The US carried out strikes on Islamic State-linked targets in north-west Nigeria over Christmas, in what both Washington and ...

After months of warning that the US could take military action to stop violence against Christians in Nigeria, President Donald Trump announced on Christmas Day that he had done just that – delivering ...

KANO, Nigeria – Suspected members of a radical Islamist sect attacked a town in north Nigeria and fought soldiers while trying to make their escape, leaving at least nine of them dead, the ...

JOS, Nigeria (AP) — Violence across central and north Nigeria killed 21 people, as gunmen attacked both security forces and civilians in a region where ethnic and religious tensions still simmer, ...

LAGOS, Nigeria - Residents fearfully left their homes Saturday to bury their dead in northeast Nigeria following a series of coordinated attacks that killed at least 67 people and left a new ...

LAGOS, Nigeria-- Al Qaeda's North Africa branch this week claimed the January abduction of a German hostage in north Nigeria, and provided a video of the terrified man begging for his life as ...

Seven foreign workers were kidnapped from a construction camp The gunmen attacked a local prison and burned police trucks before going to the camp Foreign hostage situations are common in Nigeria%2C ...

KANO, Nigeria — A coordinated attack by a radical Islamist sect in north Nigeria’s largest city killed at least 143 people, a hospital official said Saturday ...

LAGOS, Nigeria-- First the police targeted the gay men, then tortured them into naming dozens of others who now are being hunted down, human rights activists said Tuesday, warning that such ...

BAUCHI, Nigeria (AP) -- Witnesses say an explosion has struck near a Catholic church in north Nigeria, a region under attack by a radical Islamist sect. An Associated Press journalist heard the ...