Local media reported that the extremists claimed responsibility for the attack, saying it was in reprisal for villagers informing security operatives about their activities.
On Sunday, a petition was filed in the Delhi High Court seeking direction to stop the publication, circulation, and sale of former Union Minister Salman Khurshid's book for its alleged remarks on Hindutva.
Congress leader Salman Khurshid in his book 'Sunrise Over Ayodhya: Nationhood in Our Times' said that Sanatan dharma and classical Hinduism known to sages and saints were being pushed aside by a robust version of Hindutva, by all standards a political version similar to the jihadist Islam of groups like ISIS and Boko Haram of recent years.
Nigerian military authorities say at least 15 people, including a soldier, have died and 83 others have been injured in an attack by Boko Haram insurgents on two villages in northern Nigeria.
The promotion of sexual violence by the extremist group was a vital means of “attracting, retaining, mobilising and rewarding fighters” as well as punishing disbelievers
Boko Haram's use of women as bombers increased following the abduction of 276 female students aged between 16 and 18 from their school dormitories in Chibok in April 2014, according to the study.
82 Chibok girls have been freed in exchange for detained suspects with Boko Haram, Nigeria's government announced early Sunday.
In a shocking incident, a Nigerian Air Force fighter jet that was on mission against Boko Haram extremists on Tuesday mistakenly bombed a refugee camp, killing more than 100 refugees. A Red Cross worker said
A top leader of Nigeria’s Islamist militant group, Boko Haram, has released a new video, asking ‘fighters’ to ‘kill, slaughter and abduct ... and detonate bombs everywhere (in the world)’. In the footage, the militant
In an astounding revelation, child soldiers fleeing Nigeria’s militant Islamist group Boko Haram have said that the jihadist group was teaching children as young as 13 how to rape their hostages.
Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari on Saturday declared that the extremist group Boko Haram was finally crushed by the Nigerian army in the vast northeastern Sambisa forest that was its stronghold. His victorious statement came as
Due to conditions created by dreaded terror outfit Boko Haram in Nigeria, as many as 75,000 children will die over the next year in famine-like conditions, the UN Children’s Fund has warned. That’s far
India witnessed a total of 791 terror attacks in 2015, of which 43 per cent were carried out by Naxalites, in which 289 people died.
Nigeria's military on Tuesday said that Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau is believed to have been fatally wounded in an airstrike while he was praying in a forest stronghold.
The Islamic State has announced Abu Musab al-Barnawi as the new leader of West African terror group Boko Haram, which pledged allegiance to the ISIS last year. The announcement came in an interview published Wednesday
Visakhapatnam: Suspected terrorists have kidnapped two Indian nationals from Gboko, a town in the Benue state of north-central Nigeria, family members of one of them said in Visakhapatnam on Friday. Mangipudi Sai Srinivas who
Thirty-two troops have been killed in a clash with Boko Haram fighters on Niger's border with Nigeria, Niger's defence ministry said today, one of deadliest tolls inflicted by the jihadists.
thousands of girls and women who've escaped Boko Haram's clutches, the message they've sometimes encountered at homecomings has been “Stay Away.”
Nigeria-based militant group Boko Haram is increasingly using children in suicide attacks. According to UNICEF, the Islamic extremists used four children in such attacks in 2014 and 44 in 2015.
Nigeria-based extremist group Boko Haram is increasingly using children in "suicide" attacks, a Unicef report released on Tuesday said.
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