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Soldiers in the northern Nigerian city of Kano killed four suspected members of Boko Haram Islamist sect in a raid on their hideout on Sunday, an army spokesman said. "We carried out an o

JALINGO, Nigeria — A motorcycle-riding suicide bomber drove into a convoy carrying a top police official in northeast Nigeria on Monday, detonating his explosives and killing at least 10 peop

KANO, Nigeria — Gunmen attacked worship services at a university campus and a church in northern Nigeria, killing at least 21 people in coordinated assaults that saw panicked Christians gunne

Suspected Boko Haram Islamists razed a police station and killed 14 people, whose bodies were found burned, in an overnight raid in Nigeria's northeastern city of Gombe, witnesses said Saturday

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria  — Police say suspected Islamic insurgents have killed five people in attacks on security targets in Nigeria's restive northeast.

KANO, Nigeria — Police say gunmen from a radical Islamist sect have attacked another police station, killing one officer in a north Nigeria city where they killed 185 people last week.