chibok girls have been freed in exchange for detained suspects with Boko Haram, Nigeria's government announced early Sunday.
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Nigeria: More than 100 refugees ‘mistakenly’ killed in an operation against Boko Haram
World | Jan 17, 2017, 11:59 PM ISTIn a shocking incident, a Nigerian Air Force fighter jet that was on mission against Boko Haram extremists on Tuesday mistakenly bombed a refugee camp, killing more than 100 refugees. A Red Cross worker said
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Boko Haram leader asks ‘fighters to kill, slaughter and detonate bombs everywhere
World | Dec 31, 2016, 08:51 PM ISTA top leader of Nigeria’s Islamist militant group, Boko Haram, has released a new video, asking ‘fighters’ to ‘kill, slaughter and abduct ... and detonate bombs everywhere (in the world)’. In the footage, the militant
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Boko Haram teaching children as young as 13 to rape hostages and ‘have fun’
World | Dec 30, 2016, 02:01 PM ISTIn an astounding revelation, child soldiers fleeing Nigeria’s militant Islamist group Boko Haram have said that the jihadist group was teaching children as young as 13 how to rape their hostages.
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Terror group Boko Haram has no place to hide, claims Nigeria's President
World | Dec 24, 2016, 09:18 PM ISTNigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari on Saturday declared that the extremist group Boko Haram was finally crushed by the Nigerian army in the vast northeastern Sambisa forest that was its stronghold. His victorious statement came as
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Over 75,000 children could starve to death in Nigeria due to Boko Haram, warns UN
World | Sep 29, 2016, 09:28 PM ISTDue to conditions created by dreaded terror outfit Boko Haram in Nigeria, as many as 75,000 children will die over the next year in famine-like conditions, the UN Children’s Fund has warned. That’s far
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Terror: India fourth worst-affected country, Maoists fourth deadliest outfit, says reports
India | Sep 16, 2016, 11:10 AM ISTIndia witnessed a total of 791 terror attacks in 2015, of which 43 per cent were carried out by Naxalites, in which 289 people died.
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Nigeria: Air raid 'fatally wounds' Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau, says military
World | Aug 23, 2016, 06:53 PM ISTNigeria's military on Tuesday said that Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau is believed to have been fatally wounded in an airstrike while he was praying in a forest stronghold.
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Islamic State announces Abu Musab al-Barnawi as new leader of Nigeria’s Boko Haram
World | Aug 04, 2016, 12:57 PM ISTThe Islamic State has announced Abu Musab al-Barnawi as the new leader of West African terror group Boko Haram, which pledged allegiance to the ISIS last year. The announcement came in an interview published Wednesday
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Two Indian nationals allegedly kidnapped in Nigeria
India | Jul 01, 2016, 01:50 PM ISTVisakhapatnam: Suspected terrorists have kidnapped two Indian nationals from Gboko, a town in the Benue state of north-central Nigeria, family members of one of them said in Visakhapatnam on Friday. Mangipudi Sai Srinivas who