Boko Haram fighters have reportedly hoisted the Islamist group's flag in a remote district in Niger State, Nigeria's Middle Belt region, and seized the wives of fleeing residents, the state's governor ...

DAMASAK, Nigeria, March 19 (Reuters) - Graffiti and Boko Haram's black and white flags were all that remained of the Islamists in Damasak after troops from Chad and Niger seized the town in ...

DIKWA, Nigeria (Reuters) - A black and white Boko Haram flag still flutters on top of a deserted villa in the Nigerian town of Dikwa, overlooking a courtyard filled with dirty mattresses and charred ...

Chadian soldiers display a Boko Haram flag for the benefit of the press in the Nigerian city of Damasak, Nigeria, Wednesday, March 18, 2015. Damasak was flushed of Boko Haram […] Chadian soldiers ...

Maj.-Gen. Lucky Irabor, the Theatre Commander of Operation Lafiya Dole, said this while giving newsmen update on “Operation Rescue Final’’ in Maiduguri. “We believe that the Holy Book and the flag ...

DAMASAK, Nigeria (Reuters) - "Boko Haram is finished" shouted a jubilant soldier from Niger as his comrades danced and waved their rifles in the air to celebrate the liberation of the northern ...