The Joint Military Operation in Niger Delta, Operation Delta Safe, has dismissed claims of responsibility by a militant group on…
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Nobel Laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka, has said that some Niger Delta militant groups had reached out to him in their…
Minister of state for petroleum resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, on Tuesday revealed how he received threats from a militant. Dr.…
The Inspector General of Police, Mr Solomon Arase, has said Mr Government ‘Tompolo’ Ekpemupolo, the Niger Delta Militant leader who…
The Ex-Niger Delta militant Asari Dokubo threw a get together party for his daughter, Habiba, who turned a year older…
REUBEN WILSON Scores of former Niger Delta militant leaders have accused the coordinator of the Federal Government’s amnesty programme in…
India’s new Prime Minister Narendra Modi called on his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif on Tuesday to crack down on militant groups while stressing his desire for closer economic ties, the foreign ministry said. Modi “underlined our concerns related…
The United States deployed 80 military personnel to Chad on Wednesday to help find 200 girls kidnapped by Boko Haram, as Nigeria probed its deadliest attack ever with the militant group the main suspect. In a letter to congress, US President Barack…
Britain said Nigeria’s deadliest ever bomb attack, which killed at least 118 people, would strengthen the international community’s resolve to defeat terror in Africa’s most populous nation. Islamist militant group Boko Haram was blamed for two car…
Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday asked the country’s parliament for a six-month extension to the state of emergency in three northeastern states riven by Islamist militant violence. “I most respectfully request the distinguished senators…
Boko Haram released a new video on Monday claiming to show the missing Nigerian schoolgirls and alleging the teenagers had converted to Islam and would not be released until all militant prisoners were freed. The group’s leader, Abubakar Shekau, speaks…
The death toll from twin jihadist bombings that struck a Shiite political rally in the Iraqi capital ahead of next week’s parliamentary election has risen to 33, officials said Saturday. Friday’s attack by a Sunni militant group came at the height of…
Nigerian Islamist militant group Boko Haram is still holding 85 girls it abducted from a raid on a secondary school in northeastern Borno state this week, although the other 44 were free, the state government said on Saturday. Monday’s mass abduction…
Fights broke out Saturday in the South African township of Soweto between supporters of the ruling ANC party and activists from the opposition Democratic Alliance, less than a month before general elections. Violence broke out after militant ANC supporters…
In Nigeria, Islamist militant group Boko Haram has killed thousands since it launched an uprising in 2009. Civilians are targeted almost daily and there are concerns that the violence will only escalate as the country gets close the 2015 elections.…
A Thai anti-government protester was shot dead and several others wounded Tuesday when their convoy was attacked on a busy expressway, officials said, reigniting tensions in Bangkok after weeks of relative calm. The victims, supporters of a militant…
A prison gun battle in Nigeria has left 21 people dead. Security officials say detainees suspected of being members of Islamist militant group Boko Haram overpowered their guards at a prison near Nigeria’s presidential villa in Abuja on Sunday, seizing…
Indian police Sunday said they had arrested a key terror suspect of the home-grown Islamist militant group the Indian Mujahideen, blamed for a string of deadly attacks across the country in recent years. The arrest comes as India is on high security…
Public secondary schools in northeast Borno state have been closed indefinitely following deadly attacks blamed on Boko Haram Islamists, teachers…
Three Palestinians were killed in the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank early Saturday after Israeli soldiers launched an operation to arrest a militant, Palestinian officials said. Medical and security sources said two of the fatalities were militants…