Hundreds of residents have been forced out of their homes as Boko Haram insurgents have attacked Judumri community in Jere local government area (LGA) of Borno. According to witnesses, sounds of gunshot rent the air on Saturday evening while the Muslim faithful were praying. The insurgents were said to have attempted to infiltrate Maiduguri but […]
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The Nigerian Air Force says the the Air Task Force (ATF) of Operation LAFIYA DOLE has destroyed a Boko Haram vehicle and neutralised scores of the insurgents at Tumbun Rego on the fringes of Lake Chad in Borno. Air Commodore Ibikunle Daramola, NAF Director of Public Relations and Information, who disclosed this in a statement […]
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The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has declared September 14, 2018 as a day of general strike, mourning and resistance across the South East and neigbouring states. The group said the decision was reached as a result of what it called “the ongoing campaign of ethnic and religious persecution, genocide and humiliation of the people […]
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Authorities said 38 people were killed and 37 others wounded in a series of bombings and attacks in the southern province of Sweida on Wednesday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said suicide bombers from the Islamic State (IS) detonated bomb vests and explosive devices in Sweida city in tandem with an attack by this […]
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Islamic State militants on Wednesday, captured and beheaded Taliban commander, Mullah Burjan, an Afghanistan government official said. “Amid ongoing fighting between Taliban and IS group in Darzab district the IS fighters captured Taliban senior commander Mullah Burjan early Wednesday and beheaded him,” Reza Ghafoori, spokesman of the northern Jawzjan province, told Xinhua. Ghafoori also said […]
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An American commando was killed Friday in an attack in southern Somalia that also wounded four US military personnel along with a Somali soldier, officials said. The attack occurred in Jubaland, where a large force comprising about 800 Somali, Kenyan and US troops were working to clear a large area of Al-Qaeda-aligned Al-Shabaab fighters. The […]
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The Nigerian Army on Saturday said four Boko Haram terrorists surrendered to troops of the Operation Lafiya Dole, operating around Kumshe and have been handed over to the headquarters of the Theatre Command Operation Lafiya Dole, in Maimalari Cantonment, Maiduguri. The terrorists, who claimed to be from the Abubakar Shekau faction, include three men, one […]
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The U.S. State Department is offering a five-million-dollar reward for information leading to Pakistani Taliban leader Mullah Fazlullah. The U.S. also announced a three-million-dollar reward each for two other senior leaders of militias linked to the Pakistani Taliban. The move is seen as another attempt by Washington to defuse tensions with the Pakistani government. The […]
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Not less 28 people have died in the terrorism attacks of Friday at the French embassy in Burkina Faso and the country’s military headquarters, before being repelled. Although a government source said 16 attackers and defenders died, the AFP learned unofficially that the attacks may have been bloodier than the official narrative, which earlier in the […]
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The federal high court, Kainji, Niger state, has sentenced a Boko Haram Commander, Abba Umar, to 60 years imprisonment for acts of terrorism. He was arraigned by the government on a five-count charge. At the court on Tuesday, Umar who was arrested after a failed suicide mission in Gombe in 2014, confirmed that the pictures presented […]
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