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US President Donald Trump calls service members on Christmas Eve at the Mar-a-Lago resort on December 24, 2025, in Palm Beach, Florida. (TASOS KATOPODIS / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)
December 26, 2025, 5:59 am
Trump says US struck ISIS targets in Nigeria after group targeted Christians
US worked with Nigeria on strikes, which came after warnings from US president that West African country doing too little to combat anti-Christian persecution
By Will Weissert
A Muslim woman prays during an event to mark the 10th anniversary of the kidnapping of students from Government Girls Secondary School Chibok by Boko Haram, in Lagos, Nigeria, April 14, 2024. (AP/Sunday Alamba)
May 26, 2025, 10:13 am
Netanyahu compares October 7 hostages to girls kidnapped by Boko Haram
PM recorded telling families Israel doing more than any other country to return its abducted citizens, but mass kidnappings are not unique to Hamas
By ToI Staff
An woman touches photos of Israelis missing and held captive in Gaza, displayed on a wall in Tel Aviv, on Oct. 21, 2023 (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
November 16, 2023, 1:30 pm
Counterterrorism expert: Hamas mass abduction event may lead to global copycat attacks
Israel historically serves as a ‘guinea pig’ for acts of terror, says Reichman University’s Prof. Boaz Ganor. ‘What is different this time is the scale of the abduction’
By Tal Schneider
Nigeria's Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau in a video from May 12, 2014. (AP Photo/File)
June 6, 2021, 11:28 pm
Boko Haram leader is dead, rival jihadists confirm
Abubakar Shekau ‘preferred to be humiliated in the hereafter to getting humiliated on Earth. He killed himself instantly by detonating an explosive,’ rival leader says
By AFP
Israeli soldiers of the IDF Givati brigade attend an army exercise in the southern Judean desert, June 6, 2012. (Moshe Shai/ FLASH90 /Flie)
March 11, 2021, 4:48 am
Is Israel burying its head in sand as climate change makes Mideast a hot mess?
Drought, sea-level rise and other environmental factors could destabilize the region, but Israel’s defense establishment is not thinking about the new dangers, a new paper warns
By Sue Surkes
The sign post of Government Girls Junior Secondary School in Jangebe, following an attack by gunmen in Jangebe, Nigeria on Feb. 25, 2021. (AP/ Ibrahim Mansur)
February 26, 2021, 11:41 pm
In latest mass kidnapping, gunmen abduct 317 girls from Nigerian boarding school
Police and military begin joint operations to rescue children; residents say attackers also assaulted army base to prevent them from intervening
By Sam Olukoya
In this February 18, 2020, file photo, Nigerian Navy Special Boat Service troops exercise under the supervision of British special forces during US military-led annual counterterrorism exercise in Thies, Senegal. (AP Photo/Cheikh A.T. Sy, File)
April 2, 2020, 1:48 pm
Islamic terror groups see opportunity in global chaos from virus
Al-Qaeda, Islamic State view pandemic both as threat and as opening to recruit and to strike harder, taking advantage of armies busy fighting a silent enemy
By Agencies
Illustrative: People gather at the site of an attack in Maiduguri, Nigeria, on November 1, 2018, after dozens of attackers overpowered soldiers guarding the camp and fighting continued for about two hours. (AP Photo/Jossy Ola)
July 27, 2019, 11:18 am
After 10 years of Boko Haram violence, Nigerians crave peace
Decades-long insurgency by Islamic extremist group has left tens of thousands dead, displaced millions and wreaked havoc on Nigeria’s north
By ISMAIL ALFA ABDULRAHIM and Haruna Umar
A man inspects rubble after a Saudi-led coalition airstrike in Sanaa, Yemen, February 4, 2018. (Hani Mohammed/AP)
June 28, 2018, 9:08 am
UN: 10,000 children killed, maimed in conflicts worldwide in 2017
Global body says attacks by Saudi Arabia and UAE responsible for half of the 1,300 child deaths or injuries in Yemen
By Verena Dobnik
Hassana Mohammed, 13, who scaled a fence to escape an attack on her Government Girls Science and Technical College, stands outside her home in Dapchi, Nigeria, on February 22, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / AMINU ABUBAKAR)
February 25, 2018, 8:12 pm
Parents release names of 105 missing Nigerian girls
Young students are believed to have been abducted as brides by Boko Haram jihadists
By Haruna Umar
Illustrative: Rescue workers offload a body from an ambulance following a suicide attack at a Market in Konduga outside Maiduguri, Nigeria Wednesday, Aug. 16, 2017. (AP Photo/ Jossy Ola)
February 17, 2018, 11:51 am
Trio of suicide bombers kill 19 in northeast Nigeria
Boko Haram jihadists detonate explosives at busy fish market in Konduga; another 22 people in critical condition
By AFP
A Pakistani walks in the main hall of a church following a suicide attack in Quetta, Pakistan, December 17, 2017. (Arshad Butt/AP)
January 8, 2018, 12:18 am
Worldwide suicide attacks on the wane, but more bombers than ever female
Tel Aviv study says global decrease in 2017 likely due to setbacks suffered by Islamic State; no bombings in Israel and West Bank, but 13 foiled;
By Judah Ari Gross
Illustrative: A picture taken on October 23, 2015 in Maiduguri, northeast Nigeria, shows people standing in a mosque following a suicide bombing. (AFP Photo/stringer)
November 21, 2017, 1:50 pm
Nigeria police say at least 50 killed in mosque bombing
While there is no immediate claim of responsibility, authorities suspect the Boko Haram terror group
By Sam Olukoya
Men carry a body after two car bombs exploded in Mogadishu on October 28, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / Mohamed ABDIWAHAB)
November 15, 2017, 5:01 pm
Terror attacks targeted more countries in 2016, but fewer killed
Study records 25,673 terrorism-related deaths in 77 countries; notes significant decreases in Syria, Pakistan, Afghanistan
By AFP and ToI Staff
Nigeria's Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau in a video from May 12, 2014. (AP Photo/File)
July 28, 2017, 12:04 pm
Boko Haram terrorists kill 48 in Nigeria
Extremist fighters attack geological surveyors prospecting for oil
By Haruna Umar
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